English Explanatory Dictionary

spin Hall effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The appearance of spin accumulation on the lateral surfaces of an electric current-carrying sample, the signs of the spin directions being opposite on the opposing boundaries.

Word forms

spin Hall effect spin Hall effects

Etymology

Named after American physicist Edwin Herbert Hall, who discovered the classical Hall effect, while its "spin" analogous phenomenon was predicted by Russian physicists Mikhail Dyakonov and Vladimir I. Perel in 1971

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