Using magnetic fields to control newly identified state of matter could enable more efficient memory devices

Friday, September 9, 2011 - 09:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Scientists in Japan have shown that the properties of a recently discovered state of matter—a chiral spin liquid—can be controlled by applying a magnetic field1, a concept that could be harnessed for low-energy-consumption memory devices .

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