A New Twist for Magnets

The manipulation of magnets with electrical currents is an integral part of everyday technology. It is the operating principle behind electric motors and determines how information is written onto magnetic-memory devices such as computer hard drives. The underlying physical mechanism has been unders...

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Main Author: Dan Ralph
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1062.1715
http://ralphgroup.lassp.cornell.edu/papers/Science-291-999-2001.pdf