spin glass

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Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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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