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Giving directions

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The Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction — the mechanism behind weak ferromagnetism — has been difficult to probe experimentally. Now, significant progress is reported that has important implications for a wide range of magnetic phenomena.

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Figure 1: The Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (DM) interaction leads to a contribution to a system's magnetic energy in a complicated way.

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  1. Chong Der Hu is at the Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, No. 1 Sec. 4 Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan,

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