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Researchers develop a new computational model that helps identify origin of complex magnetization reversal in soft magnets.

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A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has confirmed that hematite, the most abundant iron ore on the planet and a staple of steel production, carries a form of magnetism that physicists only ...

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Magnetic vortices When researchers at UT Austin coaxed an atomically thin sheet of nickel phosphorus trisulphide to enter an unusual magnetic state called the BKT phase, the magnetic orientations of ...