人工"旋转冰"在纳米级铁磁岛屿的几何挫折格子中

R F Wang1, C Nisoli, R S Freitas

  • 1Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

Nature
|January 20, 2006
PubMed
概括

研究人员创造了一个人造的挫折磁铁,模仿了旋转冰的奇特的低温状态. 这一突破允许在一个新的系统中直接可视化磁挫折物理.

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