Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

umklapp

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: umk-lapp
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to the transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.

Example Sentences

"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."
"It implies that our model is dual to a doped Mott system in one dimension where umklapp scattering is frozen at zero temperature."

Etymology

From German umklappen (“fold over”).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: umklappen

Questions

What does umklapp mean?: Pertaining to the transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.
Where does umklapp come from?: It is traced to German.

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