itinerance
nounEtymology From French itinérance. By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ance.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The (often chaotic) movement of electrons through a material
- Their precise role in the interplay between itinerance and localisation, long known to underpin Mottness in d-band oxides, has however received much less attention.2015, Mukul S. Laad, S. Koley, A. Taraphder, “Mott transitions and Novel Orders in Multi-Orbital Models: The Relevance of Structural "Double Exchange"”, in arXiv: