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magnetic domain
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magnetic domain [mag′nedĀ·ik də′mān]
(solid-state physics)


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The controlled motion of the walls between magnetic domains is what enables fully magnetic logic operations.
Regions of storage media known as magnetic domains, in which almost all atoms have the same one of two possible spin orientations, serve as the ones and zeros of digital information.
This phenomenon of spontaneously broken rotational symmetry or creation of a spin directional order explains ferromagnetism-the familiar microscopic magnetism of magnets made of many internal magnetic domains.
 
 
 
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