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Einstein–de Haas effect

Einstein–de Haas effect noun: a physical phenomenon in which a change in the magnetic moment of a free body causes the body to rotate, as a consequence of the conservation of angular momentum.

Noun

Einstein—de Haas effect (plural Einstein–de Haas effects)

  1. A physical phenomenon in which a change in the magnetic moment of a free body causes the body to rotate, as a consequence of the conservation of angular momentum.
    • This relation between the magnetic moment and the angular momentum is demonstrated by the Einstein–de Haas effect, discovered in 1915, in which a ferromagnetic rod is suspended vertically, along its axis, by a thin fibre (see Fig 1.2).2001, Stephen Blundell, Magnetism in Condensed Matter, Oxford University Press, page 2
    • Because of this transfer, an initially spin-polarized dipolar condensate can dynamically generate vortices in a process resembling the Einstein–de Haas effect.2013, Makoto Tsubota, Kenichi Kasamatsu, Michikazu Kobayashi, “Quantized vortices in superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates”, in Karl-Heinz Bennemann, John B. Ketterson, editors...

Forms of Einstein–de Haas effect

pluralEinstein–de Haas effects
alternative formEinstein-de Haas effect

Origin of Einstein–de Haas effect

Named after physicists Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas, who jointly published the first observation of the effect in 1915. It had been predicted by Owen Willans Richardson in 1908.

Questions about Einstein–de Haas effect

What does Einstein–de Haas effect mean?
Einstein–de Haas effect means a physical phenomenon in which a change in the magnetic moment of a free body causes the body to rotate, as a consequence of the conservation of angular momentum.
What part of speech is Einstein–de Haas effect?
Einstein–de Haas effect is a noun.
What is the plural of Einstein–de Haas effect?
The plural of Einstein–de Haas effect is Einstein–de Haas effects.

Words near Einstein–de Haas effect in the dictionary

  1. Einsteinianism
  2. Einsteinism
  3. einsteinium
  4. einsteins
  5. Einsteiny
  6. Einstein–de Haas effect
  7. Einstellung
  8. Einstellung effect
  9. Einstellung effects
  10. EIP
  11. EIPH

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