Magnets play a vital role in various modern technologies, from smartphones to data storage in solid state drives. In quantum computers, magnets are used to boost processing speed, but previously their strong magnetic properties only worked at extremely low temperatures, near absolute zero. This poses practical challenges for quantum computing. But now physicists at The University of Texas at El Paso have developed a highly magnetic quantum computing material that is 100 times more magnetic than pure iron and can operate at regular temperatures. This breakthrough is explained in the summer issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters.