spin glass

English

Etymology

From an analogy between the magnetic disorder in a spin glass and the positional disorder of conventional glass.

Noun

spin glass (plural spin glasses)

  1. (physics) Any material in which the atomic spins are oriented at disordered but fixed directions
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