In­dex

$\cdot$ : No­ta­tions

$\times$ : No­ta­tions

$!$ : No­ta­tions

$\vert$ : No­ta­tions

$\vert\ldots\rangle$ : No­ta­tions

$\langle\ldots\vert$ : No­ta­tions

$\uparrow$ : No­ta­tions

$\downarrow$ : No­ta­tions

$\prod$ : 2.3 | No­ta­tions | No­ta­tions

$\int$ : No­ta­tions

$\to$ : No­ta­tions

$\vec{\phantom{a}}$ : No­ta­tions

$\widehat{\phantom{a}}$ : No­ta­tions

$'$ : No­ta­tions

$\nabla$ : No­ta­tions

$\mathop{\Box}\nolimits$ : No­ta­tions

$^*$ : No­ta­tions

$\raisebox{.3pt}{$<$}$ : No­ta­tions

$\raisebox{-.3pt}{$\leqslant$}$ : No­ta­tions

$\langle\ldots\rangle$ : No­ta­tions

$\raisebox{.3pt}{$>$}$ : No­ta­tions

$\raisebox{-.5pt}{$\geqslant$}$ : No­ta­tions

$[\ldots]$ : No­ta­tions

$\vphantom0\raisebox{1.5pt}{$=$}$ : No­ta­tions

$\vphantom0\raisebox{1.5pt}{$\equiv$}$ : No­ta­tions

$\vphantom0\raisebox{1.1pt}{$\approx$}$ : No­ta­tions

$\vphantom0\raisebox{1.5pt}{$\sim$}$ : No­ta­tions

$\propto$ : No­ta­tions

$\alpha$ : No­ta­tions

$\beta$ : No­ta­tions

$\Gamma$ : No­ta­tions

$\gamma$ : No­ta­tions

$\Delta$ : No­ta­tions

$\delta$ : No­ta­tions

$\partial$ : No­ta­tions

$\epsilon$ : No­ta­tions

$\epsilon_0$ : No­ta­tions

$\varepsilon$ : No­ta­tions

$\eta$ : No­ta­tions

$\Theta$ : No­ta­tions

$\theta$ : No­ta­tions

$\vartheta$ : No­ta­tions

$\kappa$ : No­ta­tions

$\Lambda$ : No­ta­tions

$\lambda$ : No­ta­tions

$\mu$ : No­ta­tions

$\nu$ : No­ta­tions

$\xi$ : No­ta­tions

${\mit\Pi}$ : No­ta­tions

$\pi$ : No­ta­tions

$\tilde\pi$ : No­ta­tions

$\rho$ : No­ta­tions

$\sigma$ : No­ta­tions

$\tau$ : No­ta­tions

$\Phi$ : No­ta­tions

$\phi$ : No­ta­tions

$\varphi$ : No­ta­tions

$\chi$ : No­ta­tions

$\Psi$ : No­ta­tions

$\psi$ : No­ta­tions

$\Omega$ : No­ta­tions

$\omega$ : No­ta­tions

21 cm line

de­riva­tion : A.39.5

in­tro : A.39.1

$A$ : No­ta­tions

Å : No­ta­tions

$a$ : No­ta­tions

$a_0$ : No­ta­tions

Abramowitz and Ste­gun (1965) : A.6.2 | A.6.2 | A.27 | A.29 | D.36.2.1 | D.77 | Ref­er­ences

ab­solute tem­per­a­ture : 6.5 | No­ta­tions

ab­solute value : 2.1 | No­ta­tions

ab­solute zero

nonzero en­ergy : 4.1.3

re­quires ground state : 11.1

ab­sorbed dose : 14.5.3

ab­sorp­tion and emis­sion

in­co­her­ent ra­di­a­tion : 7.8

ab­sorp­tiv­ity : 6.8

ac­cel­er­a­tion

in quan­tum me­chan­ics : 7.2.1

ac­cep­tors

semi­con­duc­tors : 6.23

ac­tinides : 5.9.7

acti­noids : 5.9.7

ac­tion : A.1.3

rel­a­tivis­tic : 1.3.2

ac­ti­va­tion en­ergy

nu­clear fis­sion : 14.14.1

rad­i­cals : 5.2.6

ac­tive view : A.19.1

ac­tiv­ity : 14.5.3

spe­cific : see de­cay rate

adi­a­batic

dis­am­bigua­tion : No­ta­tions

quan­tum me­chan­ics : 7.1.5

ther­mo­dy­nam­ics : 11.10

adi­a­batic sur­faces : 9.2.3

adi­a­batic the­o­rem

de­riva­tion : D.34

de­riva­tion and im­pli­ca­tions : A.16

in­tro : 7.1.5

ad­joint : No­ta­tions

ma­tri­ces : No­ta­tions

Aha­roni (2000) : N.22 | N.22 | Ref­er­ences

Aharonov-Bohm ef­fect : 13.1

Airy func­tions

ap­pli­ca­tion : A.27

con­nec­tion for­mu­lae : A.29

graphs : A.29

soft­ware : A.27

al­kali met­als : 5.9.7

al­ka­line met­als : 5.9.7

al­lowed tran­si­tion

in­tro : 7.4.3

al­lowed tran­si­tions

beta de­cay : 14.19.6.1

al­pha : see $\alpha$

al­pha de­cay : 14.3

data : 14.11.1

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

Gamow/Gur­ney and Con­don the­ory : 14.11.1

overview of data : 14.3

$Q$-value : 14.19.5

quan­tum me­chan­i­cal tun­nel­ing : 14.11

al­pha par­ti­cle : 14.11

am­mo­nia mol­e­cule : 5.3

am­pli­tude : No­ta­tions

quan­tum : 3.1

an­gle : No­ta­tions

an­gu­lar fre­quency : 7.10.4

an­gu­lar mo­men­tum : 4.2

ad­di­tion : 12.7

Cleb­sch-Gor­dan co­ef­fi­cients : 12.7

ad­vanced treat­ment : 12.

com­bi­na­tion

in­tro : 7.4.2

com­po­nent : 4.2.2

eigen­func­tions : 4.2.2

eigen­val­ues : 4.2.2

con­ser­va­tion in de­cays : 7.4.2

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 4.2.1

fun­da­men­tal com­mu­ta­tion re­la­tions

as an ax­iom : 12.2

in­tro : 4.5.4

lad­der op­er­a­tors : 12.3

lad­ders : 12.3

nor­mal­iza­tion fac­tors : 12.5

nu­clei

data : 14.15

op­er­a­tor

Carte­sian : 4.2.1

pos­si­ble val­ues : 12.4

spin : 5.4

square an­gu­lar mo­men­tum : 4.2.3

eigen­func­tions : 4.2.3

eigen­val­ues : 4.2.3

sym­me­try and con­ser­va­tion : 7.3

un­cer­tainty : 4.2.4

an­ions : 6.21.6

anom­alous mag­netic mo­ment : 13.4

nu­cle­ons

pion ex­pla­na­tion : 14.9

anti-bond­ing : 10.4

an­ti­bond­ing state

in­tro : 5.3

an­ti­com­mu­ta­tor : A.15.2

an­ti­lin­ear op­er­a­tor : A.19.2

an­tipar­ti­cles

move back­ward in time : A.14

an­ti­sym­metriza­tion re­quire­ment : 5.6

graph­i­cal de­pic­tion : 11.2

in­dis­tin­guish­able par­ti­cles : 11.2

num­ber of terms : 5.7

us­ing group­ings : 5.7

us­ing oc­cu­pa­tion num­bers : A.15.1

us­ing Slater de­ter­mi­nants : 5.7

an­tiu­ni­tary op­er­a­tor : A.19.2

as­tron­omy

spec­tral analy­sis : 6.27.1

as­ymp­totic free­dom

quarks : 7.5.2

atomic mass

con­ver­sion to nu­clear mass : 14.6

ver­sus nu­clear mass : 14.19.5

atomic mass unit : 14.6

atomic ma­trix el­e­ment : 7.7.2

atomic num­ber : 5.9 | 14.3

atoms

eigen­func­tions : 5.9.2

eigen­val­ues : 5.9.2

ground state : 5.9.3

Hamil­ton­ian : 5.9.1

Audi et al. (2003) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 14.12.6 | Ref­er­ences

Auger ef­fect

Meis­ner : N.35

Auger elec­trons : 14.20.6

Avalanche diode : 6.26

av­er­age

ver­sus ex­pec­ta­tion value : 4.4.1

Avo­gadro's num­ber : No­ta­tions

ax­ial vec­tor : A.20

az­imuthal quan­tum num­ber : 4.2.3

$B$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal B}$ : No­ta­tions

$b$ : No­ta­tions

Baier­lein (1999) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 11.1 | 11.2 | 11.14 | D.61 | N.23 | N.25 | Ref­er­ences

Balmer tran­si­tions : 4.3.3

band gap

and Bragg re­flec­tion : N.9

in­tro : 6.21.1

band struc­ture

cross­ing bands : 10.4

de­tailed ger­ma­nium struc­ture : 6.22.5

nearly-free elec­trons : 10.6

widely spaced atoms : 10.3.2

band the­ory

elec­trons per prim­i­tive cell : 6.21.2

in­tro : 6.21

barn : 14.17.1.2

baryon : 5.4

baryons : 7.5.2

ba­sis : No­ta­tions

crys­tal

in­tro : 6.22.5

di­a­mond : 10.4

lithium (BCC) : 10.3.1

NaCl (FCC) : 10.2

spin states : 5.5.6

vec­tors or func­tions : 2.6

zinc blende (ZnS) : 6.22.5

bat­tery : 6.16

BCC

lithium : 10.3.1

bec­querel : 14.5.3

Bell's the­o­rem : 8.2

cheat : 8.2

ben­zene mol­e­c­u­lar ring : 5.3

Berry's phase : A.16

Bertu­lani (2007) : 14.9 | 14.9 | 14.20.3 | A.25.8 | A.25.9 | A.42.2 | A.42.4 | A.45.4 | D.67 | N.14 | Ref­er­ences

beryl­lium-11

nu­clear spin : 14.12.6

Bessel func­tions

spher­i­cal : A.6.2

beta : see $\beta$

beta de­cay : 14.19

beta-plus de­cay

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

dou­ble

ex­pla­na­tion : 14.19.4

elec­tron cap­ture : 14.3

elec­tron emis­sion : 14.3

en­er­get­ics

data : 14.19.2

en­ergy re­lease data : 14.19.2

Fermi the­ory : A.45

for­bid­den de­cays : 14.19.6

in­tro : 14.3

in­verse beta de­cay : 14.3

K or L cap­ture : 14.3

lone neu­tron : 14.2.2

mo­men­tum con­ser­va­tion : A.45.6

nu­clei that do : 14.3

overview of data : 14.3

positron emis­sion : 14.3

$Q$-value : 14.19.5

su­per­al­lowed de­cays : 14.19.7

von Weizsaecker pre­dic­tions : 14.19.4

beta vi­bra­tion

nu­clei : 14.13.4.4

Bethe-von Weizsäcker for­mula : 14.10.2

Bethe (1964) : A.22.8 | A.22.8 | A.22.8 | A.22.8 | Ref­er­ences

Big Bang : A.19.6

bind­ing en­ergy

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 4.6.6

hy­dro­gen mol­e­c­u­lar ion : 4.6.6

hy­dro­gen mol­e­cule : 5.2.6

lithium hy­dride : 5.3

Biot-Savart law : 13.3.5

de­riva­tion : D.72.8

black­body ra­di­a­tion : 11.14.5

in­tro : 6.8

black­body spec­trum : 6.8

ex­tended de­riva­tion : 11.14.5

Blatt and Weis­skopf (1952) : 14.20.6 | 14.20.6 | Ref­er­ences

Blatt and Weis­skopf (1979) : 14.20.6 | 14.20.6 | Ref­er­ences

Bloch func­tion

nearly-free elec­trons : 10.6

one-di­men­sional lat­tice : 10.3.5

three-di­men­sional lat­tice : 10.3.10

Bloch wave

ex­pla­na­tion : 7.10.5

in­tro : 6.22.1

Bloch's the­o­rem : 10.3.5

body-cen­tered cu­bic : see BCC

Bohm

EPR ex­per­i­ment : 8.2

Bohr en­er­gies : 4.3.3

rel­a­tivis­tic cor­rec­tions : A.39

Bohr mag­ne­ton : 13.4

Bohr ra­dius : 4.3.4

Boltz­mann con­stant : No­ta­tions

Boltz­mann fac­tor : 11.5

bond

co­va­lent : 5.11.1

hy­dro­gen : 5.11.3

ionic : 5.11.5

pi : 5.11.2

po­lar : 5.11.3

sigma : 5.11.1

Van der Waals : 10.1

bond length

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 4.6.6

hy­dro­gen mol­e­c­u­lar ion : 4.6.7

hy­dro­gen mol­e­cule : 5.2.6

Born

ap­prox­i­ma­tion : A.30.3

Born se­ries : A.31

Born sta­tis­ti­cal in­ter­pre­ta­tion : 3.1

Born-Op­pen­heimer ap­prox­i­ma­tion

and adi­a­batic the­o­rem : 7.1.5

ba­sic idea : 9.2.2

de­riva­tion : 9.2

di­ag­o­nal cor­rec­tion : D.51

hy­dro­gen mol­e­c­u­lar ion : 4.6.1

hy­dro­gen mol­e­cule : 5.2.1

in­clude nu­clear mo­tion : 9.2.3

spin de­gen­er­acy : D.50

vi­bronic cou­pling terms : D.51

Bor­romean nu­cleus : 14.12.6

Bose-Ein­stein con­den­sa­tion

de­riva­tion : 11.14.1

in­tro : 6.6

rough ex­pla­na­tion : 6.6.1

su­per­flu­id­ity : N.21

Bose-Ein­stein dis­tri­b­u­tion

black­body ra­di­a­tion : 11.14.5

in­tro : 6.8

canon­i­cal prob­a­bil­ity : 11.5

for given en­ergy : 11.4

iden­tify chem­i­cal po­ten­tial : 11.13

in­tro : 6.7

bosons : 5.4

ground state : 6.4

sym­metriza­tion re­quire­ment : 5.6

bound states

hy­dro­gen

en­er­gies : 4.3.3

bound­ary con­di­tions

ac­cept­able sin­gu­lar­ity : N.5

hy­dro­gen atom : D.15

across delta func­tion po­ten­tial : A.27

at in­fin­ity

har­monic os­cil­la­tor : D.12

hy­dro­gen atom : D.15

im­pen­e­tra­ble wall : 3.5.4

ra­di­a­tion : A.27

ac­cel­er­at­ing po­ten­tial : A.27

three-di­men­sional : A.30

un­bounded po­ten­tial : A.27

Bq : 14.5.3

bra : 2.3 | No­ta­tions | No­ta­tions

Bragg dif­frac­tion

elec­trons : 10.7.2

Bragg planes

Bril­louin frag­ment bound­aries : 10.3.10

en­ergy sin­gu­lar­i­ties : 10.6.2

one-di­men­sional (Bragg points) : 10.3.7

X-ray dif­frac­tion : 10.7.2

Bragg re­flec­tion

and band gaps : N.9

Bragg’s law : 10.7.2

Breit-Wigner dis­tri­b­u­tion : 7.6.1

Bril­louin zone

first

FCC crys­tal : 6.22.5

in­tro : 6.22.4

one-di­men­sional : 10.3.7

three-di­men­sional : 10.3.10

broad­band ra­di­a­tion

in­tro : 6.27.2

built-in po­ten­tial : 6.24

$C$ : No­ta­tions

$\POW9,{\circ}$C : No­ta­tions

$c$ : No­ta­tions

canon­i­cal com­mu­ta­tion re­la­tion : 4.5.3

canon­i­cal Hartree-Fock equa­tions : 9.3.4

canon­i­cal mo­men­tum

canon­i­cal quan­ti­za­tion : A.15.6

in­tro : A.12

spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.3.2

with a mag­netic field : 13.1

canon­i­cal prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­b­u­tion : 11.5

canon­i­cal quan­ti­za­tion : A.15.6

canon­i­cal mo­men­tum : A.15.6

car­bon nan­otubes

elec­tri­cal prop­er­ties

in­tro : 6.21.4

in­tro : 5.11.4

Carnot cy­cle : 11.9

Carte­sian ten­sors : A.4

Casimir force : A.23.4

cat, Schrödinger’s : 8.1

cations : 6.21.6

Cauchy-Schwartz in­equal­ity : No­ta­tions

causal­ity

rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.2.2

spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.2.3

causal­ity prob­lem : A.15.9

cen­trifu­gal stretch­ing : 14.13.4.2

chain re­ac­tion : 14.14.1

charge

elec­tro­sta­t­ics : 13.3.1

charge an­ni­hi­la­tion op­er­a­tor : 14.18.1

charge con­ju­ga­tion

in­tro : 7.3

Wu ex­per­i­ment : 14.19.8

charge cre­ation op­er­a­tor : 14.18.1

charge in­de­pen­dence

nu­clear force : 14.1

charge states : 14.18.1

charge sym­me­try

ex­am­ple : 14.12.3

nu­clear force : 14.1

charge trans­fer in­su­la­tors : 6.21.2

chem­i­cal bonds : 5.11

co­va­lent pi bonds : 5.11.2

co­va­lent sigma bonds : 5.11.1

hy­bridiza­tion : 5.11.4

ionic bonds : 5.11.5

po­lar co­va­lent bonds : 5.11.3

pro­mo­tion : 5.11.4

sp$\POW9,{n}$ hy­bridiza­tion : 5.11.4

chem­i­cal equi­lib­rium

con­stant pres­sure : 11.12

con­stant vol­ume : 11.12

chem­i­cal po­ten­tial : 11.12

and dif­fu­sion : 6.16

in­tro : 6.14

and dis­tri­b­u­tions : 11.13

line up

Peltier cooler : 6.28.1

mi­cro­scopic : 11.13

chi : see $\chi$

Chue (1977) : A.11.2 | Ref­er­ences

Ci : 14.5.3

cir­cu­lar po­lar­iza­tion

from sec­ond quan­ti­za­tion : A.23.4

in­tro : 7.4.3

pho­ton wave func­tion : A.21.6

clas­si­cal : No­ta­tions

Clau­sius-Clapey­ron equa­tion : 11.12

Cleb­sch-Gor­dan co­ef­fi­cients : 12.7

and Wigner 3j sym­bols : N.13

com­put­ing us­ing re­cur­sion : D.65

ex­plicit ex­pres­sion : D.65

co­ef­fi­cient of per­for­mance : 11.9

co­ef­fi­cients of eigen­func­tions

eval­u­at­ing : 4.1.6

give prob­a­bil­i­ties : 3.4.2

time vari­a­tion : 7.1.2

col­lapse of the wave func­tion : 3.4.1

col­li­sion-dom­i­nated regime : 7.5.3

col­li­sion­less regime : 7.5.3

col­li­sions

dual na­ture : 7.5.3

color force : 14.1

in­tro : 7.5.2

com­mu­ta­tion re­la­tion

canon­i­cal : 4.5.3

com­mu­ta­tor : 4.5

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 4.5.2

com­mu­ta­tor eigen­value prob­lems : 12.3

com­mut­ing op­er­a­tors : 4.5.1

com­mon eigen­func­tions : 4.5.1

com­par­a­tive half-life : 14.19.6.3

com­plete set : 2.6

com­plete­ness re­la­tion : 2.7.1

com­plex con­ju­gate : 2.1

com­plex num­bers : 2.1

com­po­nent waves : 7.10.2

com­po­nents of a vec­tor : 2.2

Con­don and Odishaw (1958) : A.25.8 | A.25.9 | A.25.9 | Ref­er­ences

Con­don and Odishaw (1967) : A.25.1 | A.25.8 | A.25.8 | A.25.8 | A.25.9 | N.14 | Ref­er­ences

con­duc­tion band

in­tro : 6.21.1

con­duc­tiv­ity

ef­fect of light : 6.27.5

elec­tri­cal : 6.20

ionic : 6.21.6

con­fig­u­ra­tion mix­ing : 14.12.5

con­fine­ment : 6.12

quarks : 7.5.2

sin­gle par­ti­cle : 3.5.9

con­ju­gate mo­men­tum : see canon­i­cal mo­men­tum

con­ju­gate nu­clei : 14.18.2

con­nec­tion for­mu­lae : A.29 | A.29

con­ser­va­tion laws

and sym­me­tries : 7.3

con­served vec­tor cur­rent hy­poth­e­sis : A.45.4

con­tact po­ten­tial : 6.16

con­ti­nu­ity equa­tion

in­com­press­ible flow : A.43.2

con­travari­ant : 1.2.5

con­ven­tional cell : 10.3.10

con­ver­sion elec­tron : 14.20.6

Copen­hagen In­ter­pre­ta­tion : 3.4.1

cor­re­la­tion en­ergy : 9.3.5.4

cos : No­ta­tions

Coulomb bar­rier : 14.11.1

Coulomb con­di­tion

un­con­ven­tional de­riva­tion : A.22.8

Coulomb gage

in­stead of Lorenz gage : A.22.8

Coulomb gauge : A.21.2

clas­si­cal elec­tro­mag­net­ics : A.37

Coulomb in­te­grals : 9.3.3

Coulomb po­ten­tial : 4.3.1

Fermi de­riva­tion : A.22.8

Koulomb po­ten­tial

field the­ory de­riva­tion : A.22

Coulomb po­ten­tial en­ergy

de­riva­tion : D.37.4

cou­pling con­stant : A.45.2

co­va­lent bond

hy­dro­gen mol­e­c­u­lar ion : 4.6

co­va­lent solids : 10.4

co­vari­ant : 1.2.5

cre­ation­ists : N.25

cross prod­uct : No­ta­tions

crys­tal

ba­sis

di­a­mond : 10.4

NaCl (FCC) : 10.2

ionic con­duc­tiv­ity : 6.21.6

lat­tice : see lat­tice

lithium (BCC) : 10.3.1

one-di­men­sional

prim­i­tive trans­la­tion vec­tor : 10.3.5

trans­parency : 6.27.3

typ­i­cal semi­con­duc­tors : 6.22.5

crys­tal mo­men­tum : 6.22.1 | 6.22.4

con­ser­va­tion : 6.22.4

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 7.10.5

light-emit­ting diodes : 6.27.7

crys­tals

trans­la­tion op­er­a­tor : 7.10.5

curie : 14.5.3

curl : No­ta­tions | No­ta­tions

cylin­dri­cal co­or­di­nates : No­ta­tions

$D$ : No­ta­tions

$\vec{D}$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal D}$ : No­ta­tions

D : No­ta­tions

$d$ : No­ta­tions

$\vec{d}$ : No­ta­tions

${\rm d}$ : No­ta­tions

D’Alem­bert­ian : A.14 | No­ta­tions

Dal­ton : 14.6

Dar­win term : A.39.2

d block

pe­ri­odic ta­ble : 5.9.7

de Broglie re­la­tion : 6.18

de­riva­tion : A.14

De­bye model : 11.14.6

De­bye tem­per­a­ture : 11.14.6 | 11.15

de­cay con­stant : see de­cay rate | 14.5.3

de­cay rate : 14.5.3

not a prob­a­bil­ity : 7.5.3

phys­i­cal mech­a­nism : 7.5.3

spe­cific : 7.5.3

de­formed nu­clei : 14.13.3

de­gen­er­acy : 4.1.5

de­gen­er­acy pres­sure : 6.11

de­gen­er­ate semi­con­duc­tor : 6.23

de­layed neu­trons : 14.14.1

Delta : see $\Delta$

delta func­tion : 7.9.1

three-di­men­sional : 7.9.1

Delta par­ti­cles

in­tro : A.42.4

delta : see $\delta$

den­sity

mass : 11.7

mo­lar : 11.7

par­ti­cle : 11.7

den­sity of modes : 6.3

den­sity of states : 6.3

con­fined : 6.12

pe­ri­odic box : 6.19

de­ple­tion layer : 6.24

de­riv­a­tive : No­ta­tions

Desloge (1968) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ref­er­ences

de­ter­mi­nant : No­ta­tions

deu­terium : 14.2.3

deuteron

in­tro : 14.2.3

OPEP po­ten­tial : A.42.2

dia­mag­netic con­tri­bu­tion : 13.4

di­a­mond

band gap : 10.4

crys­tal struc­ture : 6.22.5

in­tro : 5.11.4

dif­fer­en­tial cross-sec­tion : A.30

di­men­sional analy­sis : A.11.2

dineu­tron

isospin : 14.18.1

not bound : 14.2.3

OPEP po­ten­tial : A.42.2

diode

semi­con­duc­tor : 6.24

diode laser : 6.27.7

di­pole

clas­si­cal elec­tro­mag­net­ics : 13.3.2

di­pole mo­ment

elec­tric

nu­clei : 14.17

mag­netic

clas­si­cal : 13.4

nu­clei : 14.17

di­pole strength

mol­e­cules : 10.1

di­pole tran­si­tion : 14.20.2

elec­tric

in­tro : 7.4.3

mag­netic

in­tro : 7.4.3

di­pole tran­si­tions

mag­netic

Hamil­ton­ian : D.39

dipro­ton

isospin : 14.18.1

not bound : 14.2.3

OPEP po­ten­tial : A.42.2

Dirac delta func­tion : 7.9.1

three-di­men­sional : A.22.1

Dirac equa­tion : 12.12

as a sys­tem : A.44

con­serves par­ity : A.44

hy­dro­gen atom

low speed ap­prox­i­ma­tion : D.81

non­rel­a­tivis­tic limit

no lin­ear al­ge­bra : A.44

ul­tra­rel­a­tivis­tic : A.44

Dirac gamma ma­tri­ces : A.36

Dirac no­ta­tion : 2.7.1

di­rect gap semi­con­duc­tor : 6.22.4

dis­crete spec­trum

ver­sus broad­band

in­tro : 6.27.2

dis­in­te­gra­tion con­stant : see de­cay rate | 14.5.3

dis­in­te­gra­tion rate : 14.5.3

dis­per­sion re­la­tion : 7.10.4

dis­tin­guish­able par­ti­cles

in­tro : 6.6 | 6.6.1

div : No­ta­tions

div(er­gence) : No­ta­tions

di­ver­gence the­o­rem : No­ta­tions | No­ta­tions

donors

semi­con­duc­tors : 6.23

dop­ing

semi­con­duc­tors : 6.23

Doppler shift

of light in vac­uum : 1.1.4

dose equiv­a­lent : 14.5.3

dot prod­uct : 2.3

dou­ble layer of charges

con­tact sur­faces : 6.16

dou­blet states : 5.5.6

dpm : 14.5.3

Du­long and Pe­tit law : 11.15

dy­namic phase : A.16

$E$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal E}$ : No­ta­tions

$e$ : No­ta­tions

e : No­ta­tions

Ed­monds (1957) : N.13 | Ref­er­ences

ef­fec­tive dose : 14.5.3

ef­fec­tive mass

from equa­tion of mo­tion : 7.10.5

one-di­men­sional ex­am­ple : 6.22.3

Ehren­fest the­o­rem : 7.2.1

$e^{{{\rm i}}ax}$ : No­ta­tions

eigen­func­tion : 2.5

eigen­func­tions

an­gu­lar mo­men­tum com­po­nent : 4.2.2

atoms : 5.9.2

har­monic os­cil­la­tor : 4.1.4

hy­dro­gen atom : 4.3.4

im­pen­e­tra­ble spher­i­cal shell : D.77

lin­ear mo­men­tum : 7.9.2

po­si­tion : 7.9.1

square an­gu­lar mo­men­tum : 4.2.3

eigen­value : 2.5

eigen­value prob­lems

com­mu­ta­tor type : 12.3

lad­der op­er­a­tors : 12.3

eigen­val­ues

an­gu­lar mo­men­tum com­po­nent : 4.2.2

atoms : 5.9.2

har­monic os­cil­la­tor : 4.1.3

hy­dro­gen atom : 4.3.3

im­pen­e­tra­ble spher­i­cal shell : D.77

lin­ear mo­men­tum : 7.9.2

po­si­tion : 7.9.1

square an­gu­lar mo­men­tum : 4.2.3

eigen­vec­tor : 2.5 | No­ta­tions

Ein­stein

dice : 3.4.2

sum­ma­tion con­ven­tion : 1.2.5

swiped spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.1.1

Ein­stein A and B co­ef­fi­cients : 7.8

Ein­stein's de­riva­tion : D.42

Ein­stein A co­ef­fi­cients

quan­tum de­riva­tion : A.24

Ein­stein B co­ef­fi­cients

quan­tum de­riva­tion : D.41

Ein­stein Podol­ski Rosen : 8.2

Ein­stein sum­ma­tion con­ven­tion

moral jus­ti­fi­ca­tion : A.22.4

elec­tric charge

elec­tron and pro­ton : 4.3.1

elec­tric di­pole ap­prox­i­ma­tion

ori­gin of the name : 7.7.2

elec­tric di­pole op­er­a­tor

in­tro : 7.7.2

elec­tric di­pole tran­si­tion

in­tro : 7.4.3

se­lec­tion rules : 7.4.4

rel­a­tivis­tic : 7.4.4

elec­tric mo­ment

nu­clei : 14.17

elec­tric mul­ti­pole

pho­ton states : A.21.7

elec­tric po­ten­tial

clas­si­cal de­riva­tion : 13.2 | D.72.1

quan­tum de­riva­tion : 13.1

rel­a­tivis­tic de­riva­tion : 1.3.2

elec­tri­cal con­duc­tion

in­tro : 6.20

elec­tro­chem­i­cal po­ten­tial

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 6.13

elec­tro­mag­netic field

Hamil­ton­ian : 13.1

Maxwell's equa­tions : 13.2

quan­ti­za­tion : A.23

elec­tro­mag­netic po­ten­tials

gauge trans­for­ma­tion : 1.3.2

elec­tro­mag­net­ics

de­riva­tion from scratch : A.22

elec­tron

in mag­netic field : 13.4

elec­tron affin­ity : 10.2

Hartree-Fock : 9.3.5.1

elec­tron cap­ture

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

elec­tron emis­sion : 14.3

elec­tron split ex­per­i­ment : 3.1

elec­troneg­a­tiv­ity : 5.9.4 | 10.2

elec­trons

lack of in­tel­li­gence : 6.11 | 6.25

El­liott (1969) : 14.18.4 | Ref­er­ences

El­lis (1999) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ref­er­ences

El­ton (1966) : A.42.3 | A.44 | D.43 | D.43 | D.43 | D.43.1 | Ref­er­ences

emis­sion rate

spon­ta­neous : see de­cay rate

emis­siv­ity : 6.8

en­ergy con­ser­va­tion : 7.1.3

en­ergy spec­trum

har­monic os­cil­la­tor : 4.1.3

hy­dro­gen atom : 4.3.3

en­ergy-time un­cer­tainty equal­ity

de­riva­tion : 7.2.2

vin­di­cated : 7.6.1

en­ergy-time un­cer­tainty re­la­tion : 7.2.2

de­cay of a state : 7.6.1

Man­delsh­tam-Tamm ver­sion : A.18

en­thalpy : 11.7

en­thalpy of va­por­iza­tion : 11.12

en­tropy : 11.10

de­scrip­tive : 11.8

EPR : 8.2

ep­silon : see $\epsilon$,$\varepsilon$

equipar­ti­tion the­o­rem : 11.15

equiv­a­lent dose : 14.5.3

eta : see $\eta$

Euler for­mula : 2.1

eV : No­ta­tions

even-even nu­clei

en­hanced sta­bil­ity : 14.3

Everett, III : 8.6

Everett, III (1973) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ref­er­ences

every pos­si­ble com­bi­na­tion : 5.1 | 5.5.1

ex­change force mech­a­nism

and two-state sys­tems : 7.5.2

nu­clear forces : A.42

ex­change in­te­grals : 9.3.3

ex­change op­er­a­tor : 5.2.6

ex­change terms

twi­light terms : 5.3

ex­changed

Las Ve­gas in­ter­pre­ta­tion : 6.1

ex­cited de­ter­mi­nants : 9.3.5.5

ex­ci­ton

in­tro : 6.27.3

ex­clu­sion prin­ci­ple : 5.7

ex­clu­sion-prin­ci­ple re­pul­sion : 5.10

ex­pec­ta­tion value : 4.4

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 4.4.2

sim­pli­fied ex­pres­sion : 4.4.3

ver­sus av­er­age : 4.4.1

ex­per­i­men­tal ev­i­dence : A.45.4

ex­po­nen­tial func­tion : No­ta­tions

ex­po­nen­tial of an op­er­a­tor : A.12

ex­po­sure : 14.5.3

ex­tended zone scheme : 10.5.2

in­tro : 6.22.4

ex­ten­sive vari­able : 11.7

ex­treme in­de­pen­dent par­ti­cle model : 14.12.4

ex­treme sin­gle-par­ti­cle model : 14.12.4

$F$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal F}$ : No­ta­tions

$f$ : No­ta­tions

face cen­tered cu­bic : see FCC

fac­to­r­ial : No­ta­tions

Fara­day cage

pro­posal for nu­clei : N.36

fast ion con­duc­tors : 6.21.6

f block

pe­ri­odic ta­ble : 5.9.7

F-cen­ter

in­tro : 6.27.4

fermi : 14.10.1

Fermi brim

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 6.13

Fermi de­cay : 14.19.6.1

Fermi en­ergy

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 6.13

elec­trons in a box : 6.10

Fermi fac­tor : 6.13

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 6.13

Fermi func­tion

in­tro : A.45.2

value : A.45.6

Fermi in­te­gral

in­tro : 14.19.6.3 | 14.19.6.3

value : A.45.6

Fermi level

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 6.13

line up

Peltier cooler : 6.28.1

Fermi sur­face

elec­trons in a box : 6.10

pe­ri­odic bound­ary con­di­tions : 6.18

pe­ri­odic zone scheme : 10.5.2

re­duced zone scheme : 10.5.2

Fermi tem­per­a­ture : 11.14.2

Fermi the­ory

com­par­i­son with data : 14.19.7

Fermi the­ory of beta de­cay : A.45

Fermi’s golden rule : 7.6.1 | A.45.5

Fermi-Dirac dis­tri­b­u­tion

canon­i­cal prob­a­bil­ity : 11.5

for given en­ergy : 11.4

iden­tify chem­i­cal po­ten­tial : 11.13

in­tro : 6.13

Fermi-Kurie plot : 14.19.7

fermi­ons : 5.4

an­ti­sym­metriza­tion re­quire­ment : 5.6

ground state : 6.9

in­trin­sic par­ity : A.44

Feyn­man di­a­grams : A.31

Feyn­man et al. (1965) : 1.3.1

Feyn­man et al. (1965) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 4.6.5 | 6.28.2 | A.15 | N.22

Feyn­man slash no­ta­tion : A.36

Feyn­man (1965) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ref­er­ences

Feyn­man (1998) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 6.6.1 | 11.5 | 11.10 | A.8 | A.9 | A.15 | N.21 | N.23 | N.23 | N.23 | Ref­er­ences

Feyn­man (2006) : 13.4 | 13.4 | 14.1 | A.15 | A.31 | A.39.1 | A.39.4 | Ref­er­ences

field emis­sion : 6.15

field op­er­a­tors : A.15.9

field strength ten­sor : A.22.7

filled shells : 12.9

fil­ter­ing prop­erty : 7.9.1

fine struc­ture : A.39.1

hy­dro­gen atom : A.39

fine struc­ture con­stant : A.39.1

in de­cay rates : A.25.6

first Bril­louin zone

in­tro : 6.22.4

first law of ther­mo­dy­nam­ics : 11.1 | 11.7

first-for­bid­den de­cays

beta de­cay : 14.19.6.2

fis­sion

en­er­get­ics : 14.7

spon­ta­neous

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

overview of data : 14.3

flop­ping fre­quency : 13.6.4

Flo­quet the­ory : 10.3.5

flu­o­rine-19

nu­clear spin : 14.12.6

flux : A.11.4

Fock op­er­a­tor : 9.3.4

Fock space kets

beta de­cay : A.45.1

Fock state : A.15.1

for­bid­den de­cays

beta de­cay : 14.19.6

for­bid­den tran­si­tion

in­tro : 7.4.3

for­bid­den tran­si­tions

al­pha de­cay : 14.11.3

force

in quan­tum me­chan­ics : 7.2.1

four-vec­tors : 1.2.4

Fourier analy­sis : 10.3.6

Fourier co­ef­fi­cients : D.8

Fourier in­te­gral : D.8

Fourier se­ries : D.8

one-di­men­sional : A.26

three-di­men­sional : A.26

Fourier trans­form : 7.10.4 | D.8

one-di­men­sional : A.26

three-di­men­sional : A.26

Fourier’s law

heat con­duc­tion : A.11.4

Fraun­hofer lines : 6.27.1

free path : 6.20

free-elec­tron gas

in­tro : 6.9

model for crys­tal struc­ture : 10.5

pe­ri­odic box

in­tro : 6.17

spe­cific heat : D.62

Frenkel de­fect : 6.21.6

$ft$-value : 14.19.6.3

func­tion : 2.2 | 2.2 | No­ta­tions

func­tional : A.2 | No­ta­tions

fun­da­men­tal com­mu­ta­tion re­la­tions

as an ax­iom : 12.2

or­bital an­gu­lar mo­men­tum : 4.5.4

spin

in­tro­duc­tion : 5.5.3

fun­da­men­tal so­lu­tion

Pois­son equa­tion : A.22.1

fu­sion

en­er­get­ics : 14.7 | 14.7

$G$ : No­ta­tions

$g$ : No­ta­tions

gage prop­erty : A.22.4

Galilean trans­for­ma­tion : 1.2.1

gal­lium ar­senide

crys­tal struc­ture : 6.22.5

Gal­vani po­ten­tial : 6.16

Gamma : see $\Gamma$

gamma de­cay

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

gamma func­tion : No­ta­tions

gamma ma­tri­ces

Dirac equa­tion : A.36

gamma rays

in­tro : 14.20

gamma vi­bra­tion

nu­clei : 14.13.4.4

gamma : see $\gamma$

Gamow the­ory : 14.11.1

Gamow-Teller de­cay : 14.19.6.1

gauge the­o­ries

ba­sic ideas : A.19.5

gauge trans­for­ma­tion

elec­tro­mag­netic po­ten­tials : 1.3.2

Gauss' the­o­rem : No­ta­tions

gen­er­al­ized co­or­di­nates : A.1.2

in­tro : A.12

gen­er­al­ized mo­men­tum : see canon­i­cal

gen­er­a­tor of ro­ta­tions : A.19.1

geo­met­ric phase : A.16

ger­ma­nium

crys­tal struc­ture : 6.22.5

de­tailed band struc­ture : 6.22.5

$g$-fac­tor : 13.4

Gibbs free en­ergy : 11.12

mi­cro­scopic : 11.13

glue­balls : 7.5.2

glu­ons : 7.5.2

Gove and Mar­tin (1971) : A.45 | A.45.6 | Ref­er­ences

grad : No­ta­tions

grad(ient) : No­ta­tions

gra­di­ent : No­ta­tions

grain : 10.3.1

grain bound­aries : 10.3.1

graphene

elec­tri­cal prop­er­ties

in­tro : 6.21.4

graphite

elec­tri­cal prop­er­ties

in­tro : 6.21.4

in­tro : 5.11.4

gravi­tons : 7.5.2

gray : 14.5.3

Green's func­tion

Lapla­cian : 13.3.4

Pois­son equa­tion : A.22.1

Grif­fiths (2005) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 4.2.2 | 8.2 | 12.2 | 13.4 | A.38.5 | D.15 | D.21 | D.64 | N.7 | N.23 | Ref­er­ences

Grif­fiths (2008) : A.15 | A.19.5 | A.19.5 | A.21.1 | A.21.2 | A.21.6 | N.2 | Ref­er­ences

ground state

ab­solute zero tem­per­a­ture : 6.5

atoms : 5.9.3

bosons : 6.4

fermi­ons : 6.9

har­monic os­cil­la­tor : 4.1.4

hy­dro­gen atom : 4.3.3 | 4.3.4

hy­dro­gen mol­e­c­u­lar ion : 4.6.7

hy­dro­gen mol­e­cule : 5.2.6 | 5.5.5 | 5.6

nonzero en­ergy : 4.1.3

group

in­tro : 1.2.6

group prop­erty

co­or­di­nate sys­tem ro­ta­tions : D.69

Lorentz trans­for­ma­tion : 1.2.6

group the­ory : 7.3

group ve­loc­ity : 7.10.4

in­tro : 7.10.3

Gupta-Bleuler con­di­tion : A.22.6

gy­ro­mag­netic ra­tio : 13.4

$H$ : No­ta­tions

$h$ : No­ta­tions

$\hbar$ : No­ta­tions

half-life : 7.5.3

halo nu­cleus : 14.12.6

halo­gens : 5.9.7

Hamil­ton­ian : 3.3

atoms : 5.9.1

clas­si­cal : A.1.4

elec­tro­mag­netic field : 13.1

gives time vari­a­tion : 7.1.1

har­monic os­cil­la­tor : 4.1.1

par­tial : 4.1.2

hy­dro­gen atom : 4.3.1

hy­dro­gen mol­e­c­u­lar ion : 4.6.1

hy­dro­gen mol­e­cule : 5.2.1

in ma­trix form : 5.8

num­ber­ing of eigen­func­tions : 3.3

one-di­men­sional free space : 7.10.1

rel­a­tivis­tic, non­quan­tum : 1.3.2

Hamil­ton­ian dy­nam­ics

re­la­tion to Heisen­berg pic­ture : A.12

Hamil­ton­ian per­tur­ba­tion co­ef­fi­cients : A.38.1

Han­kel func­tions

spher­i­cal : A.6.2

har­monic func­tions : D.14.3

har­monic os­cil­la­tor : 4.1

clas­si­cal fre­quency : 4.1

eigen­func­tions : 4.1.4

eigen­val­ues : 4.1.3

en­ergy spec­trum : 4.1.3

ground state : 4.1.4

Hamil­ton­ian : 4.1.1

par­tial Hamil­ton­ian : 4.1.2

par­ti­cle mo­tion : 7.11.4

har­monic poly­no­mi­als : 4.2.3

Hartree prod­uct : 5.7 | 9.3.1

in­tro : 6.1

Hartree-Fock : 9.3

Coulomb in­te­grals : 9.3.3

ex­change in­te­grals : 9.3.3

re­stricted

closed shell : 9.3.1

open shell : 9.3.1

spin-adapted con­fig­u­ra­tion : 9.3.1

un­re­stricted : 9.3.1

Hartree-Fock equa­tions

gen­eral : D.54

heat : 6.5 | 11.7

heat ca­pac­ity

va­lence elec­trons : 6.13

heat con­duc­tion

elec­trons : 6.21.5

heat flux den­sity

in­clud­ing Peltier ef­fect : A.11.4

omit den­sity : A.11.4

heavy wa­ter : 14.3

Heisen­berg

un­cer­tainty prin­ci­ple : 3.2

un­cer­tainty re­la­tion­ship : 4.5.3

he­lic­ity

de­f­i­n­i­tion : A.44

pho­ton : A.21.6

he­lion : 14.3

he­lium

Bose-Ein­stein con­den­sa­tion : 6.6

he­lium ion­iza­tion en­ergy : A.38.2

Hell­mann-Feyn­man the­o­rem : A.38.1

Helmholtz de­com­po­si­tion : A.22.8

Helmholtz equa­tion : D.31

Green's func­tion so­lu­tion : D.31

Helmholtz free en­ergy : 11.12

mi­cro­scopic : 11.13

Her­mit­ian con­ju­gate : 2.7.1

Her­mit­ian con­ju­gates

cre­ation and an­ni­hi­la­tion op­er­a­tors : A.15.2

Her­mit­ian ma­tri­ces : No­ta­tions

Her­mit­ian op­er­a­tors : 2.6

hexa­con­tate­tra­pole tran­si­tion : 14.20.2

hexa­de­ca­pole tran­si­tion : 14.20.2

hid­den vari­ables : 3.4.2 | 8.2

hid­den ver­sus nonex­ist­ing : 4.2.4

hi­ero­glyph : 10.7.1 | A.39.4

hole

nu­clear shell model : 14.12.3

holes

in shells : 12.9

light, heavy, split-off : 7.10.5

semi­con­duc­tors

holes per state : 6.23

holes per unit vol­ume : 6.23

in­tro : 6.21.3

Hol­stein (2001) : 10.1 | Ref­er­ences

Huang (2007) : 7.5.2 | 8.4 | Ref­er­ences

Hund's rules : 10.7.1

Hur­ley (1976) : D.54 | Ref­er­ences

hy­bridiza­tion : 5.11.4

hy­dro­gen

metal­lic : 6.21.2

non­metal : 6.21.2

hy­dro­gen atom : 4.3

eigen­func­tions : 4.3.4

eigen­val­ues : 4.3.3

en­ergy spec­trum : 4.3.3

ground state : 4.3.3 | 4.3.4

Hamil­ton­ian : 4.3.1

rel­a­tivis­tic cor­rec­tions : A.39

hy­dro­gen bonds : 5.11.3 | 10.1

hy­dro­gen mol­e­c­u­lar ion : 4.6

bond length : 4.6.7

ex­per­i­men­tal bind­ing en­ergy : 4.6.7

ground state : 4.6.7

Hamil­ton­ian : 4.6.1

shared states : 4.6.4

hy­dro­gen mol­e­cule : 5.2

bind­ing en­ergy : 5.2.6

bond length : 5.2.6

ground state : 5.2.6 | 5.5.5 | 5.6

Hamil­ton­ian : 5.2.1

hy­per­fine split­ting : A.39

hy­per­sphere : No­ta­tions

$I$ : No­ta­tions

$\Im$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal I}$ : No­ta­tions

$i$ : 2.2 | No­ta­tions

${\hat\imath}$ : No­ta­tions

${\rm i}$ : 2.1 | No­ta­tions

rec­i­p­ro­cal : 2.1

ideal gas

quan­tum de­riva­tion : 11.14.4

ther­mo­dy­namic prop­er­ties : 11.12

ideal gas law : 11.14.4

ideal mag­netic di­pole : 13.3.2

ide­al­ity fac­tor : 6.24

iden­ti­cal par­ti­cles : 5.6

iden­tity ma­trix : D.54

iden­tity op­er­a­tor : 2.7.1

iff : 2.3 | No­ta­tions

imag­i­nary part : 2.1

im­pact pa­ra­me­ter : A.30

im­pu­ri­ties

ionic con­duc­tiv­ity : 6.21.6

op­ti­cal ef­fects : 6.27.4

in­co­her­ent ra­di­a­tion

ab­sorp­tion and emis­sion : 7.8

in­com­press­ibil­ity

in­tro : 6.11

in­de­pen­dent par­ti­cle model : 14.12.4

in­dex no­ta­tion : No­ta­tions | No­ta­tions

in­tro : 1.2.5

in­di­rect gap semi­con­duc­tor : 6.22.4

in­dis­tin­guish­able

de­f­i­n­i­tion : A.15.1

in­dis­tin­guish­able par­ti­cles : 11.2

(anti) sym­metriza­tion re­quire­ment : 11.2

in­tro : 6.6 | 6.6.1

in­ner prod­uct

mul­ti­ple vari­ables : 2.7.2

in­ner prod­uct of func­tions : 2.3

in­ner prod­uct of vec­tors : 2.3

in­su­lated sys­tem : 11.10

in­su­la­tors

ex­am­ples : 6.21.2

in­te­ger : No­ta­tions

in­te­gral Schrödinger equa­tion : A.13

in­tel­li­gent de­sign­ers : N.25

in­ten­sive vari­able : 11.7

in­ter­me­di­ate vec­tor bosons : 7.5.2

in­ter­nal con­ver­sion : 14.20.6

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

in­tro : 14.20

in­ter­nal con­ver­sion co­ef­fi­cient : 14.20.6

in­ter­nal en­ergy : 11.7

in­ter­nal pair pro­duc­tion

in­tro : 14.20

in­ter­nal tran­si­tion

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

in­ter­pre­ta­tion

in­ter­pre­ta­tions : 3.4.1

many worlds : 8.6

or­tho­dox : 3.4

rel­a­tive state : 8.5

sta­tis­ti­cal : 3.4

in­ter­sti­tials

ionic con­duc­tiv­ity : 6.21.6

in­ter­val

spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity : see space-time in­ter­val

in­trin­sic semi­con­duc­tor : 6.23

in­trin­sic state

nu­clei : 14.13.4.1

in­verse : No­ta­tions

in­verse beta de­cay

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

in­ver­sion

par­ity op­er­a­tor : 7.3

ionic bonds : 5.11.5

ionic con­duc­tiv­ity : 6.21.6

ionic mol­e­cules : 10.2

ionic solids : 10.2

ion­iza­tion : 4.3.3

ion­iza­tion en­ergy : 10.2

Hartree-Fock : 9.3.5.1

he­lium : A.38.2

hy­dro­gen atom : 4.3.3

ir­ro­ta­tional : No­ta­tions

gra­di­ent of a scalar : No­ta­tions

vec­tor po­ten­tial : A.22.8

ir­ro­ta­tional flow : A.43.2

is­lands of iso­merism : 14.20.3

iso : No­ta­tions

iso­bar

nu­clei : 14.3

iso­baric ana­log states : 14.18.1

iso­baric mul­ti­plets : 14.18.1

iso­baric spin : 14.18

iso­lated : No­ta­tions

iso­lated sys­tem : 11.10

iso­mer : 14.20.3

iso­meric tran­si­tion

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

isospin : 14.18

beta de­cay : A.45.1

isother­mal at­mos­phere : 6.14

iso­tones : 14.3

iso­tope : 14.3

iso­topic spin : 14.18

i-spin : 14.18

$J$ : No­ta­tions

$j$ : No­ta­tions

${\hat\jmath}$ : No­ta­tions

$K$ : No­ta­tions

${\mathscr K}$ : No­ta­tions

K : No­ta­tions

$k$ : No­ta­tions

${\hat k}$ : No­ta­tions

$k_{\rm B}$ : No­ta­tions

kappa : see $\kappa$

K-cap­ture

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

Kelvin co­ef­fi­cient : 6.28.3

Kelvin heat : 6.28.3

Kelvin re­la­tion­ships

ther­mo­electrics : A.11.6

in­tro : 6.28.3

ket : 2.3 | No­ta­tions | No­ta­tions

ket no­ta­tion

spher­i­cal har­mon­ics : 4.2.3

spin states : 5.4

ki­netic en­ergy

nu­clear de­cay : 14.19.5

op­er­a­tor : 3.3

ki­netic en­ergy op­er­a­tor

in spher­i­cal co­or­di­nates : 4.3.1

Kit­tel (1996) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 6.22.5 | 10.3.10 | A.11.1 | A.15 | Ref­er­ences

Klein-Gor­don equa­tion : 12.12 | A.14

kmol : No­ta­tions

Koch and Holthausen (2000) : N.18 | N.18 | N.18 | Ref­er­ences

Koop­man's the­o­rem : 9.3.5.1

Kramers re­la­tion : D.83

Krane (1988) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 7.4.1 | 14.1 | 14.2.3 | 14.9 | 14.10.1 | 14.11.2 | 14.11.2 | 14.12.2 | 14.12.2 | 14.12.4 | 14.12.5 | 14.13.2 | 14.13.4.1 | 14.13.4.1 | 14.13.4.2 | 14.17.2.3 | 14.19.5 | 14.19.6.1 | 14.19.7 | 14.19.8 | 14.20.2 | 14.20.2 | 14.20.3 | A.25.8 | A.25.9 | A.41.1 | A.42.4 | A.45.4 | D.67 | D.78 | Ref­er­ences

Kro­necker delta : D.54

$L$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal L}$ : No­ta­tions

L : No­ta­tions

$l$ : No­ta­tions

$\ell$ : No­ta­tions

$\pounds$ : No­ta­tions

lad­der op­er­a­tors

an­gu­lar mo­men­tum : 12.3

La­grangian

for clas­si­cal fields : A.22.2

rel­a­tivis­tic : 1.3.2

sim­plest case : A.1.1

La­grangian den­sity : A.1.5

ex­am­ple : A.22.2

La­grangian dy­nam­ics

for clas­si­cal fields : A.22.2

La­grangian me­chan­ics : A.1

La­grangian mul­ti­pli­ers

de­riva­tions : D.48

for vari­a­tional state­ments : 9.1.3

Lamb shift : A.39 | A.39.4

Lambda : see $\Lambda$

lambda : see $\lambda$

Landé $g$-fac­tor : A.39.3

lan­thanides : 5.9.7

lan­thanoids : 5.9.7

Laplace equa­tion : D.72.2

so­lu­tion in spher­i­cal co­or­di­nates : A.43.2

so­lu­tions in spher­i­cal co­or­di­nates : D.14.3

Lapla­cian : No­ta­tions

Lar­mor fre­quency

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 13.6.2

Lar­mor pre­ces­sion : 13.6.3

laser

op­er­at­ing prin­ci­ple : 7.7

laser diode : 6.27.7

la­tent heat of va­por­iza­tion : 11.12

lat­tice

di­a­mond : 10.4

FCC : 10.2

prim­i­tive vec­tors : 6.22.5

in­tro : 10.2

lithium (BCC) : 10.3.1

NaCl : 10.2

one-di­men­sional : 10.3.2

prim­i­tive trans­la­tion vec­tor : 10.3.5

prim­i­tive trans­la­tion vec­tors

di­a­mond : 10.4

rec­i­p­ro­cal : see rec­i­p­ro­cal lat­tice

trans­la­tion op­er­a­tor : 7.10.5

unit cell : 10.2

zinc blende (FCC) : 6.22.5

law of mass ac­tion

semi­con­duc­tors : 6.23

L-cap­ture

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

Lebesgue in­te­gra­tion : A.26

LED : 6.27.7

length of a vec­tor : 2.3

Lennard-Jones po­ten­tial : 10.1

Casimir-Polder : 10.1

lep­ton num­ber

con­ser­va­tion : 7.3 | 14.19.1

life­time : 7.5.3 | 14.5.1

light wave

plane

ter­mi­nol­ogy : 7.7.1

light waves

clas­si­cal : 13.2

light-cone

spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.2.3

light-emit­ting diode : 6.27.7

light-emit­ting diodes

crys­tal mo­men­tum : 6.27.7

$\lim$ : No­ta­tions

lin­ear com­bi­na­tion : No­ta­tions

lin­ear de­pen­dence : No­ta­tions

lin­ear in­de­pen­dence : No­ta­tions

lin­ear mo­men­tum

clas­si­cal : 3.2

eigen­func­tions : 7.9.2

eigen­val­ues : 7.9.2

op­er­a­tor : 3.3

sym­me­try and con­ser­va­tion : 7.3

lin­ear po­lar­iza­tion

from Maxwell's equa­tions : 13.2

from sec­ond quan­ti­za­tion : A.23.4

in­tro : 7.4.3

pho­ton wave func­tion : A.21.6

liq­uid drop model

nu­clear bind­ing en­ergy : 14.10.2

nu­clear ra­dius : 14.10.1

nu­clei

in­tro : 14.10

lo­cal­ity

quan­tum field the­o­ries : A.22.3

lo­cal­iza­tion

ab­sence of : 7.10.2

Lon­don forces : 10.1

Casimir-Polder : 10.1

Lorentz fac­tor : 1.1.4

Lorentz force

de­riva­tion : D.6

spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.3.2

Lorentz in­vari­ant

field the­o­ries : A.22.4

Lorentz trans­form

im­proper : A.4

nonorthochro­nous : A.4

Lorentz trans­for­ma­tion : 1.2

de­riva­tion : D.4

group prop­erty : 1.2.6

group prop­erty de­riva­tion : D.5

in­dex no­ta­tion : 1.2.5

par­ity trans­for­ma­tion : A.4

time-re­ver­sal : A.4

Lorentz-Fitzger­ald con­trac­tion : 1.1.4

Lorentz[ian] pro­file : 7.6.1

Lorenz con­di­tion : A.21.2

clas­si­cal elec­tro­mag­net­ics : A.37

not Lorentz : A.22.5

un­con­ven­tional de­riva­tion : A.22.5

Lorenz gauge : A.21.2

clas­si­cal elec­tro­mag­net­ics : A.37

low­er­ing in­dices : A.4

lu­mi­nos­ity

par­ti­cle beam : A.30

Ly­man tran­si­tions : 4.3.3

$M$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal M}$ : No­ta­tions

M : No­ta­tions

$m$ : No­ta­tions

$m_{\rm e}$ : No­ta­tions

$m_{\rm n}$ : No­ta­tions

$m_{\rm p}$ : No­ta­tions

Mach­leidt (2001) : 14.9 | 14.9 | A.42.4 | Ref­er­ences

Madelung con­stant : 10.2

magic num­bers

40? : 14.12.2

and beta de­cay : 14.19.3

in­tro : 14.4

shell model : 14.12

mag­netic di­pole

ide­al­ized : 13.3.2

mag­netic di­pole mo­ment

clas­si­cal : 13.4

mag­netic di­pole tran­si­tion

in­tro : 7.4.3

se­lec­tion rules : 7.4.4

rel­a­tivis­tic : 7.4.4

mag­netic di­pole tran­si­tions

Hamil­ton­ian : D.39

mag­netic mo­ment

nu­clei : 14.17

mag­netic mul­ti­pole

pho­ton states : A.21.7

mag­netic quan­tum num­ber : 4.2.2

mag­netic spin anom­aly : 13.4

mag­netic vec­tor po­ten­tial

clas­si­cal de­riva­tion : D.72.7

in the Dirac equa­tion : D.74

quan­tum de­riva­tion : 13.1

rel­a­tivis­tic de­riva­tion : 1.3.2

mag­ni­tude : 2.1

main group

pe­ri­odic ta­ble : 5.9.7

ma­jor­ity car­ri­ers : 6.23

maser

am­mo­nia : 5.3

op­er­at­ing prin­ci­ple : 7.7

mass num­ber : 14.3

mass-en­ergy re­la­tion

de­riva­tion : 1.3.1

Dirac equa­tion : 12.12

fine-struc­ture : A.39.2

for nu­clei : 14.6

La­grangian de­riva­tion : 1.3.2

need for quan­tum field the­ory : A.15

match­ing re­gions : A.29

math­e­mati­cians : 1.2.5 | D.54

ma­trix : 2.4 | No­ta­tions

ma­trix el­e­ment : 7.5.3

max­i­mum prin­ci­ple

Laplace equa­tion : D.72.2

Maxwell re­la­tions : 11.12

Maxwell's equa­tions : 13.2

de­riva­tion from scratch : A.22

Maxwell-Boltz­mann dis­tri­b­u­tion

canon­i­cal prob­a­bil­ity : 11.5

for given en­ergy : 11.4

in­tro : 6.14

mean life­time : 14.5.1

mean value prop­erty

Laplace equa­tion : D.72.2

mea­sur­able val­ues : 3.4.1

mea­sure­ment : 3.4.1

Meis­ner

credit : N.35

mesic charge : A.42.3

me­son : 5.4

mesons : 7.5.2

met­al­loids : 5.9.7

com­pared to semi­met­als : 6.21.4

met­als : 10.3

ex­am­ples : 6.21.2

method of sta­tion­ary phase : D.44

met­ric pre­fixes : No­ta­tions

Minkowski met­ric : A.4

mi­nor­ity car­ri­ers : 6.23

mir­ror nu­clei : 14.10.1 | 14.18.2

beta de­cay : A.45.4

mass dif­fer­ence data : 14.19.3

mir­ror op­er­a­tor : A.9

mo­lar mass : 11.7

ver­sus mol­e­c­u­lar mass etc. : No­ta­tions

mole : 11.7

mol­e­c­u­lar mass : 11.7

ver­sus mo­lar mass etc. : No­ta­tions

mol­e­c­u­lar solids : 10.1

mol­e­cules

ionic : 10.2

mo­ment

elec­tro­mag­netic

nu­clei : 14.17

mo­men­tum con­ser­va­tion

beta de­cay : A.45.6

mo­men­tum space wave func­tion : 7.9.2

in­te­gral trans­form

one-di­men­sional : A.26

three-di­men­sional : A.26

Moszkowski es­ti­mate : A.25.8

Moszkowski unit : A.25.8

de­riva­tion : A.25.8

Moszkowski (1965) : A.25.1 | A.25.3 | A.25.7 | A.25.8 | A.25.8 | A.25.8 | A.25.9 | D.43.2 | N.14 | N.14 | Ref­er­ences

Mott in­su­la­tors : 6.21.2

mov­ing mass : 1.1.2

de­riva­tion : 1.3.1

La­grangian de­riva­tion : 1.3.2

mu : see $\mu$

mul­ti­pole ex­pan­sion : 13.3.3

mul­ti­pole tran­si­tion

in­tro : 7.4.3

$N$ : No­ta­tions

N : No­ta­tions

$n$ : No­ta­tions

n : No­ta­tions

nabla : No­ta­tions

nanoion­ics : 6.21.6

nat­ural : No­ta­tions

nat­ural width : 7.4.1

nearly-free elec­tron model : 10.6

nega­ton : 14.3

nega­tron : 14.3

neon-19

nu­clear spin : 14.12.6

Neu­mann func­tions

spher­i­cal : A.6.2

neu­trino

needed in beta de­cay : 14.19.5

neu­tri­nos

do not con­serve par­ity : A.44

he­lic­ity : A.44

no in­trin­sic par­ity : A.44

rel­a­tivis­tic the­ory : A.44

states like screws : A.44

neu­tron

in­tro : 14.2.2

mixed beta de­cay : 14.19.6.1

neu­tron emis­sion

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

neu­tron ex­cess : 14.3

neu­tron stars : 6.11 | 14.3

New­ton's sec­ond law

in quan­tum me­chan­ics : 7.2.1

New­ton­ian anal­ogy : 3.3

New­ton­ian me­chan­ics : 3.1

in quan­tum me­chan­ics : 7.2.1

ni­tro­gen-11

nu­clear spin : 14.12.6

NMR

spin one-half : 14.17.2.2

no­ble gas : 5.9.3

no­ble gases : 5.9.7

non canon­i­cal Hartree-Fock equa­tions : D.54

non­equi­lib­rium ther­mo­dy­nam­ics : A.11.4

nonex­ist­ing ver­sus hid­den : 4.2.4

non­ho­lo­nomic : A.16

Nord­heim rules : 14.15.3

norm of a func­tion : 2.3

nor­mal op­er­a­tors

are ab­nor­mal : No­ta­tions

nor­mal­ized : 2.3

nor­mal­ized wave func­tions : 3.1

n-p-n tran­sis­tor : 6.25

n-type semi­con­duc­tor : 6.23

nu : see $\nu$

nu­clear de­cay

overview of data : 14.3

nu­clear force : 14.1

nu­clear forces

pion ex­change mech­a­nism : A.42

nu­clear mag­netic res­o­nance : 13.6

nu­clear mag­ne­ton : 13.4 | 14.17.2.1

nu­clear par­ity

in­tro : 14.1

nu­clear ra­dius : 14.10.1

nu­clear re­ac­tions

an­tipar­ti­cles : 14.19.1 | 14.19.1

nu­clear spin

in­tro : 14.1

nu­clei

beta vi­bra­tion : 14.13.4.4

do not con­tain elec­trons : A.45.1

gamma vi­bra­tion : 14.13.4.4

in­ter­nal con­ver­sion : 14.20.6

in­tro : 14.3

liq­uid drop model

in­tro : 14.10

pair­ing en­ergy

ev­i­dence : 14.8

par­ity

data : 14.16

in­tro : 14.12.1

per­turbed shell model : 14.12.4

ro­ta­tional bands : 14.13.4

spin one-half : 14.13.4.3

spin zero : 14.13.4.4

shell model : 14.12

non­spher­i­cal nu­clei : 14.13.4.2

Rain­wa­ter-type jus­ti­fi­ca­tion : 14.12.1

shells

ev­i­dence : 14.8

spin

Nord­heim rules : 14.15.3

sta­ble odd-odd ones : 14.19.4

un­per­turbed shell model : 14.12.4

vi­brat­ing drop model

de­riva­tions : A.43

sta­bil­ity : 14.13.1

vi­bra­tional states : 14.13.2

nu­cleon num­ber : 14.3

nu­cle­ons : 14.1

O : No­ta­tions

OBEP : A.42.4

oblate spher­oid : 14.17.1.2

ob­serv­able val­ues : 3.4.1

oc­cu­pa­tion num­bers

beta de­cay : A.45.1

in­tro : 6.4

sin­gle-state : A.15.1

oc­tu­pole tran­si­tion : 14.20.2

oc­tu­pole vi­bra­tion

nu­clei : 14.13.2

odd-odd nu­clei

re­duced sta­bil­ity : 14.3

odd-par­ti­cle shell model : 14.12.4

Omega : see $\Omega$

omega : see $\omega$

one-bo­son ex­change po­ten­tial : A.42.4

one-di­men­sional free space

Hamil­ton­ian : 7.10.1

one-par­ti­cle shell model : 14.12.4

one-pion ex­change po­ten­tial : A.42.2

On­sager rec­i­p­ro­cal re­la­tions : A.11.6

OPEP : A.42.2

in­tro : 14.9

OPEP po­ten­tial

in­tro­duc­tion : A.42.2

loose de­riva­tion : A.42.3

op­er­a­tor

ex­po­nen­tial of an op­er­a­tor : A.12

op­er­a­tors : 2.4

an­gu­lar mo­men­tum com­po­nent : 4.2.2

Hamil­ton­ian : 3.3

ki­netic en­ergy : 3.3

in spher­i­cal co­or­di­nates : 4.3.1

lin­ear mo­men­tum : 3.3

po­si­tion : 3.3

pos­i­tive (semi)def­i­nite : D.33

po­ten­tial en­ergy : 3.3

quan­tum me­chan­ics : 3.3

square an­gu­lar mo­men­tum : 4.2.3

to­tal en­ergy : 3.3

op­po­site : No­ta­tions

or­bital : 9.3.1

or­bital an­gu­lar mo­men­tum

rel­a­tivis­tic cou­pling with spin : A.44

or­tho­dox in­ter­pre­ta­tion : 3.4

or­thog­o­nal : 2.3

or­tho­nor­mal : 2.3

or­tho­nor­mal ma­trix

in co­or­di­nate ro­ta­tions : A.3

$P$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal P}$ : No­ta­tions

${\mathscr P}$ : No­ta­tions

P : No­ta­tions

$p$ : No­ta­tions

p : No­ta­tions

par­ity

al­pha de­cay : 14.11.3

com­bi­na­tion

in­tro : 7.4.2

con­ser­va­tion in de­cays : 7.4.2

in­tro : 7.3

nu­clei

data : 14.16

in­tro : 14.12.1

or­bital

de­riva­tion : D.76

spher­i­cal har­mon­ics

de­riva­tion : D.14.2

sym­me­try and con­ser­va­tion : 7.3

vi­o­la­tion of con­ser­va­tion : 7.3

par­ity op­er­a­tor

spa­tial in­ver­sion : 7.3

par­ity trans­for­ma­tion : 7.3

as a Lorentz trans­for­ma­tion : A.4

par­ity vi­o­la­tion

Wu ex­per­i­ment : 14.19.8

Parr and Yang (1989) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | N.18 | Ref­er­ences

Par­se­val iden­tity

Fourier se­ries

one-di­men­sional : A.26

three-di­men­sional : A.26

Fourier trans­form

one-di­men­sional : A.26

three-di­men­sional : A.26

par­tial wave am­pli­tude : A.30.2

par­tial wave analy­sis : A.30.1

phase shifts : A.30.2

par­ti­cle

ten­sor : A.45.4

par­ti­cle ex­change

sym­me­try : A.9

par­ti­tion func­tion : 11.5

Paschen tran­si­tions : 4.3.3

pas­sive view : A.19.1

Paster­nack re­la­tion : D.83

Pauli ex­clu­sion prin­ci­ple : 5.7 | 9.3.1

atoms : 5.9.4

com­mon phras­ing : 5.9.4

Pauli re­pul­sion : 5.10

Pauli spin ma­tri­ces : 12.10

gen­er­al­ized : 12.11

p block

pe­ri­odic ta­ble : 5.9.7

Peltier co­ef­fi­cient : 6.28.1

Peltier ef­fect : 6.28.1

pe­ri­odic box : 6.17

a tricky ver­sion : A.22.8

beta de­cay : A.45.2

pe­ri­odic ta­ble : 5.9.4

full : 5.9.7

pe­ri­odic zone scheme : 10.5.2

in­tro : 6.22.4

per­ma­nents : 5.7

per­mit­tiv­ity of space : 4.3.1

per­pen­dic­u­lar bi­sec­tor : No­ta­tions

per­tur­ba­tion the­ory

he­lium ion­iza­tion en­ergy : A.38.2

sec­ond or­der : A.38.1

time de­pen­dent : 7.6

time-in­de­pen­dent : A.38

weak lat­tice po­ten­tial : 10.6.1

per­turbed shell model : 14.12.4

Pe­skin and Schroeder (1995) : A.15.9 | A.22.3 | A.22.6 | Web | Ref­er­ences

phase an­gle : No­ta­tions

phase equi­lib­rium : 11.12

phase shift

par­tial waves : A.30.2

phase speed : 7.10.2

phe­nom­e­no­log­i­cal nu­clear po­ten­tials : 14.9

Phi : see $\Phi$

phi : see $\phi$,$\varphi$

phonons : 11.15

nu­clei : 14.13.2

pho­to­con­duc­tiv­ity

in­tro : 6.27.5

pho­ton : 4.3.3 | No­ta­tions

en­ergy : 4.3.3

spin value : 5.4

wave func­tion : A.21.1

pho­tons

den­sity of modes : 6.3

pho­to­voltaic cell : 6.27.6

physi­cists : 1.2.2 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 4.3.4 | 5.9.7 | 5.9.7 | 6.9 | 6.11 | 6.13 | 6.16 | 6.22.1 | 6.22.4 | 6.22.5 | 6.23 | 6.28.2 | 7.1.5 | 7.2.2 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.4.2 | 7.4.3 | 7.4.3 | 7.4.4 | 7.5.2 | 7.5.2 | 7.5.3 | 7.6.1 | 7.7.2 | 7.8 | 9.2.3 | 9.3.5.4 | 9.3.5.5 | 10.3.5 | 10.3.10 | 10.7.1 | 13.2 | 13.3 | 13.4 | 13.4 | 14.1 | 14.1 | 14.1 | 14.1 | 14.2.4 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.5.1 | 14.5.3 | 14.6 | 14.11.1 | 14.11.2 | 14.12.1 | 14.12.4 | 14.17.1.2 | 14.18.2 | 14.19.8 | 14.20 | 14.20.3 | 14.20.5 | 14.20.6 | 14.20.6 | A.4 | A.4 | A.11.4 | A.19.2 | A.19.5 | A.22.4 | A.22.4 | A.22.4 | A.22.4 | A.22.6 | A.23 | A.25.8 | A.25.9 | A.30 | A.30 | A.30 | A.30.1 | A.30.2 | A.41.4 | A.45.1 | A.45.4 | A.45.4 | N.13 | N.14 | N.18 | N.18 | N.35 | No­ta­tions | No­ta­tions

hy­po­thet­i­cal short­com­ings : 1.2.3 | A.22.1

more or less re­deemed : 7.5.2 | 7.5.3 | 14.5.1 | 14.20.1 | D.14.1 | D.16.1

more or less trusted : A.42.3

re­deemed : 6.21.1 | 6.22.4 | A.39.1 | A.45.5

un­ver­i­fied short­com­ings : A.30.2

pi : see $\pi$

pi bonds : 5.11.2

pion ex­change

mul­ti­ple : A.42.4

pi­ons

in­tro : 14.9

Plancherel the­o­rem : A.26

Planck's black­body spec­trum : 6.8

Planck's con­stant : 3.3

Planck-Ein­stein re­la­tion : 4.3.3

de­riva­tion : A.14

p-n junc­tion : 6.24

p-n-p tran­sis­tor : 6.25

point charge

sta­tic : 13.3.1

pointer states : 4.3.4

Pois­son bracket : A.12

Pois­son equa­tion : 13.3.4

fun­da­men­tal so­lu­tion : A.22.1

Green's func­tion so­lu­tion

de­riva­tion : D.2

screened

Green's func­tion so­lu­tion : D.2.2

vari­a­tional de­riva­tion : A.22.1

po­lar bonds : 5.11.3

po­lar co­or­di­nates : No­ta­tions

po­lar vec­tor : A.20

po­lari­ton

Bose-Ein­stein con­den­sa­tion : 6.6

po­lar­iza­tion : see lin­ear po­lar­iza­tion, cir­cu­lar po­lar­iza­tion

poly-crys­talline : 10.3.1

pop­u­la­tion in­ver­sion : 7.7

po­si­tion

eigen­func­tions : 7.9.1

eigen­val­ues : 7.9.1

op­er­a­tor : 3.3

pos­i­tive (semi)def­i­nite op­er­a­tors : D.33

posi­ton : 14.3

positron emis­sion : 14.3

pos­si­ble val­ues : 3.4.1

potas­sium-40

de­cay modes : 14.19.4

po­ten­tial : No­ta­tions

ex­is­tence : D.72.1

po­ten­tial en­ergy

op­er­a­tor : 3.3

po­ten­tial en­ergy sur­faces : 9.2.3

Poynt­ing vec­tor : 13.2

pre­fixes

YZEPT­GMk­munpfazy : No­ta­tions

pres­sure : 11.7

Pre­ston and Bhaduri (1975) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 14.9 | 14.12.2 | 14.12.2 | 14.12.2 | 14.12.2 | 14.12.6 | 14.12.6 | 14.13.1 | 14.13.2 | 14.13.4.6 | 14.14.2 | 14.15.2 | 14.15.3 | 14.15.3 | 14.15.3 | 14.17.2.4 | 14.18.2 | A.25.8 | A.25.9 | A.42.2 | A.42.4 | A.42.4 | A.42.4 | A.42.4 | A.42.4 | D.67 | Ref­er­ences

prim­i­tive cell : 10.3.10

in band the­ory : 6.21.2

ver­sus unit cell : 6.22.5

prim­i­tive trans­la­tion vec­tor

one-di­men­sional : 10.3.5

prim­i­tive trans­la­tion vec­tors

FCC

in­tro : 6.22.5

lithium (BCC) : 10.3.10

rec­i­p­ro­cal lat­tice : 10.3.10

prim­i­tive vec­tors : see above

prin­ci­pal quan­tum num­ber : 4.3.2

prin­ci­ple of rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.1.3

prob­a­bil­i­ties

eval­u­at­ing : 4.1.6

from co­ef­fi­cients : 3.4.2

prob­a­bil­ity cur­rent : A.32

prob­a­bil­ity den­sity : 5.2.3

prob­a­bil­ity to find the par­ti­cle : 3.1

pro­jec­tion op­er­a­tor : 2.7.1

pro­late spher­oid : 14.17.1.2

pro­mo­tion : 5.11.4

nu­clei : 14.12.6

prompt neu­trons : 14.14.1

proper dis­tance : 1.2.2

as dot prod­uct : 1.2.4

proper time : 1.2.2

causal­ity : 1.2.3

pro­ton

in­tro : 14.2.1

pro­ton emis­sion

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 14.3

pseu­doscalar par­ti­cle : A.42.4

pseudovec­tor : A.20

pseudovec­tor par­ti­cle : A.42.4

Psi : see $\Psi$

psi : see $\psi$

p-type semi­con­duc­tor : 6.23

pure sub­stance : 11.

$p_x$ : No­ta­tions

Pythagorean the­o­rem : 1.2.2

$Q$ : No­ta­tions

$q$ : No­ta­tions

quadru­pole mo­ment

elec­tric

in­tro : 14.2.3

nu­clei : 14.17

in­trin­sic

nu­clei : 14.17.2.4

spin one-half : 14.17.2.2

quadru­pole tran­si­tion : 14.20.2

in­tro : 7.4.3

quadru­pole tran­si­tions

elec­tric

Hamil­ton­ian : D.39

se­lec­tion rules : 7.4.4

quadru­pole vi­bra­tion

nu­clei : 14.13.2

qual­ity fac­tor : 14.5.3

quan­tum chro­mo­dy­nam­ics : 14.1

in­tro : 7.5.2

quan­tum con­fine­ment : 6.12

sin­gle par­ti­cle : 3.5.9

quan­tum dot : 3.5.9

den­sity of states : 6.12

quan­tum elec­tro­dy­nam­ics

elec­tron g fac­tor : 13.4

Feyn­man's book : A.15

in­tro : 7.5.2

quan­tum field

de­f­i­n­i­tion : A.15.9

quan­tum field the­ory : A.15

Coulomb po­ten­tial de­riva­tion : A.22.8

Koulomb po­ten­tial de­riva­tion : A.22

quan­tum in­ter­fer­ence : 3.1

quan­tum me­chan­ics

ac­cel­er­a­tion : 7.2.1

force : 7.2.1

New­ton's sec­ond law : 7.2.1

New­ton­ian me­chan­ics : 7.2.1

ve­loc­ity : 7.2.1

quan­tum well : 3.5.9

den­sity of states : 6.12

quan­tum wire : 3.5.9

den­sity of states : 6.12

quark

spin : 5.4

quarks : 7.5.2 | 14.1

Dirac equa­tion : 12.12

pro­ton and neu­tron : 13.4

$Q$-value

al­pha and beta de­cay : 14.19.5

nu­clei : 14.11.2

$R$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal R}$ : No­ta­tions

$\Re$ : No­ta­tions

$r$ : No­ta­tions

${\skew0\vec r}$ : No­ta­tions

Rabi flop­ping fre­quency : 13.6.4

rad : 14.5.3

ra­di­a­tion

emis­sion and ab­sorp­tion : 7.7

quan­ti­za­tion : A.23

ra­di­a­tion prob­a­bil­ity : see de­cay rate

ra­di­a­tion weight­ing fac­tor : 14.5.3

ra­dioac­tiv­ity

in­tro : 14.3

ra­dium em­a­na­tion : 14.3

ra­dium X : 14.3

rais­ing in­dices : A.4

Ram­sauer ef­fect : 7.3

ran­dom num­ber gen­er­a­tor : 3.4.2

rare earths : 5.9.7

RaX : 14.3

Rayleigh for­mula

par­tial waves : A.6.3

spher­i­cal Bessel func­tions : A.6.2

RE : 14.3

real part : 2.1

rec­i­p­ro­cal : No­ta­tions

rec­i­p­ro­cal lat­tice

lithium : 10.3.10

NaCl : 10.3.10

one-di­men­sional : 10.3.7

prim­i­tive vec­tors : 10.3.10

three-di­men­sional : 10.3.10

re­com­bi­na­tion

semi­con­duc­tors : 6.23

re­com­bi­na­tion cen­ters : 6.24

re­duced mass

hy­dro­gen atom elec­tron : 4.3.1

re­duced zone scheme : 10.5.2

in­tro : 6.22.4

re­flec­tion co­ef­fi­cient : 7.13 | 7.13 | A.32

rel­a­tive state for­mu­la­tion : 8.6

rel­a­tive state in­ter­pre­ta­tion : 8.5

rel­a­tivis­tic cor­rec­tions

hy­dro­gen atom : A.39

Rel­a­tivis­tic ef­fects

Dirac equa­tion : 12.12

rel­a­tivis­tic mass : see mov­ing mass

rel­a­tivis­tic quan­tum me­chan­ics

beta de­cay : A.45.1

rel­a­tiv­ity : see spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity | No­ta­tions

rem : 14.5.3

resid­ual strong force : 14.1

re­sis­tiv­ity

elec­tri­cal : 6.20 | 6.20

res­o­nance fac­tor : 13.6.4

rest mass : 1.1.2

rest mass en­ergy : 1.1.2

de­riva­tion : 1.3.1

re­stricted Hartree-Fock : 9.3.1

re­versibil­ity : 11.9

RHF : 9.3.1

rho : see $\rho$

roent­gen : 14.5.3

rönt­gen : 14.5.3

rot : No­ta­tions | No­ta­tions

ro­ta­tional band

nu­clei : 14.13.4.2

ro­ta­tional bands

seenu­clei : 14.13.4

Roy Chowd­hury and Basu (2006) : 14.6 | 14.10.2 | Ref­er­ences

$S$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal S}$ : No­ta­tions

${\mathscr S}$ : No­ta­tions

S : No­ta­tions

$s$ : No­ta­tions

s : No­ta­tions

sat­u­rated : 11.12

s block

pe­ri­odic ta­ble : 5.9.7

scalar : No­ta­tions

scalar par­ti­cle : A.42.4

scat­ter­ing : 7.12

one-di­men­sional co­ef­fi­cients : 7.13

three-di­men­sional : A.30

scat­ter­ing am­pli­tude : A.30

Schirrma­cher (2003) : D.28 | Ref­er­ences

Schmets and Mont­frooij (2008) : 6.6.1 | N.21 | Ref­er­ences

Schmidt lines : 14.17.2.3

Schot­tky de­fect : 6.21.6

Schot­tky ef­fect : 6.15

Schrödinger equa­tion : 7.1

fail­ure? : 8.5

in­te­gral ver­sion : A.13

Schrödinger’s cat : 8.1

sec­ond law of ther­mo­dy­nam­ics : 11.8

sec­ond quan­ti­za­tion : A.15.6 | A.23

See­beck co­ef­fi­cient : 6.28.2

See­beck ef­fect : 6.28.2

seething caul­dron : A.23.4

se­lec­tion rules

de­riva­tion : D.39

elec­tric di­pole tran­si­tions : 7.4.4

rel­a­tivis­tic : 7.4.4

elec­tric quadru­pole tran­si­tions : 7.4.4

in­tro : 7.4.4

mag­netic di­pole tran­si­tions : 7.4.4

rel­a­tivis­tic : 7.4.4

self-ad­joint : No­ta­tions

self-con­ju­gate nu­clei : 14.18.2

self-con­sis­tent field method : 9.3.4

semi-con­duc­tors

band gap : 10.4

semi-em­pir­i­cal mass for­mula : 14.10.2

semi­con­duc­tor

de­gen­er­ate : 6.23

di­rect gap : 6.22.4

in­trin­sic : 6.23

in­tro : 6.21.3

n and p-type : 6.23

semi­con­duc­tor laser : 6.27.7 | 6.27.7

semi­con­duc­tors

com­pen­sa­tion : 6.23

con­duc­tion elec­trons per state : 6.23

con­duc­tion elec­trons per vol­ume : 6.23

crys­tal struc­ture : 6.22.5

dop­ing : 6.23

holes

in­tro : 6.21.3

holes per state : 6.23

holes per unit vol­ume : 6.23

semi­metal

in­tro : 6.21.4

sep­a­ra­tion of vari­ables : 4.1.2

for atoms : 5.9.2

lin­ear mo­men­tum : 7.9.2

po­si­tion : 7.9.1

shell model

with pair­ing : 14.12.4

with per­tur­ba­tions : 14.12.4

shell model of nu­clei : 14.12

shield­ing ap­prox­i­ma­tion : 5.9.2

Shock­ley diode equa­tion : 6.24

SI pre­fixes : No­ta­tions

siev­ert : 14.5.3

sigma : see $\sigma$

sigma bonds : 5.11.1

sil­i­con

crys­tal struc­ture : 6.22.5

sim­ple cu­bic lat­tice : 10.5.1

sin : No­ta­tions

sin­glet color state : 7.5.2

sin­glet state : 5.5.6

de­riva­tion : 12.6

Sitenko and Tar­takovskii (1997) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 14.12.2 | 14.13.1 | 14.13.4.1 | 14.13.4.3 | 14.13.4.4 | 14.13.4.6 | 14.17.2.4 | 14.17.2.4 | 14.17.3 | A.43.2 | Ref­er­ences

skew-Her­mit­ian : No­ta­tions

Slater de­ter­mi­nants : 5.7

small per­tur­ba­tion the­ory : 10.6.1

so­lar cell : 6.27.6

so­lar spec­trum : 6.27.1

so­le­noidal : No­ta­tions

vec­tor po­ten­tial : A.22.8

solid an­gle : A.30 | No­ta­tions

in­fin­i­tes­i­mal

spher­i­cal co­or­di­nates : No­ta­tions

solid elec­trolytes : 6.21.6

solids : 10.

co­va­lent : 10.4

ionic : 10.2

mol­e­c­u­lar : 10.1

spec­tra

in­tro : 6.27.2

sp$\POW9,{n}$ hy­bridiza­tion : 5.11.4

space charge re­gion : 6.24

space-like

spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.2.2

space-time

spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.2.4

space-time in­ter­val

am­bigu­ous de­f­i­n­i­tion : 1.2.2

causal­ity : 1.2.3

spa­tial in­ver­sion

par­ity op­er­a­tor : 7.3

spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.

canon­i­cal mo­men­tum : 1.3.2

causal­ity : 1.2.3

four-vec­tors : 1.2.4

dot prod­uct : 1.2.4

in terms of mo­men­tum : 1.1.2

in­dex no­ta­tion : 1.2.5

light-cone : 1.2.3

Lorentz force : 1.3.2

Lorentz trans­for­ma­tion : 1.2

Lorentz-Fitzger­ald con­trac­tion : 1.1.4

mass-en­ergy re­la­tion : 1.1.2

me­chan­ics

in­tro : 1.3.1

La­grangian : 1.3.2

mo­men­tum four-vec­tor : 1.3.1

proper dis­tance : 1.2.2

as dot prod­uct : 1.2.4

proper time : 1.2.2

rest mass en­ergy : 1.1.2

space-like : 1.2.2

space-time : 1.2.4

space-time in­ter­val : 1.2.2

su­per­lu­mi­nal in­ter­ac­tion : 1.2.3

time-di­la­tion : 1.1.4

time-like : 1.2.2

ve­loc­ity trans­for­ma­tion : 1.2.1

spe­cific ac­tiv­ity : 14.5.3

spe­cific de­cay rate : 14.5.1

spe­cific heat

con­stant pres­sure : 11.7

con­stant vol­ume : 11.7

val­ues : 11.15

spe­cific vol­ume : 11.7

mo­lar : 11.7

spec­tral analy­sis

in­tro : 6.27.1

spec­tral line broad­en­ing : 7.4.1

spec­trum : No­ta­tions

hy­dro­gen : 4.3.3

spher­i­cal Bessel func­tions : A.6.2

spher­i­cal co­or­di­nates : 4.2.2 | No­ta­tions

unit vec­tors : No­ta­tions

vol­ume in­te­gral : No­ta­tions

spher­i­cal Han­kel func­tions : A.6.2

spher­i­cal har­mon­ics

de­riva­tion : D.64

de­riva­tion from the ODE : D.14.1

de­riva­tion us­ing lad­ders : D.64

generic ex­pres­sion : D.14.1

in­tro : 4.2.3

Laplace equa­tion de­riva­tion : D.14.5

par­ity : D.14.2

spher­i­cal Neu­mann func­tions : A.6.2

spher­oid : 14.17.1.2

Spiegel and Liu (1999) : 3.5.5 | 3.5.5 | 3.5.5 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 6.8 | 11.14.1 | 11.14.5 | 13.2 | A.37 | A.39.2 | A.45.5 | D.7 | D.8 | D.8 | D.8 | D.8 | D.11 | D.12 | D.12 | D.12 | D.14.1 | D.14.1 | D.14.1 | D.14.1 | D.14.1 | D.15 | D.15 | D.15 | D.15 | D.15 | D.15 | D.15 | D.15 | D.34 | D.36.2.1 | D.36.2.3 | D.36.2.5 | D.36.2.5 | D.41 | D.62 | D.80 | D.80 | Ref­er­ences | No­ta­tions | No­ta­tions | No­ta­tions

spin : 5.4

fun­da­men­tal com­mu­ta­tion re­la­tions

in­tro­duc­tion : 5.5.3

nu­clei

data : 14.15

value : 5.4

$x$- and $y$-eigen­states : 12.10

spin down : 5.4

spin or­bital : 9.3.1

spin states

am­bi­gu­ity in sign : D.68

axis ro­ta­tion : D.68

spin up : 5.4

spin-adapted con­fig­u­ra­tion : 9.3.1

spin-or­bit in­ter­ac­tion

nu­cle­ons : 14.12.2

spinor : 5.5.1

spon­ta­neous emis­sion

mul­ti­ple ini­tial or fi­nal states : 7.6.1

quan­tum de­riva­tion : A.24

spon­ta­neous fis­sion : 14.14

Sproull (1956) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 6.22.3 | D.29 | N.22 | Ref­er­ences

Sred­nicki (2007) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | A.15.9 | A.15.9 | A.15.9 | A.15.10 | A.22.3 | Ref­er­ences

s state : 4.3.4 | 4.3.4

stan­dard de­vi­a­tion : 4.4

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 4.4.1

sim­pli­fied ex­pres­sion : 4.4.3

stan­dard model : 7.3

Stark ef­fect : A.38.5

sta­tion­ary states : 7.1.4

sta­tis­ti­cal in­ter­pre­ta­tion : 3.4

Stech (1952) : A.25.3 | D.43 | D.43 | N.14 | Ref­er­ences

Ste­fan-Boltz­mann for­mula : 11.14.5

Ste­fan-Boltz­mann law : 6.8

stera­di­ans : A.30

Stern-Ger­lach ap­pa­ra­tus : 13.5

sto­i­chio­met­ric co­ef­fi­cient : 11.12

Stokes' the­o­rem : No­ta­tions

Stone (2005) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ref­er­ences

string the­ory : A.15.9

strong force : 14.1

in­tro : 7.5.2

su­per­al­lowed beta de­cays : A.45.4

su­per­al­lowed de­cay

beta de­cay : 14.19.7

su­per­con­duc­tiv­ity : 6.21

Cooper pairs : 6.6

su­per­flu­id­ity

Feyn­man ar­gu­ment : 6.6.1

su­pe­ri­onic con­duc­tors : 6.21.6

su­per­lu­mi­nal in­ter­ac­tion

Bell's the­o­rem : 8.2

hid­den vari­ables : 8.2

many worlds in­ter­pre­ta­tion : 8.6

quan­tum : 3.1

do not al­low com­mu­ni­ca­tion : 8.2

pro­duce para­doxes : 8.2

rel­a­tivis­tic para­doxes : 1.2.3

sur­face ten­sion : 14.13.1

sym­metriza­tion re­quire­ment

fermi­ons : see an­ti­sym­metriza­tion

graph­i­cal de­pic­tion : 11.2

iden­ti­cal bosons : 5.6

in­dis­tin­guish­able par­ti­cles : 11.2

us­ing group­ings : 5.7

us­ing oc­cu­pa­tion num­bers : A.15.1

us­ing per­ma­nents : 5.7

sym­me­try : No­ta­tions

Sz­abo and Ostlund (1996) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 9.3.1 | 9.3.1 | 9.3.5 | 9.3.5.1 | 9.3.5.1 | D.54 | N.18 | N.18 | Ref­er­ences

$T$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal T}$ : No­ta­tions

$t$ : No­ta­tions

tan­ta­lum-180m : 14.20.2

tau : see $\tau$

tem­per­a­ture : 11.1 | No­ta­tions

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 11.4

Carnot : 11.9

de­f­i­n­i­tion us­ing en­tropy : 11.12

in­tro : 6.5

ten­sor par­ti­cle : A.45.4

ten­sor po­ten­tial

deuteron : A.41.4

ten­sors

com­pared to lin­ear al­ge­bra : A.4

in­tro : 1.2.5

ther­mal de Broglie wave­length : 11.14

ther­mal ef­fi­ciency : 11.9

ther­mal equi­lib­rium : 11.

thermionic emis­sion : 6.15

ther­mo­cou­ple : 6.28.2

ther­mo­dy­nam­ics

first law : 11.7

sec­ond law : 11.8

third law : 11.10

ther­mo­elec­tric gen­er­a­tor : 6.28.2

ther­mo­electrics

fig­ure of merit : A.11.2

macro­scopic equa­tions : A.11.4

ther­mo­gen­er­a­tor : 6.28.2

Theta : see $\Theta$

theta : see $\theta$,$\vartheta$

third law of ther­mo­dy­nam­ics : 11.10

Thom­son co­ef­fi­cient : 6.28.3

Thom­son ef­fect : 6.28.3

Thom­son re­la­tion­ships

ther­mo­electrics : A.11.6

in­tro : 6.28.3

throw the dice : 3.4.2

TID : 14.5.3

Tilley and Tilley (1990) : N.21 | N.21 | N.21 | Ref­er­ences

time

di­rec­tion­al­ity : 8.7

time sym­me­try

reser­va­tions : A.19.6

time vari­a­tion

Hamil­ton­ian : 7.1.1

time-de­pen­dent per­tur­ba­tion the­ory : 7.6

time-di­la­tion : 1.1.4

time-like

spe­cial rel­a­tiv­ity : 1.2.2

time-re­ver­sal

as a Lorentz trans­for­ma­tion : A.4

tin

white and grey : 6.21.2

tis­sue weight­ing fac­tor : 14.5.3

$T$-mul­ti­plets : 14.18.1

to­tal cross-sec­tion : A.30

to­tal en­ergy

op­er­a­tor : 3.3

to­tal ion­iz­ing dose : 14.5.3

tran­sis­tor : 6.25

tran­si­tion

mul­ti­pole

se­lec­tion rules : 14.20.2

mul­ti­pole names : 14.20.2

quadru­pole : see quadru­pole tran­si­tion

tran­si­tion el­e­ments : 5.9.7

tran­si­tion met­als : 5.9.7

tran­si­tion prob­a­bil­ity : see de­cay rate

tran­si­tion rate

spon­ta­neous : see de­cay rate

tran­si­tions

hy­dro­gen atom : 4.3.3

trans­la­tion op­er­a­tor

crys­tals : 7.10.5

trans­mis­sion co­ef­fi­cient : 7.13 | 7.13 | A.32

trans­par­ent crys­tals : 6.27.3

trans­pose

ma­tri­ces : No­ta­tions

trans­pose of a ma­trix : No­ta­tions

trans­verse gauge

clas­si­cal elec­tro­mag­net­ics : A.37 | A.37

trav­el­ing waves : see lin­ear po­lar­iza­tion

tri­akon­tadi­pole tran­si­tion : 14.20.2

tri­an­gle in­equal­ity : 7.4.2

triple al­pha process : 14.7

triple prod­uct : No­ta­tions

triplet states : 5.5.6

de­riva­tion : 12.6

tri­tium : 14.3

tri­ton : 14.3

tun­nel­ing : 7.12.2

field emis­sion : 6.15

Stark ef­fect : A.38.5

WKB ap­prox­i­ma­tion : 7.13

Zener diodes : 6.26

turn­ing point : 7.11.3

turn­ing points

WKB ap­prox­i­ma­tion : A.28

twi­light terms : 5.3

ex­change terms : 5.3

Lennard-Jones/Lon­don force : A.33

lithium hy­dride : 5.3

spon­ta­neous emis­sion : A.24

two state sys­tems

ground state en­ergy : 5.3

time vari­a­tion : 7.5.2

two-state sys­tems

atom-pho­ton model : A.24

$U$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal U}$ : No­ta­tions

$u$ : No­ta­tions

u : No­ta­tions

UHF : 9.3.1

un­cer­tainty prin­ci­ple

an­gu­lar mo­men­tum : 4.2.4

en­ergy : 4.1.4 | 7.1.4

Heisen­berg : 3.2

po­si­tion and lin­ear mo­men­tum : 3.2

un­cer­tainty re­la­tion­ship

gen­er­al­ized : 4.5.2

Heisen­berg : 4.5.3

uni­fied atomic mass unit : 14.6

unit cell

FCC : 10.2

in­tro : 10.2

lithium (BCC) : 10.3.1

ver­sus prim­i­tive cell : 6.22.5

zinc blende : 6.22.5

unit ma­trix : D.54 | No­ta­tions

unit vec­tors

in spher­i­cal co­or­di­nates : No­ta­tions

uni­tary

Fourier se­ries : A.26

ma­trix : D.54

time ad­vance op­er­a­tor : A.12

uni­tary ma­trix

in co­or­di­nate ro­ta­tions : A.3

uni­tary op­er­a­tor : A.19.2

uni­tary op­er­a­tors : No­ta­tions

uni­ver­sal gas con­stant : 11.12 | 11.15

uni­ver­sal mass unit : 14.6

un­per­turbed shell model : 14.12.4

un­re­stricted Hartree-Fock : 9.3.1

$V$ : No­ta­tions

${\cal V}$ : No­ta­tions

$v$ : No­ta­tions

$\vec{v}$ : No­ta­tions

va­can­cies

ionic con­duc­tiv­ity : 6.21.6

op­ti­cal ef­fects : 6.27.4

vac­uum en­ergy : 8.7 | A.15.1 | A.23.4

seething caul­dron : A.23.4

vac­uum state : A.15.1

va­lence band

in­tro : 6.21.1

val­ues

ob­serv­able : 3.4.1

Van der Waals forces : 10.1

Casimir-Polder : 10.1

vari­a­tional cal­cu­lus

worked out ex­am­ple : A.2

vari­a­tional method : 4.6.6

he­lium ion­iza­tion en­ergy : A.38.2

hy­dro­gen mol­e­c­u­lar ion : 4.6.6

hy­dro­gen mol­e­cule : 5.2.5

vari­a­tional prin­ci­ple : 9.1

ba­sic state­ment : 9.1.1

dif­fer­en­tial form : 9.1.2

La­grangian mul­ti­pli­ers : 9.1.3

vec­tor : 2.2 | No­ta­tions

vec­tor bosons : A.20

vec­tor par­ti­cle : A.42.4

vec­to­r­ial prod­uct : No­ta­tions

ve­loc­ity

in quan­tum me­chan­ics : 7.2.1

vi­bra­tional states

seenu­clei : 14.13.2

vi­bronic cou­pling terms : D.51

vir­ial the­o­rem : 7.2

vir­tual work : A.1.3

vis­cos­ity : 11.9

Volta po­ten­tial : 6.16

vol­ume in­te­gral

in spher­i­cal co­or­di­nates : No­ta­tions

von Weizsäcker for­mula : 14.10.2

W : No­ta­tions

$w$ : No­ta­tions

$\vec{w}$ : No­ta­tions

War­bur­ton and We­neser (1969) : 14.20.2 | 14.20.2 | Ref­er­ences

warp fac­tor : 1.2.3

wave func­tion : 3.1

mul­ti­ple par­ti­cles : 5.1

mul­ti­ple par­ti­cles with spin : 5.5.4

with spin : 5.5.1

wave num­ber : 2.5 | 3.5.5 | 7.10.4

Flo­quet : 10.3.5

Fourier ver­sus Flo­quet : 10.3.7

one-di­men­sional Fourier se­ries : A.26

one-di­men­sional Fourier trans­form : A.26

wave num­ber vec­tor

and lin­ear mo­men­tum : 6.18

Bloch func­tion : 10.3.10

Fourier se­ries : A.26 | A.26

Fourier trans­form : A.26

wave num­bers : 6.2

wave packet

ac­cel­er­ated mo­tion : 7.11.2

de­f­i­n­i­tion : 7.10.3

free space : 7.10 | 7.11.1

har­monic os­cil­la­tor : 7.11.4

par­tial re­flec­tion : 7.12.1

phys­i­cal in­ter­pre­ta­tion : 7.10.3

re­flec­tion : 7.11.3

wave vec­tor

con­ser­va­tion : 6.22.4

weak force

in­tro : 7.5.2

Wein­berg (2010) : 1.2.4 | A.19.2 | A.22.4 | Ref­er­ences

Weis­skopf es­ti­mates : A.25.8

com­par­i­son with data : 14.20.5

fig­ures : 14.20.4

Weis­skopf unit

de­riva­tion : A.25.8

Weis­skopf units : A.25.8

well

deuteron : A.41.1

Weyl neu­tri­nos : A.44

width

par­ti­cle de­cay : 14.1

width of a state : 7.4.1

Wigner 3j,6j and 9j co­ef­fi­cients : N.13

Wigner-Eckart the­o­rem : N.13

Wigner-Seitz cell : 10.3.10

Wilkin­son (1969) : 14.18.1 | 14.18.2 | 14.18.2 | 14.18.3 | Ref­er­ences

Wiringa et al. (1995) : A.41.2 | A.41.4 | Ref­er­ences

WKB ap­prox­i­ma­tion

con­nec­tion for­mu­lae : A.29

WKB con­nec­tion for­mu­lae : A.29

WKB the­ory : A.28

Woods-Saxon po­ten­tial : 14.12.1

work func­tion : 6.15

Wron­skian : A.32

W.u. : A.25.8

$X$ : No­ta­tions

$x$ : No­ta­tions

xi : see $\xi$

X-ray dif­frac­tion : 10.7.2

$Y$ : No­ta­tions

$Y_l^m$ : No­ta­tions

$y$ : No­ta­tions

Yariv (1982) : Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ac­knowl­edg­ments | Ac­knowl­edg­ments | 4.2.2 | 7.4.1 | 7.5.3 | 13.4 | N.23 | Ref­er­ences

yrast line : 14.13.4.4

YSZ : 6.21.6

yt­tria-sta­bi­lized zir­co­nia : 6.21.6

Yukawa po­ten­tial : A.42.1

loose de­riva­tion : A.42.1

$Z$ : No­ta­tions

$z$ : No­ta­tions

Zee (2003) : A.15 | A.22.1 | A.22.6 | A.44 | Ref­er­ences

Zee­man ef­fect : A.38.4

in­ter­me­di­ate : A.39.3

weak : A.39.3

Zener diode : 6.26

zero ma­trix : No­ta­tions

zero point en­ergy : 9.2.3

ze­roth law of ther­mo­dy­nam­ics : 11.1

zinc blende

crys­tal struc­ture : 6.22.5

ZnS : see zinc blende