News tagged with magnetic vortex

Manipulating the texture of magnetism

Knowing how to control the combined magnetic properties of interacting electrons will provide the basis to develop an important tool for advancing spintronics: a technology that aims to harness these properties ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Physicists unveil a theory for a new kind of superconductivity

(PhysOrg.com) -- In this 100th anniversary year of the discovery of superconductivity, physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology have published a ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

A quick switch for magnetic needles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic vortex cores, which can be used as particularly stable storage points for data bits, can now be switched much faster.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research elucidates the effect of disorder on magnetic vortex gyration

Much of the world’s information is stored in memories consisting of magnetic domains, and researchers continue to develop new domain arrangements to enable smaller and faster such memories.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists observe exotic state in an unconventional superconductor

A new fractional vortex state observed in an unconventional superconductor may offer the first glimpse of an exotic state of matter predicted theoretically for more than 30 years. In a paper published in the ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists generate rotating electron beams

A team of EU-funded scientists has come up with a way of generating rotating electron beams. The technique, described in the journal Nature, could be used to probe the magnetic properties of materials and co ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Magnetic vortex memory shows memory potential of nanodots

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using magnetic nanodots in the vortex state, researchers have designed a new kind of non-volatile memory that could offer increased speed and density for next-generation non-volatile random ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir (w/ Video)

Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Magnetic Vortex Switch Leads to Electric Pulse

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Arkansas have shown that changing the chirality, or direction of spin, of a nanoscale magnetic vortex creates an electric pulse, suggesting that such a pulse might be of use ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

New control of nanoscale 'magnetic tornadoes' holds promise for data storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the human scale, the tightly wrapped spinning columns of air in a tornado contain terrifying destructive power that ravages communities. At the nanoscale, however, closely coiled magnetic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2