dipole moment
noun
: the moment produced by a magnetic or electric dipole
especially
: the product of the distance between the two poles and the magnitude of either pole
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The strength of this field is the electron's magnetic dipole moment, and it has been measured to very high precision.
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Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
These four varying configurations of static and vibrating lattices [A-D] manifest in different dipole moments [graphs on right].
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
This charge separation is referred to as the electric dipole moment (EDM).
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
These violations should be apparent in the neutron’s electric dipole moment—a measure of the electric field that would arise if the positive charge inside the neutron resided closer to one end of the particle and the negative charge closer to the other.
—Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
The presence of phonons, of course, affects those lattices’s dipole moments as well.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
In the new paper, Vares and Persinger report a correlation between the strength of the earth’s magnetic dipole moment, atmospheric CO2, and global temperatures.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2015
The dipole moment basically is a way to describe the strength of a magnet, just like electric charge describes the strength of an electric interaction.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
Many of them also influence the electron's dipole moment.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2018
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Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
These four varying configurations of static and vibrating lattices [A-D] manifest in different dipole moments [graphs on right].
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
This charge separation is referred to as the electric dipole moment (EDM).
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
These violations should be apparent in the neutron’s electric dipole moment—a measure of the electric field that would arise if the positive charge inside the neutron resided closer to one end of the particle and the negative charge closer to the other.
—Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
The presence of phonons, of course, affects those lattices’s dipole moments as well.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
In the new paper, Vares and Persinger report a correlation between the strength of the earth’s magnetic dipole moment, atmospheric CO2, and global temperatures.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2015
The dipole moment basically is a way to describe the strength of a magnet, just like electric charge describes the strength of an electric interaction.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
Many of them also influence the electron's dipole moment.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2018
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