A few highlights from the technical article: > Their pivotal discovery allows real-time control of information transfer between microwave photons and magnons.

A few highlights from the technical article: > Their pivotal discovery allows real-time control of information transfer between microwave photons and magnons. > Wireless communications use microwave photons are elementary particles that form electromagnetic waves. Meanwhile, another concept called “magnons” can also carry information. Magnons are wave-like disturbances in an ordered array of microscopically aligned spins that occur in certain magnetic materials. > Using a novel method involving energy-level tuning, the team was able to rapidly switch between magnonic and photonic states over a period shorter than the magnon or photon lifetimes. This period is a mere 10 to 100 nanoseconds. > And it could result in a new generation of classical electronic and quantum signal devices that can be used in various applications such as signal switching, low-power computing and quantum networking.