<ul><li>Researchers from the University of Tokyo and RIKEN have discovered that increasing particle motility and repulsive forces between atoms can induce and maintain an ordered state called ferromagnetism.</li><li>This finding extends the concept of active matter to quantum systems and has implications for technological advancements in magnetic memory and quantum computing.</li><li>The researchers created a theoretical model inspired by flocking birds to demonstrate the mechanism behind the ordered state in a quantum system.</li><li>The reliability of their finding was confirmed through computer simulations, mean-field theory, statistical theory, and mathematical proofs.</li></ul>

From disorder to order: flocking birds and “spinning” particles

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