New State of Matter Holds Promise for Ultracompact Storage and Processing

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New state of matter holds promise for ultracompact storage and processing
A team of scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have recorded the first ever observations of rotating topologies of electrical polarization that are similar to the discrete swirls of magnetism known as ‘skyrmions.’ If these smoothly rotating vortex/anti-vortex topologies prove to be electrical skyrmions, they could find potential applications in ultracompact storage and processing, and could also lead to the production of new states of matter and associated phenomena in ferroic materials