Physicists have come up with an innovative way of manipulating the direction of magnetization in a solid. The approach might be used to make low-power-consumption computer memory devices.
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Saitoh, E. New order for magnetism. Nature 455, 474–475 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455474a
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