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The material is an antiferromagnet so there's not net magnetic moment and thus you don't have a magnetization to switch. This is not a material that will find a
by raziel2701 8y ago
The material is an antiferromagnet so there's not net magnetic moment and thus you don't have a magnetization to switch. This is not a material that will find applications in hard drives, motors or anything else that requires a magnetization.
The headline is technically correct, as anything with magnetic order is a magnet, but colloquially we understand magnets as something that can stick to some metals, which requires the magnet to be of ferro/ferrimagnetic order.
This system (USb2) is antiferromagnetic at low temperatures too, so it's not the best choice for applications right off the bat. It's a result that will be of interest mostly to theoreticians of magnetism and low temperature physicists, not so much for the engineers and other scientists with an eye for the applied stuff.
- benj111 8y agoI thought "enhancing the performance of data storage technologies" referred to hard drives? What else would it refer to???
- raziel2701 8y agoThat's what phys.org says but the authors of the paper make no comments whatsoever about applications. phys.org is reaching quite a bit in making that statement, the wonders of science journalism.