Cooling Magnets with Sound (IMAGE)

University of Innsbruck

Cooling Magnets with Sound

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The motion of magnetic objects can be made to interact with their internal acoustic waves. In this way, as physicists from Innsbruck show, nanoparticles can be cooled down to such an extent that they exhibit quantum properties.

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Carlos Sánchez Muñoz

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