Full S-matrix phase from a classical soliton delay Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-11-05
A narrow outgoing energy packet has phase , so stationary phase gives the arrival shift . For two equal-mass solitons with relative rapidity , . The convention instead gives . Classical time delays determine only the energy-dependent phase difference, not its constant branch.
Full-zone fermionic Nambu energy counting Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
If the traceless matrix has eigenvalues and the Nambu spinor includes an opposite-momentum creation operator, a full-zone sum contains both partners. Its physical quasiparticle energy is , not . The negative term becomes a vacuum constant only after normal ordering. In the Ising-chain Nambu spinor, . A half-zone calculation instead groups one complete two-mode block; changing the momentum range without changing the normalization is inconsistent.
Galactic feedback 2026-10-20
galactic feedback couples star formation or black-hole accretion to the surrounding gas through energy, momentum and mass exchange. It includes stellar feedback and active-galactic-nucleus feedback. A feedback loop may heat, stir, expel or compress gas, so its sign depends on how the gas supply and cooling respond; energy injection alone does not establish a lasting reduction of star formation.
Galactic wind 2026-11-05
A galactic wind is a large-scale flow carrying gas, energy and momentum away from a galaxy. Stellar winds and supernovae can maintain a hot, pressurized component that expands out of a star-forming region; an active galactic nucleus can supply another driving mechanism. Cooler entrained gas can coexist with the hot component.
Observations must distinguish the wind from unrelated point sources and foreground emission. In M82, ROSAT measurements separated extended soft X-ray emission from compact sources and traced emission away from the galactic plane. The emitting gas need not be the freely expanding wind itself: shocked clouds can dominate the detected radiation.[ref]
ROSAT Observations of the Galactic Wind in M82 by Dave Strickland and others. Abstract, spatial separation and comparison of free-wind and shocked-cloud emission
Galaxy Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants and usually gas, interstellar dust and a substantial dark matter component. Its appearance reflects both its contents and their motion: a spiral galaxy has a rotating galactic disk, whereas an elliptical galaxy is largely supported by disordered stellar motion. Star formation makes luminous young populations from gas, while stellar feedback returns material and energy to the interstellar medium. A photograph therefore samples only part of the system: galaxy dynamics uses motions to constrain the underlying mass, including matter that emits little light. Spiral arms also redistribute angular momentum and changes the galactic disk over time.[ref]
Spirals in Galaxies by Jerry A. Sellwood and Karen L. Masters. Abstract and discussion of disk dynamics: spiral activity, stellar random motion and the dissipative gas component
Galaxy formation 2026-11-05
Galaxy formation is the assembly of the matter and stellar populations that make a galaxy. In a standard dark matter framework, dark matter halos provide gravitational potential wells in which gas can collect. Radiative cooling lets gas lose thermal support and contract, while star formation converts some dense gas into stars.
The process is regulated rather than a one-way collapse. Stellar explosions, radiation and accreting central black holes return energy and momentum to the gas; galactic winds can remove some of it. Mergers and angular momentum transport change the geometry. A formation model must therefore explain both how material assembles and why only part of the available gas becomes a long-lived stellar population.
Galaxy merger Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-11-05
A galaxy merger combines two or more galaxies into a remnant. Their orbital angular momentum and energy are redistributed into internal stellar and halo motions, escaping matter, and, when present, dissipative gas. A bound pair produced by tidal capture of galaxies need not coalesce immediately.
Galilean boost energy of an interacting gas 2026-10-24
For a resting uniform continuum gas with pair interactions depending on relative positions, shifting every particle momentum by leaves interaction energy unchanged and changes the microscopic kinetic energy by . The resting ground state has total momentum . The resulting boost energy uses the bare mass even in an interacting Fermi liquid; matching this with the Landau quasiparticle energy functional constrains its interaction kernel.
Gallium phosphide Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Gallium phosphide is a compound semiconductor of gallium and phosphorus, with chemical formula . Its electronic band structure determines which photon energies can excite mobile charge carriers and which transitions can produce light.
Its bulk band gap is indirect: a transition near the lowest gap involves a change of crystal momentum, so a phonon or another momentum-transfer mechanism matters. Consequently a band gap value alone does not predict an efficient light-emitting diode. Impurity states, radiative and nonradiative recombination, and extraction of emitted photons all affect the observable device output.
Gamma ray Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A gamma ray is a high-energy photon, conventionally associated with a transition of an atomic nucleus, radioactive decay or a particle reaction. X-rays and gamma rays are both electromagnetic radiation; their energy ranges overlap, so the production mechanism can be more informative than an arbitrary energy boundary.
A nuclear energy level transition emits a gamma ray whose energy is approximately the level difference, with a correction for nuclear recoil. Detectors infer the incoming energy from interactions such as photoelectric absorption, Compton scattering and, above threshold, pair production. A measured gamma-ray spectrum can therefore identify nuclear transitions even when a detector does not absorb the entire photon energy in each event.
Gamma-ray compactness problem 2026-10-20
Rapidly varying high-energy sources can appear too dense in target photons to transmit their observed gamma rays. For an approximately isotropic stationary region with target-band luminosity , radius and target photon energy , the target number density is . photon-photon pair production then gives optical depth . A luminosity variability size bound can make this very large. relativistic beaming both increases the inferred rest-frame size and reduces the inferred rest-frame radiation density, allowing escape. This radiation-opacity argument is distinct from gravitational stellar compactness and topological compactness.
Gamow peak Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-11-05
For a nonresonant charged-particle thermonuclear reaction rate, the thermal high-energy tail favors low while the Coulomb barrier penetration factor favors high . Their product peaks in an intermediate energy window. Resonant reactions such as the Triple-alpha process require an additional resonance treatment.
G. Angloher Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
An experimental particle physicist who coauthored CRESST experiment reports searching for dark matter. The 730 kg-day study used cryogenic crystals with two readout channels: phonons measured deposited energy, while particle scintillation helped classify the interacting particle. Candidate events were compared with explicit background models before being interpreted in a possible WIMP scenario.[ref]
Results from 730 kg days of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search by G. Angloher and others. Abstract: dual-channel detectors, recoil candidates and background analysis
Gas-discharge tube Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A gas-discharge tube conducts electric current through a gas made partially ionized by an applied electric field. Initial free electrons gain energy between collisions and can cause further ionization and excitation, producing a conducting discharge rather than ordinary conduction through a metal.
The behavior depends on gas composition, pressure, electrode spacing and the external circuit. Excited species can emit light, making a gas-discharge lamp; other designs use the discharge to switch current. A current-limiting external element often matters because discharge voltage need not increase with current like an ordinary resistor.
Gas dissipation in a galaxy merger Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Gas can shock and radiate during a galaxy encounter, allowing it to change orbital energy in ways unavailable to an ideal collisionless stellar component. Gravitational torques can transport its angular momentum and fuel central star formation or accretion. The outcome depends on orbit, gas content and internal structure.
Gauge-compensated time translation in electromagnetism Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
With signature and , combine a time translation with the gauge transformation of parameter . Its Noether current is , the gauge-invariant energy current. The density is . On the source-free field equations it differs from the canonical translation current by , an antisymmetric superpotential divergence, so total energies agree when the boundary term vanishes.
Gauge-coupling sign in Ginzburg-Landau superconductivity Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-18
For energy with kinetic term , , variation gives and current . Thus changing the sign of the covariant derivative changes the phase-gradient term of the current. The displayed energy, field equation and current must use the same convention.
Gauge-covariant time translation Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-11-05
For the Maxwell field, the variation is time translation combined with a gauge transformation. With constant , , and the Lagrangian changes by . Its Noether current is directly the time component of the gauge-invariant Maxwell stress-energy tensor, providing the physical energy density without a potential-dependent improvement step.
Gauge-invariant Maxwell stress-energy tensor Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-11-05
In signature , the Maxwell Lagrangian yieldsIt is symmetric after raising its second index, gauge-invariant, and conserved on the source-free Maxwell equations. Its energy density is and its energy flux is the Poynting vector. Its difference from the canonical stress-energy tensor is an antisymmetric superpotential divergence plus an equation-of-motion term, so integrated charges coincide when the constraints and vanishing boundary terms are imposed.
Gauge-theory soliton Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05