spin glass

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Etymology

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From an analogy between the magnetic disorder in a spin glass and the positional disorder of conventional glass.

Noun

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spin glass (plural spin glasses)

  1. (physics) Any material in which the atomic spins are oriented at disordered but fixed directions
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