The fundamental science that studies matter, energy, and their interactions across time and space.
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Detection techniques, gamma-ray astronomy, X-ray astronomy, dark matter, neutrino physics, big bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic inflation, cosmic rays, galactic magnetic fields, supernovae, pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernova remnants, active galactic nuclei.
Maurice Garcia-Munoz
Thomas K. Gaisser
Malcolm S. Longair
Study of matter-light interactions at the atomic and molecular level.
Christopher J. Foot
Peter W. Atkins
Simon Hooker and Colin Webb
Application of physical principles to biological systems.
Philip Nelson
Rob Phillips
William Bialek
Newton's Laws, Lagrangian Mechanics, Hamiltonian Mechanics, variational principles, symmetries and conservation Laws, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory, classical field theory.
John R. Taylor
Herbert Goldstein
Vladimir Arnold
Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz
Unknown
Numerical methods and computer simulations in physics.
Mark Newman
Tao Pang
Alejandro Garcia
Study of matter in its condensed phases.
Charles Kittel
Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin
Frederick Seitz
Observational cosmology, cosmological principle, FLRW metric, Friedmann equations, cosmological models, big bang theory, inflationary cosmology, early universe dynamics, dark matter, dark energy, structure formation, baryogenesis, primordial nucleosynthesis, gravitational lensing.
Steven Weinberg
Scott Dodelson
Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Electrostatics, dielectrics, Laplace's equation, multipole expansion, magnetostatics, electrodynamics, Maxwell's equations, radiation, electromagnetic fields and matter, electromagnetic interactions, covariant formulation.
David J. Griffiths
John David Jackson
Donald E. Melrose
Julius Adams Stratton
Study of the behavior of fluids at rest or in motion
Unknown
Special relativity, Minkowski spacetime, tensor analysis, curved spacetime, Einstein's field equations, Schwarzschild solution, black holes, gravitational waves, Penrose diagrams, Kerr solution, black hole thermodynamics, Hawking radiation, Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse, nature of singularities.
James Hartle
Bernard Schutz
Sean Carroll
Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler
Stephen Hawking, George F. R. Ellis
Study of high-energy phenomena in the universe and their physical processes.
Malcolm S. Longair
Fulvio Melia
Mario Vietri
Felix A. Aharonian
Study of the largest structures and patterns in the universe.
Phillip James Edwin Peebles
Viatcheslav Mukhanov
T. Padmanabhan
Complex analysis, vector calculus, variational calculus, linear algebra, tensor algebra, group theory, differential equations, integral transforms, special functions, probability and statistics, stochastic processes, numerical analysis.
George B. Arfken, Hans J. Weber, Frank E. Harris
K. F Riley, Michael Hobson, Stephen John Bence
Mary L. Boas
Peter Szekeres
Sadri Hassani
Advanced mathematical methods and structures in physics.
Mikio Nakahara
Theodore Frankel
Robert Geroch
Richard Courant and David Hilbert
Study of atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions.
Kenneth S. Krane
John Lilley
W.S.C. Williams
Study of celestial objects through observational techniques and instruments.
D. Scott Birney
Steve B. Howell
Thomas L. Wilson
Study of light and its interactions with matter.
Eugene Hecht
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
Francis Weston Sears and Gerhard L. Longley
Study of fundamental particles and their interactions.
David Griffiths
Mark Thomson
Frank Close
Study of ionized gases and their collective behavior.
Francis F. Chen
Paul M. Bellan
Lyman Spitzer
Qubits, quantum gates, quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, quantum simulation, quantum cryptography, quantum machine learning, quantum annealing, optimization algorithms, topological quantum computing, quantum complexity theory, quantum hardware, quantum information theory.
Isaac Chuang, Michael Nielsen
Alexander Shen, Alexei Kitaev, and Mikhail N. Vyalyi
Shinil Cho
N. David Mermin
Mirco A. Mannucci, Noson S. Yanofsky
Eleanor Rieffel, Wolfgang Polak
Classical field theory, canonical quantization, scalar field theory, Klein-Gordon equation, Feynman propagator, S-Matrix, interacting fields, Wick's theorem, Feynman diagrams, renormalization, quantum electrodynamics, gauge symmetries, spontaneous symmetry breaking, electroweak theory, quantum chromodynamics, path integral formulation.
M. Peskin, D. Schroeder
Steven Weinberg
Mark Srednicki
Huzihiro Araki
Ashok Das
Lewis Ryder
Claude Itzykson, Jearn-Bernard Zuber
Steven H. Simon
McGreevy
Sidney Coleman
Study of information processing using quantum mechanical systems.
Ingemar Bengtsson, Karol Życzkowski
Gregg Jaeger
Mark M. Wilde
Dénes Petz
Schrodinger's equation, hydrogen atom, postulates, spin, bosons, fermions, Pauli exclusion principle, perturbation theory, Rayleigh-Ritz method, Wigner-Weyl transformation, WKB approximation, Klein-Gordon equation, Dirac equation, covariant formulation.
J. J. Sakurai, Jim Napolitano
Ramamurti Shankar
John S. Townsend
David J. Griffiths, Darrell F. Schroeter
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë
John von Neumann
L. A. Takhtadzhian
C. Cohen-Tannoudji
Study of matter in its solid phase and its physical properties.
Charles Kittel
Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin
J. M. Ziman
Entropy, ideal gas, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, partition function, canonical ensemble, quantum statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics, Bose-Einstein statistics, Bose-Einstein condensation, Fermi gas, Debye model, Ising model
Linda E. Reichl
Mehran Kardar
Mehran Kardar
A.J. Berlinsky, A. B. Harris
R.K. Pathria, Paul D. Beale
L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz
Study of the life cycles and evolution of stars.
Rudolf Kippenhahn
Dina Prialnik
Maurizio Salaris and Santi Cassisi
Study of one-dimensional quantum objects and unified theory of physics.
Barton Zwiebach
Joseph Gerard Polchinski
Michael B. Green, John H. Schwarz, Edward Witten
Michael B. Green, John H. Schwarz, Edward Witten
Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, John H. Schwarz
Laws of thermodynamics, temperature, heat, thermal equilibrium, work, energy conservation, heat capacity, heat engines, refrigerators, Carnot cycle, efficiency, entropy, reversible processes, thermodynamic potentials, phase transitions, ideal gas laws, kinetic theory of gases, solids, irreversible processes, blackbody radiation.
Daniel V. Schroeder
Charles Kittel
Frederick Reif
Major series of physics textbooks and lectures.
Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz
Arnold Sommerfield
Unknown
David Tong
Popular science and foundational physics books.
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Brian Greene
Brian Greene
Brian Greene
Max Tegmark
George Hrabovsky, Leonard Susskind
Roger Penrose
