spin Hall effect
nounEtymology Named after American physicist Edwin Herbert Hall, who discovered the classical Hall effect, while its "spin" analogous phenomenon was predicted by Russian physicists Mikhail Dyakonov and Vladimir I. Perel in 1971
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The appearance of spin accumulation on the lateral surfaces of an electric current-carrying sample, the signs of the spin directions being opposite on the opposing boundaries.