University of Tokyo

New Capabilities

Affiliation of co-author Swati Chaudhary

Two-pole magnets run the modern world. Hard drives, credit-card strips, and refrigerator doors all rely on the familiar north-south dipole. A University of Toronto team has now found a way to see a stranger magnetic state, one that behaves as if it has eight poles and that ordinary instruments cannot detect.

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