Enrico Fermi ForMemRS (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for...
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The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its...
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Fermi–Dirac statistics is a type of quantum statistics that applies to the physics of a system consisting of many non-interacting, identical particles...
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A Fermi gas is an idealized model, an ensemble of many non-interacting fermions. Fermions are particles that obey Fermi–Dirac statistics, like electrons...
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In particle physics, Fermi's interaction (also the Fermi theory of beta decay or the Fermi four-fermion interaction) is an explanation of the beta decay...
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Fermionic condensate (redirect from Fermi condensate)
A fermionic condensate (or Fermi–Dirac condensate) is a superfluid phase formed by fermionic particles at low temperatures. It is closely related to the...
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of why there is no evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth (called the Fermi paradox) despite the high probability of it existing, Szilárd responded:...
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Beta decay (redirect from Fermi plot)
Press. LCCN 34001940. Venkataramaiah, P.; Gopala, K.; Basavaraju, A.; Suryanarayana, S. S.; Sanjeeviah, H. (1985). "A simple relation for the Fermi function"...
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crystal structure of YBCO or BSCCO). Therefore, the Fermi surface of HTSC is very close to the Fermi surface of the doped CuO2 plane (or multi-planes, in...
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propulsion, which became Project Orion. With Fermi, John Pasta, and Mary Tsingou, Ulam studied the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem, which became the...
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Pseudopotential (redirect from Fermi's pseudopotential)
because of the successful fits by Walter Harrison to the nearly free electron Fermi surface of aluminum (1958) and by James C. Phillips to the covalent energy...
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to be instrumental in the whole subject of Disordered Systems." Enrico Fermi Prize, 2002. "For his contributions to field theory and statistical mechanics...
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Free electron model (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Sommerfeld, who combined the classical Drude model with quantum mechanical Fermi–Dirac statistics and hence it is also known as the Drude–Sommerfeld model...
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Thomas–Fermi equation for the neutral atom is a second order non-linear ordinary differential equation, named after Llewellyn Thomas and Enrico Fermi, which...
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Galactic Center (redirect from Fermi bubbles)
gamma- and X-rays, were detected astride the Milky Way galaxy's core. Termed Fermi or eRosita bubbles, they extend up to about 25,000 light years above and...
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Gas in a box (redirect from Thomas-Fermi approximation)
statistics or Fermi–Dirac statistics, and considering the limit of a very large box, the Thomas–Fermi approximation (named after Enrico Fermi and Llewellyn...
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List of Nvidia graphics processing units (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
architecture, Fermi (microarchitecture) 1 Unified shaders: texture mapping units: render output units 2 To calculate the processing power see Fermi...
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readily move around, more technically there are no available states at the Fermi energy, the equilibrium energy of electrons. For historical reasons there...
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Curie (1935) - W. Debije (1936) - E. Fermi (1938), R. Kuhn (1938) - E. Lawrence (1939), L. Ruzicka (1940) G. de Hevesy (1943) - W. Pauli (1945) - P. Bridgman...
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alternatively using Fermi–Walker transport as a standard of non-rotation. If the coordinates are related to Fermi–Walker transport, the term Fermi coordinates...
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Metal–semiconductor junction (redirect from Fermi level pinning)
referred to as "Fermi level pinning" caused some point of the band gap, at which finite DOS exists, to be locked (pinned) to the Fermi level. This made...
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level up to which the electrons have filled is called the Fermi level. The position of the Fermi level with respect to the band structure is very important...
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nonrelativistic, non-interacting electrons and nuclei that obey Fermi–Dirac statistics. This Fermi gas model was then used by the British physicist Edmund Clifton...
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such as carbon nanotubes). Such a model is necessary as the commonly used Fermi liquid model breaks down for one dimension. The Tomonaga–Luttinger's liquid...
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position). They also made the connection to earlier numerical experiments by Fermi, Pasta, Ulam, and Tsingou by showing that the KdV equation was the continuum...
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Electronic band structure (section Names of bands near the Fermi level (conduction band, valence band))
value. The isosurface of states with energy equal to the Fermi level is known as the Fermi surface. Energy band gaps can be classified using the wavevectors...
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Leo Szilard (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Szilard moved to the United States in 1938, where he worked with Enrico Fermi and Walter Zinn on means of creating a nuclear chain reaction. He was present...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (category Enrico Fermi Award recipients)
to lecture, write, and work in physics, and in 1963 was given the Enrico Fermi Award as a gesture of political rehabilitation. In 2022, the U.S. government...
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Composite fermion (redirect from Fermi sea)
fermions make a Fermi sea. This Fermi sea has been observed at half filled Landau level in a number of experiments, which also measure the Fermi wave vector...
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Discovery of nuclear fission (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
nuclear transmutation. Enrico Fermi and his colleagues in Rome studied the results of bombarding uranium with neutrons, and Fermi concluded that his experiments...
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