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  2. Heat transfer physics - Wikipedia

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    Electrons are affected by two thermodynamic forces [from the charge, ∇(E F /e c) where E F is the Fermi level and e c is the electron charge and temperature gradient, ∇(1/T)] because they carry both charge and thermal energy, and thus electric current j e and heat flow q are described with the thermoelectric tensors (A ee, A et, A te, and A ...

  3. Spin (physics) - Wikipedia

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    The conventional definition of the spin quantum number is s = ⁠ n / 2 ⁠, where n can be any non-negative integer. Hence the allowed values of s are 0, ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠, 1, ⁠ 3 / 2 ⁠, 2, etc. The value of s for an elementary particle depends only on the type of particle and cannot be altered in any known way (in contrast to the spin ...

  4. Excitation temperature - Wikipedia

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    The excitation temperature can even be negative for a system with inverted levels (such as a maser). In observations of the 21 cm line of hydrogen , the apparent value of the excitation temperature is often called the "spin temperature".

  5. Ballistic conduction - Wikipedia

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    Ballistic electrons behave like light in a waveguide or a high-quality optical assembly. Non-ballistic electrons behave like light diffused in milk or reflected off a white wall or a piece of paper. Electrons can be scattered several ways in a conductor. Electrons have several properties: wavelength (energy), direction, phase, and spin orientation.

  6. Stability of matter - Wikipedia

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    [5] In fact, if the ground-state energy behaves proportional to for some , then pouring two glasses of water would provide an energy proportional to () = (), which is enormous for large . A system is called stable of the second kind or thermodynamically stable when the free energy is bounded from below by a linear function of N {\displaystyle N} .

  7. Spin Nernst Effect - Wikipedia

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    The spin Nernst effect is a phenomenon of spin current generation caused by the thermal flow of electrons or magnons in condensed matter. Under a thermal drive such as temperature gradient or chemical potential gradient, spin-up and spin-down carriers can flow perpendicularly to the thermal current and towards opposite directions without the application of a magnetic field.

  8. Spin wave - Wikipedia

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    The combined effect of the two operators is therefore to propagate the rotated spin to a new position, which is a hint that the correct eigenstate is a spin wave, namely a superposition of states with one reduced spin. The exchange energy penalty associated with changing the orientation of one spin is reduced by spreading the disturbance over a ...

  9. Spin transition - Wikipedia

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    The most common way to induce a spin transition is to change the temperature of the system: the transition will be then characterized by a = (), where is the molar fraction of molecules in high-spin state. Several techniques are currently used to obtain such curves.