Explore: Magnetic Structures

The term magnetic structure of a material pertains to the ordered arrangement of magnetic spins, typically within an ordered crystallographic lattice.

reversed field pinch experiments. When a magnetic field contains magnetic helicity, it tends to form large-scale structures from small-scale ones. This process

that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other. Because both electric currents and magnetic moments of elementary

magnetic domain is a region within a magnetic material in which the magnetization is in a uniform direction. This means that the individual magnetic moments

application of neutron scattering to the determination of the atomic and/or magnetic structure of a material. A sample to be examined is placed in a beam of thermal

groups to crystal structures is motivated by Curie's Principle. Compatibility with a material's symmetries, as described by the magnetic space group, is

microscopic (exchange) interactions between the magnetic moments or spins may lead to antiferromagnetic structures. In the simplest case, one may consider an

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), is a spectroscopic technique

variation over an area is valuable in detecting structures obscured by overlying material. The magnetic variation (geomagnetic reversals) in successive

clouds. In atoms, hyperfine structure arises from the energy of the nuclear magnetic dipole moment interacting with the magnetic field generated by the electrons