Researchers find a way to stabilize the magnetic moment of a single holmium atom

Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 10:00 in Physics & Chemistry

(Phys.org) —A team of physicists working at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a way to cause the magnetic moments of individual holmium atoms placed on a conductive metallic base to survive for several minutes. The team describes their procedure in their paper published in the journal Nature.

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