Physicists Improve Spin Information Storage

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:13AM from the is-it-the-future-yet dept.

schliz writes "Researchers have made headway into developing spintronic RAM by successfully transferring spin information from an electron to a more robust atomic nucleus and accessing the information 2,000 times in 100 seconds before it decayed (abstract). The demonstration was conducted using phosphorus-doped silicon in a highly magnetized, low-temperature environment (8.59 Tesla, -269.5 degrees Celsius). Other researchers have achieved spin lifetimes of 30 hours in a weaker magnetic field (0.3 Tesla)."

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Re:Does this mean... by ShakaUVM · 2010-12-17 05:45 · Score: 3, Funny

At long last, the Fox network can successfully document and store (some of) the enormous amounts of spin generated by its commentators. What I want to know is when will the spin^2 ram be ready so we can start working on the O'Reilly spin/spin found in his "spin* free zone"
Well, a spin-free (spin 0) particle would obviously be a Higgs Boson.
Therefore O'Reilly is the source of inertia, and has yet to be found in France or Switzerland.