News articles tagged with 'magnetism'
Heavy metals open path to high temperature nanomagnets
— 29 Mar 2011 15:43 | TechnologyHow would you like to store all the films ever made on a device the size of an I-phone? Magnets made of just a few metallic atoms could make it possible to build radically smaller storage…
Enhancing the magnetism
— 19 Mar 2011 14:49 | Physics'The nation that controls magnetism will control the universe,' famed fictional detective Dick Tracy predicted back in 1935. Probably an overstatement, but there's little doubt the…
Study probes link between magnetism, superconductivity
— 14 Dec 2010 20:15 | PhysicsEuropean and U.S. physicists this week are offering up the strongest evidence yet that magnetism is the driving force behind unconventional superconductivity. The findings by researchers…
One-dimensional window on superconductivity, magnetism
— 30 Sep 2010 13:17 | PhysicsA Rice University-led team of physicists is reporting the first success in a three-year effort to build a precision simulator for superconductors using a grid of intersecting laser…
Many roads lead to superconductivity
— 11 Sep 2010 11:19 | TechnologySince their discovery in 2008, a new class of superconductors has precipitated a flood of research the world over. Unlike the previously familiar copper ceramics (cuprates), the basic…
Magnetism's subatomic roots
— 4 Sep 2010 10:39 | PhysicsThe modern world - with its ubiquitous electronic devices and electrical power - can trace its lineage directly to the discovery, less than two centuries ago, of the link between electricity…
Prediction of intrinsic magnetism at silicon surfaces could lead to single-spin magnetoelectronics
— 26 Aug 2010 20:28 | PhysicsThe integration of single-spin magnetoelectronics into standard silicon technology may soon be possible, if experiments confirm a new theoretical prediction by physicists at the Naval…
Quantum fractals at the border of magnetism
— 29 Jul 2010 11:01 | PhysicsU.S., German and Austrian physicists studying the perplexing class of materials that includes high-temperature superconductors are reporting this week the unexpected discovery of a…
Brown physicist discovers odd, fluctuating magnetic waves
— 24 Feb 2010 13:32 | PhysicsAt the quantum level, the forces of magnetism and superconductivity exist in an uneasy relationship. Superconducting materials repel a magnetic field, so to create a superconducting…
Synthetic magnetism achieved by optical methods
— 3 Dec 2009 10:14 | PhysicsFor the first time, physicists have used laser light to create 'synthetic magnetism,' an exotic condition in which neutral atoms suddenly begin to behave as if they were charged particles…