Physicists at RIKEN, a Japanese scientific research institute, recently found a way to show how extremely small amounts of heat can be manipulated to control magnetic whirlpools, otherwise known as skyrmions. This could be a stepping stone to creating more energy-efficient forms of computing. Skyrmions, which are information-carriers, develop when the magnetic flux of atoms move into specific patterns inside a material. Under some conditions, they organize into what’s called a skyrmion…
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