ferromagnet

American  

[fer-oh-mag-nit] / ˌfɛr oʊˈmæg nɪt /

noun

Physics.

1. a ferromagnetic substance.

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Etymology

Origin of ferromagnet

First recorded in 1940–45; ferro- + magnet

Example Sentences

While earlier work had shown that individual electron spins could be manipulated with light, this study demonstrates switching the polarity of an entire ferromagnet at once.

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To confirm that the tiny ferromagnet, which measures only a few micrometers across, had truly reversed its polarity, the team shone a second, weaker laser beam onto it.

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Researchers at the University of Basel and ETH Zurich have demonstrated a way to reverse the polarity of a specialized ferromagnet using a focused laser beam.

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"This effective field is able to couple to the ferroaxial state, just like a magnetic field would switch a ferromagnet or an electric field would reverse a ferroelectric state," he added.

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"Thanks to the high precision and sensitivity of our measurements, we could detect the characteristic alternating splitting of the energy levels corresponding to opposite spin states and thus demonstrate that manganese telluride is neither a conventional antiferromagnet nor a conventional ferromagnet but belongs to the new altermagnetic branch of magnetic materials," says Juraj Krempasky, beamline scientist in the Beamline Optics Group at PSI and first author of the study.

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