Re: manipulating the magnetic ordering of antiferromagnets is tricky.
They manipulate a pair instead of a singleton. That 's probably the operative difference that makes it work. That's from the PhysOrg article.
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-spintronics-material-huge-storage.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter