spin Hall effect

English

Etymology

Named after American physicist Edwin Herbert Hall, who discovered the classical Hall effect, while its "spin" analogous phenomenon was predicted by Russian physicists Mikhail Dyakonov and Vladimir I. Perel in 1971

Noun

spin Hall effect (plural spin Hall effects)

1. (physics) The appearance of spin accumulation on the lateral surfaces of an electric current-carrying sample, the signs of the spin directions being opposite on the opposing boundaries.

Further reading

• spin Hall effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia