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Physicists magnetize a material with light

Between layers of graphene are 4 paired, shiny electrons. 2 are blue and 2 are red, and whisps of glowing energy connect them together. They have rings like Saturn, and these rings move them clockwise or counter-clockwise.
From a five-layer graphene sandwich, a rare electronic state emerges

A rectangular vector map with haxagons distorted on the left by squeezing and on the right by stretching, showing how charged particles are directed to the top or bottom edge of the map.
New quantum magnet unleashes electronics potential

Artist’s rendition of skyrmions, exotic particles represented by the whirls of red, yellow, and white arrows.
MIT physicists predict exotic new phenomena and give “recipe” for realizing them