magnetic potential

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. a scalar quantity, analogous to the electric potential, defined at each point in a given magnetic field to be equal to the work done in bringing a unit north pole from infinity to the point.

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Example Sentences

The essential idea of the experiment is to use microwaves at about 29 GHz to resonantly drive transitions from trapped to un-trapped states as anti-atoms traverse the bottom of the magnetic potential well.

From Nature

And if by the mechanical action of heat, brought to bear by means of a suitable machine, the sphere be torn from the magnet and again placed at a distance, a power of exerting a pull through that distance, and producing a new motion of the sphere, is thereby conferred upon the magnet; in this sense, and in this sense only, is the heat converted into magnetic potential energy.

From Project Gutenberg