We have investigated infinitely long, monostrand Pt nanowires theoretically, and found that they exhibit Hund’s rule magnetism. We find a spin moment of 0.6 μB per atom, at the equilibrium bond length. Its magnetic moment increases with stretching. The origin of the wire magnetism is analyzed and its effect on the conductance through the wire is discussed.

In 1600, William Gilbert of Colchester published the standard treatise on the difference between magnetism and electricity. He died a few years later, and his analysis was the canon of European thinking on the subject for 300 years. In 1894, Pierre Curie suggested that electricity and magnetism might be coupled in materials, but theoretical and experimental validation only came at the end of th...

Superconductivity and magnetism are typically antithetical forms of order. After all, in conventional superconductors, magnetic impurities are destructive to superconductivity as they break Cooper pairs [1]. But the discovery in 1979 of so-called heavy fermion superconductivity, found near an antiferromagnetic phase, led to a shift in thinking on this subject [2]. Since then, some of the most i...

We construct the general free energy governing long-wavelength magnetism in two dimensional oxide heterostructures, which applies irrespective of the microscopic mechanism for magnetism. This leads, in the relevant regime of weak but non-negligible spin-orbit coupling, to a rich phase diagram containing in-plane ferromagnetic, spiral, cone, and Skyrmion lattice phases, as well as a nematic stat...

This paper presents an integrated paleomagnetic, rock magnetic and geochemical study of the Devonian Antrim shale in Michigan Basin. Specimens were obtained from two unoriented vertical cores (named St. Chester Krocker) sampled relative to a master specimen orientation line. Alternating field (AF) demagnetization experiments isolated lower coercivity component (LC) 0 ∼60 mT Krocker core corresp...

TiO2 /Fe3O4 nanocomposites with various TiO2:Fe3O4 ratios were synthesized by an ultrasonic-assisted deposition-precipitation method and their UV-light decolorization of Congo dye and magnetic separation were investigated. The nanocomposite samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), surface area analayzer (BET) and Fourier transform infrare...