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Liquid crystals shown to mimic the skyrmion Hall effect
Original: A liquid-crystal analogue of the skyrmion Hall effect
A study published in Nature reports the first liquid-crystal analogue of the skyrmion Hall effect, a phenomenon previously observed mainly in magnetic materials where swirling topological structures drift sideways under an applied force. Demonstrating the effect in liquid crystals offers a softer, more accessible system for studying skyrmions and could inform research into low-power information storage and processing.
Why now: The publication of a Nature paper extending a well-known magnetic physics effect to liquid crystals has drawn attention from the physics community.
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