Encyclopedia of physics

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• Riccardo Guida, Institut de Physique Théorique; CEA, IPhT; CNRS; Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Newly published articles in physics

• Franco Strocchi (2012) Spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum systems Scholarpedia, 7(1):11196.

• Rodney Gomes (2012) Kuiper belt dynamics Scholarpedia, 7(1):11034.

• Wolfgang Rindler (2012) Special relativity: mechanics Scholarpedia, 7(1):10905.

• Dima Shepelyansky (2012) Microwave ionization of hydrogen atoms Scholarpedia, 7(1):9795.

• Bryan Webber (2011) Parton shower Monte Carlo event generators Scholarpedia, 6(12):10662.

• Renaud Parentani, Philippe Spindel (2011) Hawking radiation Scholarpedia, 6(12):6958.

• Mark Raizen, Daniel A. Steck (2011) Cold atom experiments in quantum chaos Scholarpedia, 6(11):10468.

• Naoteru Gouda (2011) JASMINE Scholarpedia, 6(10):12021.

• Emmanuel Desurvire (2011) Optical amplification Scholarpedia, 6(10):11564.

• Franco Strocchi (2011) Spontaneous symmetry breaking in classical systems Scholarpedia, 6(10):11195.

• Roberto Artuso (2011) Kicked Harper model Scholarpedia, 6(10):10462.

• Steven K Lamoreaux (2011) Casimir Force Scholarpedia, 6(10):9746.

• Sheldon Goldstein, Travis Norsen, Daniel Victor Tausk, Nino Zanghi (2011) Bell's theorem Scholarpedia, 6(10):8378.

• Filomena Nunes (2011) Continuum-Discretised Coupled Channels methods Scholarpedia, 6(9):10497.

• Jay Robert Dorfman (2011) Density Expansions of Transport Coefficients for Gases Scholarpedia, 6(9):9628.

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Adler sum rule by Steven Adler Axial anomaly by Roman W. Jackiw Arnowitt-Deser-Misner formalism by Stanley Deser Arnowitt-Deser-Misner energy by Stanley Deser Attractor by John W. Milnor Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory by Leon Cooper and Dmitri Feldman Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin symmetry by Carlo M. Becchi and Camillo Imbimbo Bekenstein bound by Jacob D. Bekenstein Bekenstein-Hawking entropy by Jacob D. Bekenstein Bethe-Salpeter equation (origins) by Edwin E. Salpeter Bjorken scaling by Wu-Ki Tung Black ring by Roberto Emparan and Harvey Reall Bogoliubov-Parasiuk-Hepp-Zimmermann renormalization scheme by Dr. Klaus Sibold Calabi-Yau manifold by Shing-Tung Yau Caldeira-Leggett model by Amir O. Caldeira Cappelli-Itzykson-Zuber A-D-E Classification by Andrea Cappelli and Jean-Bernard Zuber Cascade and scaling by Gregory Falkovich Chaotic hypothesis by Giovanni Gallavotti Coherent state (Quantum mechanics), by John Klauder Color charge by Oscar W. Greenberg Cosmic X-ray sources by Riccardo Giacconi and Piero Rosati Cosmic background explorer by John C. Mather and Gary F Hinshaw Critical phenomena: field theoretical approach by Jean Zinn-Justin Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism by Thomas W B Kibble Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble mechanism (history) by Thomas W B Kibble Faddeev-Popov ghosts by Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev Fermi-Pasta-Ulam nonlinear lattice oscillations by Thierry Dauxois and Stefano Ruffo Fluctuations by Giovanni Gallavotti Fluctuation theorem by Giovanni Gallavotti Gauge invariance by Jean Zinn-Justin and Riccardo Guida Gauge theories by Gerard 't Hooft Giant magnetoresistance by Albert Fert Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani mechanism by Jean Iliopoulos Goodenough-Kanamori rule by John B. Goodenough Gutzwiller wave function by Florian Gebhard and Martin Gutzwiller

Hopf algebra and quantum fields by Dirk Kreimer Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation by Gino Biondini and Dmitry Pelinovsky Kondo effect by Jun Kondo and Alex Hewson Konishi anomaly by Kenichi Konishi Ising model: exact results by Barry McCoy Landshoff-Nachtmann model by Peter Landshoff Laser by Charles H. Townes and Jeff Hecht Lattice quantum field theory by Gernot Münster Lieb-Liniger model of a Bose Gas by Elliott Lieb Magnetism: mathematical aspects by Daniel C Mattis MHD turbulence by Peter Goldreich Mermin-Wagner theorem by H. Wagner and Ulrich Schollwoeck Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model by Giovanni Jona-Lasinio and Yoichiro Nambu Nonlinear schrodinger systems: continuous and discrete by Mark Ablowitz and Barbara Prinari Nonlinear sigma model by Sergei Ketov Padé approximant by George A. Backer Path integral by Jean Zinn-Justin Principle of least action by Chris Gray Renormalization group for non-relativistic fermions by Ramamurti Shankar Richtmyer-Meshkov instability and re-accelerated inhomogeneous flows by Oleg Schilling and Jeffrey W. Jacobs Second quantization by Carlo M Becchi Special relativity by Wolfgang A Rindler Spin-coefficient formalism by Ezra (Ted) Newman and Roger Penrose QCD evolution equations for parton densities by Guido Altarelli Quantum Chaos by Martin Gutzwiller Rayleigh-Taylor instability and mixing by Andrew W. Cook and David Youngs Scaling laws by Benjamin Widom Slavnov-Taylor identities by Andrei A. Slavnov Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov sum rules by Mikhail Shifman Time's arrow and Boltzmann's entropy by Joel L. Lebowitz Transition to Turbulence by P. Manneville and Y. Pomeau Turbulence by U. Frisch and R. Benzi Wightman quantum field theory by Raymond F. Streater Zinn-Justin equation by Jean Zinn-Justin

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Reviewed by: Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia

Accepted on: 2011-10-27 09:12:57 GMT