Physicists discover new quantum trick for graphene: magnetism

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(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation)

Physicists at Stanford University have stumbled upon a novel form of magnetism, predicted but never seen before, that is generated when two honeycomb-shaped lattices of carbon are carefully stacked and rotated to a special angle. The authors suggest the magnetism, called orbital ferromagnetism, could prove useful for certain applications, such as quantum computing.