Néel's theory

Néel's theory

[′nā·elz ‚thē·ə·rē] (solid-state physics) A theory of the behavior of antiferromagnetic and other ferrimagnetic materials in which the crystal lattice is divided into two or more sublattices; each atom in one sublattice responds to the magnetic field generated by nearest neighbors in other sublattices, with the result that magnetic moments of all the atoms in any sublattice are parallel, but magnetic moments of two different sublattices can be different.