Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a surprising mathematical connection between two areas of condensed ...

Skyrmions, in which electron spins inside a magnet are arranged like vortices, are a key structure in next-generation spintronics technology. KAIST researchers have shown that skyrmions can form using ...

The relationship between friction and load, quantified three centuries ago, has an exception when the interaction causes ...

Physicists show that magnetoelastic coupling, present in nearly all magnets, can generate skyrmion arrays without crystal ...

A material thought to be a quantum spin liquid actually exhibits a newly identified magnetic state caused by competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions. Materials that enter a quantum ...

Artificial intelligence is colliding with a hard physical limit: the energy and heat of today’s silicon-based chips. As models grow from billions to trillions of parameters, the bottleneck is no ...

Engineers have discovered an unexpected link between two very different realms of physics: the behavior of electrons in ...

A new magnetic material called a p-wave magnet uses helical electron spin patterns that deflect electric current, enabling smaller and more efficient computer chips. (Nanowerk News) Magnetism, as we ...

The discovery of new quantum materials with magnetic properties are believed to pave the way for ultra-fast and considerably more energy efficient computers and mobile devices. So far, these types of ...

Organic magnetic materials represent an exciting frontier where the versatility of organic chemistry converges with the phenomena of magnetism. These materials, characterised by π‐conjugated systems ...

MP Materials could be a game-changer in the rare-earth industry as the U.S. looks to secure domestic sources of these crucial ...

MP Materials has chosen Northlake, Texas, for its $1.25 billion rare earth magnet factory as the U.S. rushes to secure domestic supplies of critical minerals.