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.