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Physicists Identify 'Octupolar' Magnetism, With Implications
Physicists Identify 'Octupolar' Magnetism, With Implications for Quantum Technologies
TL;DRScientists discovered a new type of magnetism with eight poles instead of two.
Why it matters: Could enable new quantum computing and sensing technologies with fundamentally different magnetic properties.
While most magnets have two poles (north and south, or positive and negative), recent advances in quantum mechanics have revealed an "octupolar order," writes Phys.org, where a pattern of particles in a crystalline structure "behaves as if it has eight magnetic poles rather than…
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