These discoveries have given birth to a field of endeavour that is known as spintronics, because the magnetic properties of a material depend on a quantum-mechanical property of electrons called spin.

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One of these is that if it is placed in a magnetic field it exhibits a phenomenon known as the relativistic quantum Hall effect.

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They've shown that a synthetically grown sample of herbertsmithite crystal (what you see above) behaves as a quantum spin liquid: a material where fractional quantum states produce a liquid-like flux in magnetic orientations, even if the material is solid.

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The LTO tape consortium (led by HP, IBM and Quantum) has a public tape product roadmap that will take magnetic tape technology out to about 13 TB of native (uncompressed) storage capacity.

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In some of the packing arrangements, the quantum dots are huddled together, and thus are less susceptible to the magnetic field from the iron oxide nanoparticles.

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