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Quadrupole vs Antiferroquadrupole - What's the difference?

quadrupole | antiferroquadrupole |

As nouns the difference between quadrupole and antiferroquadrupole

is that quadrupole is quadripole, two-port network while antiferroquadrupole is (physics) antiferromagnetic quadrupole.

quadrupole

English

(wikipedia quadrupole)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physics) A distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to two dipoles that point in opposite directions.
  • * 1975 , David M. Cook, The Theory of the Electromagnetic Field , page 123,
    • Consider a linear quadrupole consisting of a point charge of strength 2q'' at the origin and point charges of strength —''q'' at (0, 0, ''a'') and (0, 0, —''a ).
  • (physics) A magnet with two north poles and two south poles, used to focus a beam of particles.

    • Related terms

    * quadrupolar * octupole

    See also

    * quadripole

    antiferroquadrupole

    English

    Alternative forms

    * antiferro-quadrupole

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) antiferromagnetic quadrupole