Material physics

Material physics

Material physics is the use of physics to describe materials in many different ways. It covers a number of related fields such as chemistry, solid mechanics, fluid dynamics, condensed matter, solid state physics, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, quantum optics, plasma physics, and thermodynamics.

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resistive ballooning mode

Materials science; Material physics

Pressure-driven mode in which instability is caused or significantly enhanced by electrical resistivity, and the perturbation is concentrated mostly on the outboard edge of a toroidal magnetic ...

inverse bremsstrhalung

Materials science; Material physics

Process in which electromagnetic waves are absorbed rather than emitted; this is the resistive damping of the electromagnetic wave that occurs due to enhanced electron-ion collisions. This mechanism, ...

recycling

Materials science; Material physics

Processes that result in plasma ions interacting with a surface and returning to the plasma again, usually as a neutral atom.

Wake fields

Materials science; Material physics

Produced in accelerators by electromagnetic interaction of charged beam particles and metallic surfaces of the beam chamber. These fields can change trajectory of beam particles. Wake fields depend ...

Robins effect

Materials science; Material physics

Produced when a lateral force on a rotating sphere from altered pressure forces is generated. The force is perpendicular to both the rotation axis and direction of fluid motion. Sometimes referred to ...

magnetic energy

Materials science; Material physics

Product of the magnetic field strength and flux density for points on the demagnetization curve of a permanent magnet which provides a measure of the energy generated in a magnetic circuit. The ...

Feynman path integral

Materials science; Material physics

Profound and remarkable reformulation of quantum mechanics by R.P. Feynman in 1948 (acting on P.A.M. Dirac's hint from 1933). In this formulation, the quantum mechanical amplitude necessary for a ...