'Frustrated' nanomagnets order themselves through disorder | Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science

Extremely small arrays of magnets with strange and unusual properties can order themselves by increasing entropy, or the tendency of physical systems to disorder, a behavior that appears to contradict standard thermodynamics—but doesn’t.    “Paradoxically, the system orders because it wants to be more disordered,” said Cristiano Nisoli, a

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