Fano effect

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English

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Etymology

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For Ugo Fano, Italian physicist.

Noun

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Fano effect (plural Fano effects)

  1. (physics) The polarization of the spin of electrons produced when alkali atoms absorb circularly polarized light; any of several similar quantum optical effects