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Researchers Discover New Third Class of Magnetism that Could Transform Digital Devices (www.nottingham.ac.uk)

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A new class of magnetism called altermagnetism has been imaged for the first time in a new study. The findings could lead to the development of new magnetic memory devices with the potential to increase operation speeds of up to a thousand times.

Altermagnetism is a distinct form of magnetic order where the tiny constituent magnetic building blocks align antiparallel to their neighbours but the structure hosting each one is rotated compared to its neighbours.

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[–] adespoton 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks! That’s exactly what I was looking for.