magnetic field
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Magnetic confinement devices—whether the doughnut-shaped tokamaks used in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project or the linear configuration pursued by TAE—rely on intricate magnetic fields to hold the plasma together.
Aurora Borealis, as the green lights dancing across the sky are known formally, are caused by charged sun particles interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field, which is most intense at the poles.
Standard ferromagnetic materials used in memory devices allow data to be written easily using external magnetic fields.
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By shifting the energy levels of the electrons, a magnetic field could potentially move Majorana particles from the edges of the crystal to its corners.
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Josephson contacts form the core of many quantum computers and make it possible to measure extraordinarily weak magnetic fields.
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