Magnonics - The Revolution Everyone Is Missing

As a former Wall Street banker, I've always been obsessed with efficiency.

Find the edge, streamline the process, eliminate waste – that was the name of the game. Little did I know that years later, I'd find the ultimate quest for efficiency waiting for me not on a trading floor, but in the world of physics and the emerging field of magnonics.

Let's face it, the technology we rely on every day is getting...complicated, interconnected and energy consumptive.

Our smartphones, our data centers – they're gobbling up energy and bumping up against the limits of what silicon chips can do.

That's the bad news.

The good news is that a revolution might be brewing, and it centers around something called spin waves and their associated quasiparticles, magnons.

Now hold on, I know the term "quasiparticle" sounds like something out of a Star Trek episode, bu…