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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Dalgarno-Lewis method

Materials science; Material physics

Method developed by A. Dalgamo and J.T. Lewis (1955) that occasionally enables the second order perturbative correction to the energy of a state to be evaluated exactly.