magnetic moment

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• electricity and magnetism
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    In magnetism: Fundamentals

    …of current loops is a magnetic dipole moment, the value of which is iA, the product of the current i and the area of the loop A. In addition, electrons, protons, and neutrons in atoms have a magnetic dipole moment associated with their intrinsic spin; such magnetic dipole moments represent

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    In magnetism: Paramagnetism

    …or molecules possess a permanent magnetic dipole moment. The magnetization of such matter depends on the ratio of the magnetic energy of the individual dipoles to the thermal energy. This dependence can be calculated in quantum theory and is given by the Brillouin function, which depends only on the ratio…

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    In crystal: Explanation of magnetism

    …its spin produces a small magnetic moment. Magnetic moments are small magnets with north and south poles. The direction of the moment is from the south to the north pole. In nonmagnetic materials the electron moments cancel, since there is random ordering to the direction of the electron spins. Whenever…

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• magnetic dipoles
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    In magnetic dipole

    The magnetic dipole moment may be thought of as a measure of a dipole’s ability to turn itself into alignment with a given external magnetic field. In a uniform magnetic field, the magnitude of the dipole moment μ is proportional to the maximum amount of torque…

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• magnetic susceptibility
  • In magnetic susceptibility

    Magnetic materials may be classified as diamagnetic, paramagnetic, or ferromagnetic on the basis of their susceptibilities. Diamagnetic materials, such as bismuth, when placed in an external magnetic field, partly expel the external field from within themselves and, if shaped like a rod, line up at…

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• metamaterials
  • In metamaterial

    …magnetic effect known as the magnetic dipole moment. The magnetic dipole moment induced in the SRR can be adjusted to be either in or out of phase with the external oscillating field, leading to either a positive or a negative magnetic permeability. In this way, artificial magnetism can be achieved…

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• molecular spectrum
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    In spectroscopy: Laser magnetic resonance and Stark spectroscopies

    …for molecules that possess permanent magnetic moments or electric dipole moments by using external magnetic or electric fields to bring the energy spacing between levels into coincidence with the frequency of the laser.

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• Mössbauer effect
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    In Mössbauer effect: Applications

    …of nuclear electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole moments. Both isomer shifts and hyperfine structure splittings are readily resolved in Mössbauer spectra. The energy width of a Mössbauer resonance provides a direct measurement of the width of the excited state involved in the gamma-ray emission and absorption process. From the width,…

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• physical metallurgy
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    In metallurgy: Magnetic properties

    …the atoms possess a permanent magnetic moment (they act like small bar magnets). In most solids, the direction of these moments is arranged at random. What is exceptional about ferromagnetic solids is that the interatomic forces cause the moments of neighbouring atoms spontaneously to align in the same direction. If…

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• quantum electrodynamics
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    In quantum mechanics: Quantum electrodynamics

    …the value for μ_e, the magnetic dipole moment of the free electron. Because the electron is spinning and has electric charge, it behaves like a tiny magnet, the strength of which is expressed by the value of μ_e. According to the Dirac theory, μ_e is exactly equal to μ_B =…

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• rock magnetism
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    In rock: Basic types of magnetization

    An electron has a magnetic dipole moment—which is to say that it behaves like a tiny bar magnet—and so when a group of electrons is placed in a magnetic field, the dipole moments tend to line up with the field. The effect augments the net magnetization in the direction…

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atomic and subatomic magnetic moments

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  In atom: Bohr’s shell model

  …to the orientation of their magnetic moments. In their experiment Stern and Gerlach found only two deflections, not the continuous distribution of deflections that would have been seen if the magnetic moment had been oriented in any direction. Thus, it was determined that the magnetic moment and the angular momentum…

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• atomic structure
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    In spectroscopy: Fine and hyperfine structure of spectra

    An electron has an intrinsic magnetic dipole moment and behaves like a tiny bar magnet aligned along its spin axis. Also, because of its orbital motion within the atom, the electron creates a magnetic field in its vicinity. The interaction of the electron’s magnetic moment with the magnetic field created…

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    In spectroscopy: Origins

    intrinsic angular momentum (spin) and magnetic moments because of the motions and intrinsic magnetic moments of their constituents, and the interactions of nuclei with the magnetic fields of the circulating electrons affect the electron energy states. As a result, an atomic level that consists of several states having the same…

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• ferrites
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    In ferrite

    In ferrites the magnetic moments of constituent atoms align themselves in two or three different directions. A partial cancellation of the magnetic field results, and the ferrite is left with an overall magnetic field that is less strong than that of a ferromagnetic material. This asymmetry on the…

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• ferromagnetism
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    In ferromagnetism

    …species of atoms possess a magnetic moment; that is, such an atom itself is an elementary electromagnet produced by the motion of electrons about its nucleus and by the spin of those electrons. Below the Curie point, atoms that behave as tiny magnets in ferromagnetic materials spontaneously align themselves. They…

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work of

• Alvarez
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    In Luis Alvarez

    …the first measurement of the magnetic moment of the neutron, a characteristic of the strength and direction of its magnetic field.

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• Bloch
  • In Felix Bloch

    …Physics in 1968) measured the magnetic moment of the neutron (a property of its magnetic field). Bloch worked on atomic energy at Los Alamos, N.M., and radar countermeasures at Harvard University during World War II.

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• Kusch
  • In Polykarp Kusch

    …his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of and innovations in quantum electrodynamics.

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• Stern and Gerlach
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    In Otto Stern

    …for his measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton.

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  • In Stern-Gerlach experiment

    …atomic and subatomic particles with magnetic polarity, performed in the early 1920s by the German physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach. In the experiment, a beam of neutral silver atoms was directed through a set of aligned slits, then through a nonuniform (nonhomogeneous) magnetic field (see Figure), and onto a…

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