Meanings
nounFano effect (plural Fano effects)
plural Fano effects
- natural sciencesThe polarization of the spin of electrons produced when alkali atoms absorb circularly polarized light; any of several similar quantum optical effects
Origin
For Ugo Fano, Italian physicist.
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