Sentences with phrase «of magnetic charge»

Under the presence of magnetic charge, the iron particles align to provide damping resistance almost instantly.
Under the influence of a magnetic charge, the particles produce instantaneous valving changes.
Other potential applications of magnetic charge ice might include enhancement of the current - carrying capability of superconductors.
A depiction of the global order of magnetic charge ice.
On either side of that defect, all of a sudden, is a concentration of magnetic charge — two norths at one end, two souths at the other.
A team of scientists, led by University of Illinois physicist Peter Schiffer, has reported direct visualization of magnetic charge crystallization in an artificial spin ice material, a first in the study of a relatively new class of frustrated artificial magnetic materials - by - design known as «Artificial Spin Ice.»
That estimate depends on another unknown property of monopoles, the strength of their magnetic charge.
The team was able to image the crystalline structure of the magnetic charges using magnetic force microscopy.
OIST's physicist studies magnetic monopoles in spin ice crystals and explains why double layers of magnetic charges can be found
«Our work is the first success achieving an artificial ice of magnetic charges with controllable energy states,» said Xiao, who holds a joint appointment between Argonne and NIU.
I'm not a big fan of the magnetic charging clasp, though.

Not exact matches

The magnetic charging port retains the two - point design of the Pebble Steel, so cables for the original Pebble won't work, but it now resides on the back instead of the side.
The consequences of a CME imparting a huge induced charge into the earths magnetic field today would overload transformers and communication grids on a global scale.
As one of the most advanced oral irrigators from Waterpik, it comes with an ultra-quiet design, a four - hour rapid magnetic charge and is accessible in up to 4 unique colors.
But progressive voters seem to care less today about the strength of their party, or even about a particular checklist of issues, than about their confidence in a candidate's sincerity — as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a career independent, proved with his electrifying and magnetic charge at the Democratic nomination last year.
The inner region sends out clock - like pulses of radiation and tsunamis of charged particles embedded in magnetic fields.
Many of the best cheap watches incorporate magnetic couplings in order to replenish the charge, so there's no wire to fish out and use.
The corona is made up of charged plasma, which roils in famous loops and fans that follow magnetic field lines emerging from the surface of the sun (SN Online: 8/17/17).
Instead of coating the tape with magnetic film that could record data, they started coating it with goopy layers of an electrode that could store electric charge.
The existence of hypothetical particles called magnetic monopoles would explain why electric charge comes in integer multiples of the charge of an electron instead of a continuous range of values, Emily Conover reported in «Magnets with a single pole are still giving physicists the slip» (SN: 2/3/18, p. 10).
Earth's magnetic field protects the atmosphere from solar winds — streams of charged particles shooting from the Sun.
The solar wind of charged particles and magnetic fields blows through a fog of primordial dust and neutrally charged atoms created in nearby stars or the uppermost reaches of Earth's atmosphere.
The curlicues trace the paths of highly charged particles racing along magnetic fields in the sun's atmosphere.
The magnetic fields whip the charged particles in tight spirals, forcing them to emit x-rays in the form of synchrotron radiation.
Sunspots are areas of intense magnetism, and solar flares erupt when lines of magnetic energy intersect, break, and reconnect, releasing billions of tons of electrically charged particles.
The effect, which has not yet been demonstrated, would take advantage of the stationary magnetic field that surrounds a charged loop of metal.
Equally daunting, the satellite orbits deep within Jupiter's awesome magnetic field, which traps and holds an enormous supply of lethally charged particles.
The moon has no global magnetic field today, but early in its life, it probably had a core hot enough to churn violently, with the movement of this electrically charged fluid creating a magnetic field.
This freely moving particle, predicted by many grand theories of the universe, is thought to carry a single quantum of magnetic «charge», rather as an electron carries a single unit of electric charge.
As far as we can tell, though, nature only supplies magnetic charges, or poles, in pairs — the inseparable north and south poles of the bar magnets beloved of school science demonstrations, for example.
Huge swirls at the edge of Mercury's magnetosphere — where the planet's magnetic field meets the energetic charged particles of the solar wind — help shower the planet in solar plasma.
For a monopole with twice the minimum charge, Rajantie and Gould determined that magnetic monopoles must be more massive than about 10 billion electron volts, going by data from collisions of lead nuclei in the Super Proton Synchrotron, a smaller accelerator at CERN.
The movement of iron, which can carry a charge, generates a strong magnetic field that can protect a planet's atmosphere from being ravaged by solar wind (SN Online: 8/18/17).
The accretion disk is made of charged particles, and when the particles move, they generate a magnetic field.
Further detectors inside the tank look for decay particles: a magnetic spectrometer measures the momentum of charged tracks from kaon decays, a ring imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detector tells the team the nature of decay particles, and electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters measure their energy.
Phosphorus doping pushed over 90 percent of NV centers to the negative charge state, enabling magnetic field detection.
In a complementary paper, astrophysicist John Connerney of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues look at how Jupiter's magnetic field interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles flowing from the sun.
Much as the sun's solar wind blows out the tails of comets, the vanishingly thin stuff between the stars blows the charged particles and magnetic fields of the solar wind back into a tail.
Understanding the two phenomena, which are both produced by interactions between charged particles and the planet's magnetic field, may help to explain the variations in the timing of the radio pulses and to shed light on Saturn's geomagnetic workings.
The effect is much the same as when the sun's «wind» of charged particles and magnetic fields blows a comet's gas and dust into a tail.
The Hall voltage climbs as the magnetic field increases in a series of even steps whose spacing is set by the electron's charge.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to track a cosmic ray back to its source in the sky; magnetic fields twist the paths of charged particles into knots before those particles reach Earth.
Launched in 1997, Cassini has been exploring the Saturn system for more than nine years with a suite of instruments that also includes visible - light cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, as well as magnetic field and charged particle sensors.
An unusually complex magnetic eruption on the sun has flung a large cloud of electrically charged particles towards Earth.
The jets could be the result of a magnetic field produced by charged ions swirling around in the gas but it wasn't clear whether the field was strong enough.
These findings are highly significant, they say, because one futuristic application of wireless power transfer would be to harness and use it via magnetic resonance to charge electric vehicles.
Around spinning black holes, however, frame dragging could be hugely important: By whipping magnetic field lines through the electrically charged gas around the holes, it could convert them into electromagnetic generators, which would explain how they spew jets of energetic particles millions of light - years into space.
Electrons begin moving in circles in response to the magnetic field, as well as back and forth in reaction to the electric field — and the moving charges produce fields of their own.
Over the past decade, physicists have developed much more detailed maps of the magnetic field within the galaxy, which can deflect charged particles such as protons and nuclei.
But adding parallel magnetic and electric fields introduces a chiral preference: The magnetic field aligns the spins of the positive and negative particles in opposite directions, and the electric field starts the oppositely charged particles moving — positive particles move with the electric field, negative ones against it.
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