An alternating positive and negative saturating field is applied to near simultaneously observe the resistance of a magnetic tunnel junction in its parallel and antiparallel configuration. The random telegraph noise in the two configurations is found to be correlated in some devices and anticorrelated in others. These measurements provide insight into the noise mechanism and show that the noise cannot accurately be modeled as purely additive.

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