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To measure a magnon population

Magnons are collective spin excitations that can propagate over long distances — an attractive trait for information-transfer technologies — but we need to better understand their thermodynamic properties. A platform using graphene may hold the key.

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Fig. 1: A set-up to measure the thermodynamic properties of magnons in graphene.

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Carrega, M., Heun, S. To measure a magnon population. Nat. Phys. 18, 3–4 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01396-9

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