antiferromagnetism
Britishnoun
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Wilson continued, "If those magnetic moments interact in a way that wants them to point antiparallel to one another, we call that antiferromagnetism."
From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026
With ferromagnetism understood as deriving from the alignment of the individual magnetic moments of atoms in a crystal, Dr. Anderson provided a quantum explanation for what had been the perplexing property of antiferromagnetism.
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2020
In contrast, Anderson expounded the concept of emergence, which stated that as any system grew larger, new phenomena—such as antiferromagnetism and superconductivity—could emerge that could not be predicted from the fundamental interactions.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2020
The concept of antiferromagnetism, in which spins align in alternating directions and the average magnetic moment is zero, was developed only in the 1930s.
From Nature • Dec. 17, 2019
The existence of this phenomenon, antiferromagnetism, was subsequently confirmed in such substances as manganese salts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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