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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photon statistics

Materials science; Material physics

Properties of light determined by detectors that either annihilate the photon or not. The former experiments are mainly done with detectors based on the photoelectric effect, whereas the latter are ...

hardness

Materials science; Material physics

Property of a solid determined by its ability to abrade or indent another solid.

coherence

Materials science; Material physics

Property of the density matrix. Coherences of the off-diagonal elements of the density matrix say something about the statistical properties of a quantum system.

Bell inequalities

Materials science; Material physics

Provide a test of quantum mechanics and its classical alternatives, the so-called local hidden variable theories. According to a paper published by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, in which they ...

optical Bloch equations

Materials science; Material physics

Provide an exact description of the state of a few-level atom interacting with a classical, oscillating electric field. The solutions to the first order, linear differential equations for the atomic ...

NEL steam tables

Materials science; Material physics

Provide data on the properties of water in its liquid and vapor phases for designers using steam, for example, as a working fluid in heat engines.

octane number

Materials science; Material physics

Provides an empirical measure of the ability of a fuel to resist pre-ignition in an internal combustion engine (also known as knocking). It is the volume percentage of isooctane (C 8 H 1 8) in pure ...