Chuck Darwin<p>In what's referred to as <a href="https://c.im/tags/altermagnetism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>altermagnetism</span></a>, <br>particles are arranged in a canceling fashion like antiferromagnetism, <br>yet rotated just enough to allow for confined forces on a nanoscale <br>– not enough to pin a grocery list to your freezer, <br>but with discrete properties that engineers are keen to manipulate into storing data or channeling energy.</p><p>"Altermagnets consist of magnetic moments that point antiparallel to their neighbors," <br>explains University of Nottingham physicist Peter Wadley.</p><p>"However, each part of the crystal hosting these tiny moments is rotated with respect to its neighbours. </p><p>This is like antiferromagnetism with a twist! <br>But this subtle difference has huge ramifications."</p><p>Experiments have since confirmed the existence of this in-between 'alter' magnetism. <br>However, none had directly demonstrated it was possible to manipulate its tiny magnetic vortices in ways that might prove useful.</p><p>Wadley and his colleagues demonstrated that a sheet of manganese telluride just a few nanometers thick could be distorted in ways that intentionally created distinct magnetic whirlpools on the wafer's surface<br><a href="https://search.app/K1DrdDsLL2bg5Jhh6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">search.app/K1DrdDsLL2bg5Jhh6</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>