Shaken, not heated: The ideal recipe for manipulating magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) — Scientists have found a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic properties of an important class of electronic materials with ultra-short pulses of terahertz (mid-infrared) laser light without heating the material up. While the achievement is currently of purely scientific interest, the researchers say this new approach control could ultimately lead to extremely fast, low-energy, non-volatile computer memory chips or data-switching devices.

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Shaken, not heated: The ideal recipe for manipulating magnetism