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The researchers used ultrashort laser pulse excitation to optically stimulate specific atomic vibrations of the magnet's crystal lattice
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Lancaster University
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Fast and energy-efficient future data processing technologies are on the horizon after an international team of scientists successfully manipulated magnets at the atomic level.
Scientists manipulate magnets at the atomic scale
Lancaster, UK | Posted on February 12th, 2021
Physicist Dr Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy from Lancaster University said: "With stalling efficiency trends of current technology, new scientific approaches are especially valuable. Our discovery of the atomically-driven ultrafast control of magnetism opens broad avenues for fast and energy-efficient future data processing technologies essential to keep up with our data hunger."