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New order for magnetism

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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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Figure 1: Manipulation of magnetism.

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  1. Eiji Saitoh is in the Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan. saitoheiji@appi.keio.ac.jp,

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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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