Umklapp
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Umklapp is an adjective meaning (physics) Pertaining to the transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.
Meaning
(physics) Pertaining to the transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.
Example Sentences
It implies that our model is dual to a doped Mott system in one dimension where umklapp scattering is frozen at zero temperature.
They denoted this surface as the umklapp surface because of the importance of (n, n) umklapp scattering across this surface that occurs in the AF and the d-wave pairing channels.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quasiballistic, diffractive, upscattered, transplanckian, biphotonic, multiquanta.
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