New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material

In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align.

by Manuela Weber-Semler

ll the magnets you have ever interacted with, such as the tchotchkes stuck to your refrigerator door, are magnetic for the same reason. But what if there were another, stranger way to make a material magnetic?

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