Magnetic vortices in an ultrathin material during the BKT phase (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Magnetic vortices in an ultrathin material during the BKT phase

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When researchers at UT Austin coaxed an atomically thin sheet of nickel phosphorus trisulfide to enter a special magnetic phase, called the BKT phase, the magnetic orientations of individual atoms formed swirling patterns called vortices.

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