Scientists discover new type of magnet

“There’s a great deal of research these days into the use of magnets and magnetism to improve data storage technologies,” explains Andrew Wray, an assistant professor of physics at New York University, who led the research team. A pioneering thought 50 years ago, by contrast, posited that a material that lacks magnetic moments might still be able to be a magnet. Specifically, they found that USb2 holds the critical ingredients for this type of magnetism—particularly a quantum mechanical property called “Hundness” that governs how electrons generate magnetic moments.

Source: phys.org