Nutation Scheme (IMAGE)

Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Nutation Scheme

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An international team of scientists has managed for the first time to observe the 'nutation' of spins in magnetic materials (the oscillations of their axis during precession). The measured nutation period was of the order of one picosecond. The discovery was published by Nature Physics

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Dunia Maccagni

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