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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density matrix

Materials science; Material physics

Reflects the statistical nature of quantum mechanics. Specifically, the density matrix, which is sometimes also called the statistical matrix, illustrates that any knowledge about a quantum ...

transition

Materials science; Material physics

Regime of flow which is between laminar and turbulent characterized by periods of intermittency where the flow field rapidly changes from one regime to the other and back again.

laminar flow

Materials science; Material physics

Regime of viscous flow in which the fluid follows well-defined layers (laminae). No macroscopic mixing takes place, but microscopic diffusion is possible. Laminar flow occurs for low Reynolds ...

wake

Materials science; Material physics

Region behind a body in a viscous flow where the flow field has a velocity deficit due to momentum loss in the boundary layer. In an irrotational upstream flow, vorticity generation in the boundary ...

loss cone

Materials science; Material physics

Region in velocity space of the plasma in a magnetic mirror device in which the charged particles have so much velocity parallel to the magnetic field that they pass through the magnetic mirror.

magnetic beach

Materials science; Material physics

Region in which magnetic field strength is decreasing to the extent that the ion cyclotron frequency decreases below the wave frequency, and ion cyclotron wave energy is thermalized by ion cyclotron ...