Quantum Mechanics
Object that is time-dependent in the Schrodinger picture.
What is the state?
The name for the boundary of a black hole.
What is the event horizon?
Differential operator which can be thought of as the divergence of the gradient.
What is the Laplacian?
More than one of these particles cannot occupy an identical quantum state
What are fermions?
Einstein's discovery that won him the the Nobel Prize in Physics.
What is the photoelectric effect?
Operator corresponding to the Legendre transform of the Lagrangian which is of great relevance in quantum mechanics.
What is the Hamiltonian?
This formula relates a black hole's entropy to a relevant surface area.
What is the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy?
Name of the integral equation which calculates the magnetic field of a current distribution.
What is the Biot-Savart law?
Particles in the standard model that carry color charge.
What are quarks and gluons?
Prefix of 'second' relevant to the 2023 Nobel prize in physics.
What is 'atto'?
The first known example of a hidden-variable theory of quantum mechanics.
What is pilot wave (de Broglie–Bohm) theory?
Physicists who the solution to the Einstein-Maxwell equations for a static, nonrotating black hole is named.
Who are Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström?
These polynomials appear when expanding the electrostatic potential in powers of 1/r in spherical coordinates.
What are the Legendre polynomials?
The two quantities that characterize a particle (related to the two Casimir operators of the Lorentz group).
Erwin Schrödinger won the 1933 Nobel prize in physics along with this man.
Who is Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac?
The approximation technique involving writing the Schrodinger wavefunction as the exponential of some other function.
What is the WKB approximation?
This signal-combining technique was used by the first telescope to obtain an image of a black hole.
What is Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)?
The integrals of sin(x2) and cos(x2) are named after him.
Who is Augustin-Jean Fresnel?
Due to confinement in QCD, quarks cannot exist in isolation. Instead, they form these color-neutral bound state particles.
What are hadrons?
François Englert shared the 2013 Nobel prize in physics with this famous physicist.
Who is Peter Higgs?
This theorem states that any symmetry transformation in quantum mechanics preserving transition probabilities corresponds to either a unitary or antiunitary operator on the Hilbert space.
What is Wigner's theorem?
An object in this region of a rotating black hole spacetime cannot appear stationary to a far away observer unless it's velocity relative to the local spacetime exceeds the speed of light.
What is the ergosphere?
This function describes (among other things) the dependence of the magnetization of an ideal paramagnet on the applied magnetic field.
What is the Brillouin function?
Most abundant method of Higgs boson production in particle colliders.
What is gluon-gluon fusion?
He is the youngest Nobel laureate in Physics.
Who is William Bragg?