ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Einstein–de Haas effect

Imagine you have a toy car that has a metal wheel. Now imagine you take a strong magnet and hold it close to the metal wheel. The magnet will pull the wheel towards it because metal is attracted to magnets.

Now, let's talk about atoms. Everything is made up of tiny particles called atoms. Atoms have some particles in them called electrons that spin around the nucleus (the center of the atom) just like the metal wheel spinning around the car.

When a magnet is near a metal wheel, the electrons in the metal begin to move. This is because the magnet is creating a magnetic field that is interacting with the electrons in the metal.

The Einstein-De Haas effect is when you take a bar magnet and attach it to one end of a metal rod. The rod is then suspended like a pendulum. When the magnet is turned, the metal rod starts to spin back and forth. This happens because the magnetic field from the magnet is interacting with the electrons in the metal rod and causing them to move and spin the rod.

So, in simpler terms, the Einstein-De Haas effect is when a magnet makes the electrons in a metal object move, which causes the object to spin. It's kind of like when you push a swing- you make it move by pushing it!