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FFLO phase

FFLO phase noun: a type of superconducting phase, characterized by the presence of Cooper pairs with nonzero center-of-mass momentum and a spatially non-uniform superconducting order parameter.

Noun

FFLO phase (uncountable)

  1. A type of superconducting phase, characterized by the presence of Cooper pairs with nonzero center-of-mass momentum and a spatially non-uniform superconducting order parameter.

Origin of FFLO phase

From the initials of the names of the physicist theoreticians who predicted this superconducting phase: Peter Fulde, Richard Ferrell, Anatoly Larkin, and Yuri Ovchinniko.

Questions about FFLO phase

What does FFLO phase mean?
FFLO phase means a type of superconducting phase, characterized by the presence of Cooper pairs with nonzero center-of-mass momentum and a spatially non-uniform superconducting order parameter.
What part of speech is FFLO phase?
FFLO phase is a noun.

Words near FFLO phase in the dictionary

  1. FFI
  2. FFIs
  3. Ffitch
  4. FFL
  5. FFLO
  6. FFLO phase
  7. FFM
  8. FFMs
  9. FFO
  10. ffooks
  11. fforde

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