US researchers have manipulated fixed magnetic skyrmions using voltages, offering a possible route to skyrmion memory. Magnetic skyrmions are self-contained stable spin fields that share some characteristics with particles. They can be only a few nanometres across, and in certain circumstances can be created, destroyed and manipulated with very little energy, leading to them being ...

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