{"id":94262,"date":"2019-07-30T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/light-may-magnetise-non-magnetic-metals-propose-physicists"},"modified":"2019-07-30T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:03:55","slug":"light-may-magnetise-non-magnetic-metals-propose-physicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/light-may-magnetise-non-magnetic-metals-propose-physicists","title":{"rendered":"Light may magnetise non-magnetic metals, propose physicists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-may-magnetise-non-magnetic-metals-propose-physicists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, have devised a method to turn a non-magnetic metal into a magnet using laser light.<\/p>\n<p>Magnets and their magnetic field are typically produced by circulating currents, like those found in everyday electromagnetic coils. The \u2018handedness\u2019 of these coils\u2014whether they are wound in clockwise or anticlockwise fashion\u2014determines the direction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic field<\/a> produced.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists theorise that when non-magnetic metallic disks are illuminated by linearly polarised light\u2014light that does not possess any handedness of its own\u2014circulating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+currents\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric currents<\/a> and hence magnetism can spontaneously emerge in the disk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, have devised a method to turn a non-magnetic metal into a magnet using laser light. Magnets and their magnetic field are typically produced by circulating currents, like those found in everyday electromagnetic coils. The \u2018handedness\u2019 of these coils\u2014whether they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94262","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}