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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cnoidal wave

Materials science; Material physics

Periodic finite amplitude surface waves in shallow water whose shapes are given by the solution of the Korteweg-deVries equation.

Kármán vortex street

Materials science; Material physics

Periodic vortex wake behind a circular cylinder at moderate Reynolds numbers, 80 < Re < 200. The wake is characterized by regular vortical structures shed from opposite sides of the cylinder at a ...

isoelectronic

Materials science; Material physics

Pertains to atoms that have the same number of electrons.

Dyson series

Materials science; Material physics

Perturbative expansion of any Green's function or correlation function in an interacting quantum field theory as a sum of time-ordered products. First developed by F.J. Dyson in 1949.

Fermi liquid theory

Materials science; Material physics

Phenomenological theory of a Fermi liquid, developed by L.D. Landau from 1956 to 1958, with the assumption that the low lying excited states of such a system can be understood in terms of weakly ...