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Eavesdropping on spin talk

Taking advantage of nuclear and electron 'spin interactions' to store and process information is a long-standing goal. A systematic technique for manipulating spin in a semiconductor provides a low-temperature solution.

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Figure 1: Conservation of energy during spin reversal.
Figure 2: The skyrmion regime.

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Kikkawa, J. Eavesdropping on spin talk. Nature 415, 273–275 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/415273a

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