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Spintronics transports electron angular momentum for memory

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Moving electric charge around is getting boring for physicists. The new trick is transporting the actual quantum spin state of electrons to store data, relying on atomic magnetism instead of just pushing currents.

Spintronics transports electron angular momentum for memory
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