Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spin hall effect

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.19 in modern English

Syllables: spin hal-l -ef-fect
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

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

Inflected Forms

spin Hall effects (plural)

Questions

What does spin hall effect mean?: 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.
Where does spin hall effect come from?: 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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