List of concepts
This is an alphabetical list of the concepts in this knowledge base.
A
B
- BB84 protocol
- Bell state
- Bell’s theorem
- Beltrami identity
- Bernoulli’s theorem
- Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm
- Berry phase
- Binomial distribution
- Blasius boundary layer
- Bloch sphere
- Bloch’s theorem
- Boltzmann equation
- Boltzmann relation
- Bose-Einstein distribution
- Boussinesq wave theory
C
- CHSH inequality
- Calculus of variations
- Canonical ensemble
- Capillary action
- Cauchy principal value
- Cauchy strain tensor
- Cauchy stress tensor
- Cavitation
- Central limit theorem
- Conditional expectation
- Convolution theorem
- Coulomb logarithm
- Coupled mode theory
- Curvature
- Curvilinear coordinates
- Cylindrical parabolic coordinates
- Cylindrical polar coordinates
D
- Debye length
- Density of states
- Density operator
- Detailed balance
- Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm
- Dielectric function
- Diffie-Hellman key exchange
- Dirac delta function
- Dirac notation
- Dispersive broadening
- Drude model
- Dynkin’s formula
- Dyson equation
E
- Ehrenfest’s theorem
- Einstein coefficients
- Elastic collision
- Electric dipole approximation
- Electric field
- Electromagnetic wave equation
- Equation-of-motion theory
- Euler equations
- Euler-Bernoulli law
F
- Fabry-Pérot cavity
- Fermi’s golden rule
- Fermi-Dirac distribution
- Feynman diagram
- Fick’s laws
- Fourier transform
- Fredholm alternative
- Fundamental solution
- Fundamental thermodynamic relation
G
- GHZ paradox
- Grad-Shafranov equation
- Gram-Schmidt method
- Grand canonical ensemble
- Green’s functions
- Grönwall-Bellman inequality
- Guiding center theory
H
- Hagen-Poiseuille equation
- Hamiltonian mechanics
- Harmonic oscillator
- Heaviside step function
- Heisenberg picture
- Hellmann-Feynman theorem
- Hermite polynomials
- Hilbert space
- Holomorphic function
- Hooke’s law
- Hydrostatic pressure
I
J
K
L
- Lagrange multiplier
- Lagrangian mechanics
- Laguerre polynomials
- Landau quantization
- Langmuir waves
- Laplace transform
- Larmor precession
- Laser rate equations
- Laws of thermodynamics
- Lawson criterion
- Legendre polynomials
- Legendre transform
- Lehmann representation
- Lindhard function
- Lorentz force
- Lubrication theory
M
- Magnetic field
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Markov process
- Martingale
- Material derivative
- Matsubara Green’s function
- Matsubara sum
- Maxwell relations
- Maxwell’s equations
- Maxwell-Bloch equations
- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
- Meniscus
- Metacentric height
- Microcanonical ensemble
- Modulational instability
- Multi-photon absorption
N
O
P
- Parseval’s theorem
- Partial fraction decomposition
- Path integral formulation
- Pauli exclusion principle
- Planck’s law
- Prandtl equations
- Probability current
- Propagator
- Pulay mixing
Q
R
- Rabi oscillation
- Random phase approximation
- Random variable
- Rayleigh-Plateau instability
- Rayleigh-Plesset equation
- Reduced mass
- Rényi entropy
- Repetition code
- Residue theorem
- Reynolds number
- Ritz method
- Rotating wave approximation
- Runge-Kutta method
- Rutherford scattering
S
- σ-algebra
- SALT equation
- Schwartz distribution
- Screw pinch
- Second quantization
- Selection rules
- Self-energy
- Self-phase modulation
- Self-steepening
- Shor’s algorithm
- Simon’s algorithm
- Slater determinant
- Sokhotski-Plemelj theorem
- Spherical coordinates
- Spitzer resistivity
- Step-index fiber
- Stochastic process
- Stokes’ law
- Sturm-Liouville theory
- Superdense coding
T
- Thermodynamic potential
- Time-dependent perturbation theory
- Time-independent perturbation theory
- Time-ordered product
- Toffoli gate
- Two-fluid equations