{"id":28805,"date":"2016-08-10T23:04:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T06:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/what-makes-the-spin-flip-over"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:26:26","slug":"what-makes-the-spin-flip-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/what-makes-the-spin-flip-over","title":{"rendered":"What makes the spin flip over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-makes-the-spin-flip-over.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Einstein-de-Haas effect shows that magnetism results from the angular momentum of electrons and is considered as the macroscopic evidence of electron spin. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at the Institut N\u00c9EL at the CNRS in Grenoble were the first to investigate this effect for an individual spin and formulated it as the new \u201cQuantum Einstein-de-Haas effect\u201d. In Nature Communications, they report on their work (\u201cQuantum Einstein-de Haas effect\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-makes-the-spin-flip-over.jpg\" alt=\"The mechanical properties of the carbon nanotube (black)  cause the spin (orange)  of a molecule (green and red)  to flip over\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mechanical properties of the carbon nanotube (black) cause the spin (orange) of a molecule (green and red) to flip over. (Illustration: Christian Grupe) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=44208.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=44208.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Einstein-de-Haas effect shows that magnetism results from the angular momentum of electrons and is considered as the macroscopic evidence of electron spin. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at the Institut N\u00c9EL at the CNRS in Grenoble were the first to investigate this effect for an individual spin and formulated it as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66630,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28805\/revisions\/66630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}