Magnetic monopole data storage – a possible efficient and
long term rewritable store for information
“An important
future application of the magnetic eddies could be extremely compact and
long-lived storage media. Whereas one needs around a million atoms to store one
bit in a modern hard disk, the smallest known skyrmions in magnetic materials
consist of only 15 atoms.
At the same time
moving such skyrmions requires 100,000 times less power than moving memory bits
in devices based on conventional magnetic materials, in order to process
information such a precisely controlled manner. Perhaps the most interesting
characteristic of skyrmions, however, is that they are especially stable, like
a knot in a string.”
skyrmions confuse the crap out of me, and just remind me of Bethseda's recent computer game: Skyrim
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