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Submission + - Scientists Discover a New Kind of Magnet (ieee.org)

Wave723 writes: "A new kind of magnet, theorized for decades, may now have been experimentally proven to exist. And it could eventually lead to better data storage devices.

In a normal magnet, the magnetic moments of individual grains align with each other to generate a magnetic field. In contrast, in the new "singlet-based" magnet, magnetic moments are temporary in nature, popping in and out of existence."

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Scientists Discover a New Kind of Magnet

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