vortices

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Magnetic vortices form in ultrathin disks made of materials like nickel-iron, often just micrometers or even nanometers in size.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

In this phase, the magnetic directions of individual atoms, called magnetic moments, organize into swirling structures known as vortices.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

These vortices offer additional ways to encode information, but most existing systems can produce only a single type of pattern and usually lack the ability to switch between modes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 4, 2026

Another goal is to decrease the use of hazardous chemicals and reduce the size and energy demand of hardware by applying advanced predictive technologies for high-power vortices.

From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025

Hooke also did away with the vortices, introducing the idea of what we would now call ‘action at a distance’—gravity reaching out across empty space to tug on the Moon or the planets.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin