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This shift alters how the atoms interact with one another through dipolar exchange, which depends on their relative angles.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

"And because we can design how the defects are oriented, we can engineer them to exhibit non-zero dipolar interactions."

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

The result provides evidence that these fluctuations are reduced, which may explain why the dipolar structure is more ordered than in equilibrium, and why a ferroelectric state could be induced.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

Because Earth’s magnetic field is dipolar like a bar magnet and aligned roughly perpendicular to our world’s rotation, geomagnetic field lines extend most prominently from the vicinity of our planet’s North and South poles.

From Scientific American • Oct. 13, 2023

India under Lai Bahadur Shastri remains hung up on its dipolar destiny: karma and dharma.

From Time Magazine Archive