asperomagnetic state

asperomagnetic state

[a¦sper·ō‚mag′ned·ik ′stāt]

(solid-state physics)

The condition of a rare-earth glass in which the spins are oriented in fixed directions, with most nearest-neighbor spins parallel or nearly parallel, so that the spin directions are distributed in one hemisphere.

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