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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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Material physics
The dynamic
Materials science; Material physics
Stark shift is sometimes also called the AC Stark shift due to its analogy to the Stark shift of atomic levels in DC fields.
super proton synchrotron
Materials science; Material physics
Started operating at the peak energy of 400 GeV in 1976 at CERN. Type 2B Type 3 Fermilab has a more advanced version of this machine.
gas
Materials science; Material physics
State (or phase) of matter in which the molecules are relatively far apart (spacing is of an order of magnitude larger than the molecular diameter) and are practically unrestricted by intermolecular ...
atomic level
Materials science; Material physics
States in the sub-manifold of an atomic state. Atomic levels are usually split by small perturbations, but the resulting energy defects of levels are much smaller than the energy defects between ...
dipole selection rule
Materials science; Material physics
States that electric dipole transitions in any system take place between levels that differ by, at most, one unit of angular momentum, except in the case where both levels have zero angular momentum. ...
Le Chatelier's principle
Materials science; Material physics
States that the criterion for thermodynamic stability is that the spontaneous processes induced by a deviation from equilibrium must be in a direction to restore the system to equilibrium.
