English Explanatory Dictionary

spin glass

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any material in which the atomic spins are oriented at disordered but fixed directions

Word forms

spin glass spin glasses

Etymology

From an analogy between the magnetic disorder in a spin glass and the positional disorder of conventional glass.

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