spin Hall effect

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.

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Meanings

nounspin Hall effect (plural spin Hall effects)

plural spin Hall effects

  1. natural sciencesThe 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.

Origin

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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