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Tohoku University

Figure 1

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Concept of the helimagnet-based memory devices. The directions of the atomic magnetic moments, depicted by the colored allows, are arranged into a spiral. Chirality, the right- and left-handed rotation direction of the spiral, is utilized to memorize information.

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Masuda et. al.

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