The thermal, spin and magnetic evolution of neutron stars in the old low mass binaries is first explored. Recycled to very short periods via accretion torques, the neutron stars lose their magnetism progressively. If accretion proceeds undisturbed for 100 Myrs these stars can rotate close to break up with periods far below the minimum observed of 1.558 ms. We investigate their histories using p...

iron oxide minerals in soils provide valuable insights into pedogenic processes. a wealth of such information has been obtained by rock magnetic investigations on temperate soils but similar studies on tropical soils are rare. here, we report rock magnetic data on pristine soil profiles and surficial soils from five catchments in the tropical southern india and throw light on the pedogenic pro...

INTRODUCTION It is not only timely, for the reasons discussed below, to provide a survey of the use of magnetic susceptibility measurements for the study :of complex compounds, but also fitting that the subject should be discussed in a country whose scientists have made so many outstanding contributions to quantum mechanics in general and spectroscopy and magnetism in particular. I pay a specia...

Novel or unusual magnetism is a subject of considerable interest, particularly in metals and degenerate semiconductors. In such materials the interplay of magnetism, transport and other Fermi liquid properties can lead to fascinating physical behavior. One example is in magnetic semiconductors, where spin polarized currents may be controlled and used. We report density functional calculations p...

The CeMIn5 heavy fermion compounds have attracted enormous interest since their discovery six years ago. These materials exhibit a rich spectrum of unusual correlated electron behavior, and may be an ideal model for the high temperature superconductors. As many of these systems are either antiferromagnets, or lie close to an antiferromagnetic phase boundary, it is crucial to understand the beha...

We demonstrate experimentally that magnetism in ZnO, TiO2, CeO2, and SnO2 nanocrystals (NCs) has a fluctuant nature that varying with capping surfactant type and concentration. By developing a forced hydrolysis approach with additional post-processing for the synthesis and surfactant capping of these NCs, we effectively avoid the influence of size, shape, and magnetic impurities on the magnetic...

A family of coupled nanostrips with varying dimensions is demonstrated exhibiting optical magnetic responses across the whole visible spectrum, from red to blue. We refer to such a phenomenon as rainbow magnetism. The experimental and analytical studies of such structures provide us with a universal building block and a general recipe for producing controllable optical magnetism for various pra...

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...