Ising model

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A particular mathematical model of ferromagnetism in statistical mechanics.

Word forms

Ising model the Ising model

Etymology

Named after the physicist Ernst Ising, to whom it was given as a problem by its inventor Wilhelm Lenz.

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