A Compass Pointing West: Chirally Coupled Nanomagnets
Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Villigen and the Mesoscopic Systems and the Magnetism and Interface Physcs groups have discovered a special phenomenon in magnets. This phenomenon takes place at the nanoscale and enables magnets to be assembled in unusual configurations, which could also be useful for computer technology and data storage.
North-West and South-East coupling of atoms
For more details see the publications below.
PSI Press Release: external page English, external page German
Luo Z, Phuong Dao T, Hrabec A, Vijayakumar J, Kleibert A, Baumgartner M, Kirk E, Cui J, Savchenko T, Krishnaswamy G, Heyderman LJ, Gambardella P., Chirally coupled nanomagnets. Science (2019), published online March 28th, external page DOI:10.1126/science.aau7913