antiferromagnet

American  

[an-tee-fer-oh-mag-nit, an-tahy-] / ˌæn tiˌfɛr oʊˈmæg nɪt, ˌæn taɪ- /

noun

Physics.

1. an antiferromagnetic substance.

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Etymology

Origin of antiferromagnet

First recorded in 1935–40; anti- + ferromagnet

Example Sentences

Their study, titled "Interleaved bond frustration in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet," examines how multiple forms of frustration can arise in these systems.

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A team led by Ryo Shimano at the University of Tokyo has directly observed how electron spins flip inside an antiferromagnet, a material in which opposing spins cancel each other out.

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Traditionally, the material has been regarded as a classic antiferromagnet because the magnetic moments on neighbouring manganese atoms point in opposite directions, generating a vanishing net magnetisation.

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"Thanks to the high precision and sensitivity of our measurements, we could detect the characteristic alternating splitting of the energy levels corresponding to opposite spin states and thus demonstrate that manganese telluride is neither a conventional antiferromagnet nor a conventional ferromagnet but belongs to the new altermagnetic branch of magnetic materials," says Juraj Krempasky, beamline scientist in the Beamline Optics Group at PSI and first author of the study.

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The topological insulator is a ferromagnet -- a type of magnet whose electrons spin the same way -- while FeTe is an antiferromagnet, whose electrons spin in alternating directions.

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