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magnetochiral

magnetochiral adjective: chiral when in the presence of a magnetic field.

Adjective

magnetochiral (not comparable)

  1. chiral when in the presence of a magnetic field
    • The obtained formula for #92;gamma shows that the magnetochiral anisotropy is strongly enhanced when the chemical potential is tuned to Weyl points, and that noncentrosymmetric Weyl semimetals such as TaAs can exhibit much larger magnetochiral anisotropy than that observed in other materials so...2016, Takahiro Morimoto, Naoto Nagaosa, “Chiral anomaly and giant magnetochiral anisotropy in noncentrosymmetric Weyl semimetals”, in arXiv

Origin of magnetochiral

From magneto- + chiral.

Questions about magnetochiral

What does magnetochiral mean?
Magnetochiral means chiral when in the presence of a magnetic field.
What part of speech is magnetochiral?
Magnetochiral is an adjective.

Words near magnetochiral in the dictionary

  1. magnetochemical
  2. magnetochemically
  3. magnetochemist
  4. magnetochemistry
  5. magnetochemists
  6. magnetochiral
  7. magnetochrome
  8. magnetochromes
  9. magnetochron
  10. magnetochronologic
  11. magnetochronological

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