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Theoretically, you could store information in the spin state of every electron in an atom. For gold, for example, that would yield 79 bits per atom.

• TomMarius 8y ago
  Researchers are looking into this, this field as a whole is supposed to be called "spintronics".
• smaddox 8y ago
  No... You could theoretically store information in the spin state of a few valance atoms, but all of the tightly bound atoms are already filling all of the spin states.