Arun Paramekanti

New Capabilities

As of October 2026: Professor, Department of Physics and Center for Quantum Information & Quantum Control, University of Toronto

Two-pole magnets run the modern world. Hard drives, credit-card strips, and refrigerator doors all rely on the familiar north-south dipole. A University of Toronto team has now found a way to see a stranger magnetic state, one that behaves as if it has eight poles and that ordinary instruments cannot detect.

Updated Oct 7