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umklapp

umklapp adjective: pertaining to the transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.

Adjective

umklapp (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.
    • They denoted this surface as the umklapp surface because of the importance of (n, n) umklapp scattering across this surface that occurs in the AF and the d-wave pairing channels.2006, Ghassan George Batrouni, Effective Models for Low-Dimensional Strongly Correlated Systems
    • It implies that our model is dual to a doped Mott system in one dimension where umklapp scattering is frozen at zero temperature.2015, Yi Ling, Peng Liu, Chao Niu, Jian-Pin Wu, “Building a doped Mott system by holography”, in arXiv

Origin of umklapp

From German umklappen (“fold over”).

Phrases with umklapp

Questions about umklapp

What does umklapp mean?
Umklapp means pertaining to the transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.
What part of speech is umklapp?
Umklapp is an adjective.

Words near umklapp in the dictionary

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  2. umirolimus
  3. UMIST
  4. UMKC
  5. umkhwetha
  6. umklapp
  7. Umklapp scattering
  8. Umklapp scatterings
  9. UML
  10. Umland
  11. Umlands

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