Itinerance

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The (often chaotic) movement of electrons through a material

    "Their precise role in the interplay between itinerance and localisation, long known to underpin Mottness in d-band oxides, has however received much less attention."

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"Their precise role in the interplay between itinerance and localisation, long known to underpin Mottness in d-band oxides, has however received much less attention."

Etymology

From French itinérance.

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