Thermodynamics Discovery Teases Super-Dense HDDs

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Thermodynamics discovery teases super-dense drives
New research into the Third Law of Thermodynamics and the odd behaviors of spin ice could have implications for storage and more, with nanotech scientists finding unexpected behaviors at near-absolute zero. The study, carried out at University College London, created thin films of spin ice – which shows magnetic properties, and normally would be assumed to be the only thing not to fully freeze at absolute zero – for the first time, and then demonstrated how those films could be manipulated. There are suggestions that the tiny, individually charged monopoles – if manipulated correctly – could be used for incredibly dense storage, exponentially more capacious than today’s hard-drives.