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This article was written for New Scientist. You can read the full piece here.
This article was written for New Scientist. You can read the full piece here.
Spin, as anyone who has ever heard Alistair Campbell speak, is a tricky thing to figure out. Quantum spin β a property many subatomic particles have β is equally confounding, but, if understood, could lead to a powerful new breed of computer technology called spintronics. Despite its name, quantum spin does not actually refer to a rotating ball such as the Earth. “The electron is not physically spinning around but it has a magnetic north pole and a magnetic south pole,β says Professor Philippe Jacquod, a researcher in spintronics at the University of Arizona. βIts spin depends on which pole…