Newfound 'altermagnets' shatter the magnetic status quo

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1. Interesting bit from the article ...

What’s more, whereas ferromagnets tend to be metals, altermagnets can be made of a variety of material types (SN: 1/11/23). Manganese telluride, for example, is a semiconductor. Because semiconductors are used to make computer chips, scientists hoped that a magnetic material that is also a semiconductor might allow for the possibility of combining a memory and processor in one material (SN: 10/4/13).