For the first time ever, researchers prove that atomic vibrations can transfer orbital angular momentum directly to electrons in a non-magnetic material, the most streamlined...
Ok so this study basically discovered that atoms arranged in certain patterns will affect the orbit of electrons when the atoms vibrate. We can detect those vibrations and determine the electron’s orbit. We can manipulate materials to cause them to have this effect as well.
So we can basically use this to store and retrieve information much like we do with bits on a computer. We are using the angular momentum of atoms like bits in a computer.
I’ll give it a shot. This is what I got from it.
Ok so this study basically discovered that atoms arranged in certain patterns will affect the orbit of electrons when the atoms vibrate. We can detect those vibrations and determine the electron’s orbit. We can manipulate materials to cause them to have this effect as well.
So we can basically use this to store and retrieve information much like we do with bits on a computer. We are using the angular momentum of atoms like bits in a computer.
We can detect the angular momentum of atoms? Wow. That sounds like the kind of data storage that you would destroy as you read it, though.
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