«It's very difficult to obtain
an aligned magnetic material,» he adds.
Not exact matches
Get the atoms» polar axes to
align, and the
material itself becomes
magnetic.
Like refrigerator magnets, chromium triiodide is a ferromagnet, a
material that generates a permanent
magnetic field owing to the
aligned spins of its electrons.
Magnets are a good example of this: the electrons in magnets
align themselves in a preferred direction of spin inside the
material, and it is this that produces the
magnetic field.
And that if you heat a magnet up enough, then you have no magnet at all: High temperatures randomly jumble all the bits of
magnetic material (ultimately orientations of spinning electrons) that had
aligned themselves along the north - to - south - pole axis.
In this
material, many electrons
align their
magnetic moments at low temperatures.
When hot, iron - rich
material is exposed to a
magnetic field, its electrons
align like tiny compasses.
But the interaction of the two
materials at their interface creates an internal
magnetic field that
aligns all the atoms in the nickel iron layers.
Using a rotating electric current that induces a
magnetic field, computer data could be transferred to small particles of
magnetic materials, with each particle
aligned either up or down, representing a one or a zero.
This alleviates the quantum traffic jam so that, when the
material is cooled to a certain temperature, oppositely
aligned electrons (
magnetic partners where the «spin» of one electron points up and the adjacent one points down) form pairs and then become free to zip through the
material unimpeded - a superconductor.