Use this tag for questions seeking a single specific paper or a short, non-open-ended list of references, like "What paper first discovered X?", "Where can I find the original derivation of X?", or "What is the canonical source for X?" etc.
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Is there an “authoritative” source for ephemeris data?
I find some variation in the values reported for ephemeris by the various sources I have access to. For example for 2012-11-27T03:31:55 UTC I get solar declination values of -21.1828°, -21.18296°, ...
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What are good books for graduates/undergraduates in Astrophysics?
There are no book recommendations for Astrophysics here. I will write my own answer, but I am also interested in what are others' views on the question (I will NOT mark my own answer as the best one).
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Small Oscillations and matrices: suggestion about text
I'm undergraduate and I'm looking for a text about Small Oscillations in which matrices are used. Could you suggest me a book or a PDF file?
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What papers detail the early research on heavy fermion superconductors?
Can someone point me to the papers detailing when/where/how heavy fermion superconductors were first synthesized, tested and documented?
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Positivity of Total Gravitational Energy in GR
I read the following statement in the introduction to an article:
Over the last 30 years, one of the greatest achievements in classical
general relativity has certainly been the proof of the ...
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Where did Karl Schwarzschild derived his solution?
Does anyone know more about circumstances of Karl Schwarzschild at the Russian front in 1915 where he allegedly derived his famous solution of the Einstein equations (describing a black hole)? Sources ...
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Recommendations for a physics-related book for a child? [closed]
So it's that time of year again, where one must buy gifts for all children in sight.
I want to buy a book, related to physics, ideally, for my girlfriend's sister. What books are educational and ...
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Theoretical physics quiz book [closed]
I`m an android developer who recently published a quiz game called " The Big Bang Freak " ! The quiz contains a section dedicated to the famous sitcom "The Big Bang Theory ", but it ...
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Rigged Hilbert space and QM
Are there any comprehensive texts that discuss QM using the notion of rigged Hilbert spaces? It would be nice if there were a text that went through the standard QM examples using this structure.
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Dirac equation as Hamiltonian system
Let us consider Dirac equation
$$(i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu -m)\psi =0$$
as a classical field equation. Is it possible to introduce Poisson bracket on the space of spinors $\psi$ in such a way that ...
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Reference for the predictability of rigid body dynamics
I'm looking for a reference, journal article, paper, etc. that supports the idea that classical mechanics, in particular rigid body dynamics, is largely predictable.
A view coming from the background ...
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Ultracold atoms and General theory of Relativty
I am looking for good reviews for the subject of Ultracold atoms and it's application in test of General theory of relativity. I am planning to pick up this topic as a semester project, can somebody ...
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Reference-request: Computational science and physics [closed]
I'm interested in the following question:
Is Nature computable at it's most fundamental level?
Can anyone suggest any works (books, papers / articles, reviews) related to the above question?
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Quantum phyics project for a high schooler [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Study Quantum Physics
I am a high schooler who is interested in physics and mathematics, and I have a kind of 'high-school thesis' coming up in a year and a half or so. ...
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Can someone identify this Landau reference?
I'm having some trouble identifying a reference Landau and Lifshitz make in volume 3 - non-relativistic quantum mechanics - of their Course of theoretical physics. This is the page from the Oxford, ...
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Reference for understanding characteristic length and time scales in a system (in particular electronic transport)
I am working on the transport properties of two dimensional electron gas in semiconductor heterostructures and am interested in the characteristic length and time scales of the system like elastic ...
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Can Ohm's law break in metals?
I was rereading Purcell's Electricity and Magnetism as research for another question, and I found this passage:
In metals Ohm's law is obeyed exceedingly accurately up to current densities far ...
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Entanglement Entropy
I needed some references which involves, the basic definition and motivation for Entanglement Entropy, and its one or two applications to many-body physics/black holes.
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Motions in Non-inertial reference frames? Reference -request
The course 0.2061 in Aalto University covers motion in non-inertial-reference frame but without examples and without references (examples are outlined only in lectures but I find them very hard to ...
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Are Born-Oppenheimer energies analytic functions of nuclear positions?
I am looking for references to bibliography that explores the smoothness and analyticity of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions (and matrix elements in general) of a hamiltonian that depends on some ...
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Is omniscience impossible?
I remember reading a brief note in Scientific American years ago about a mathematician/physicist who had published a paper that formally stated that no entity could both participate in a given system ...
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Experimental realization of Quantum Teleportation of Spin, not polarization, not ions or atoms
I've looked everywhere in databases my school provides, to google searches, to the questions asked in physics forums, and here. As I understand, the original QT (quantum teleportation) protocol ...
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How can I find a very old paper by W.L. Bragg from 1913?
I'm often looking for old physics papers that had a big impact on science (Nobel prize, for example). But I can't seem to find a lot of them. Is there a reason why some papers are not digitally ...
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Is there a published upper limit on the electron's electric quadrupole moment?
I understand an electric quadrupole moment is forbidden in the standard electron theory. In this paper considering general relativistic corrections (Kerr-Newman metric around the electron), however, ...
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Dimensional reduction and Schwarzschild solution
It is well-known that, given a Killing vector $\xi_\mu$ for a metric, this can be dimensionally reduced. This is exactly the case of the Schwarzschild solution due to the rotational symmetry. This ...
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Study Quantum Physics
I'm an aspiring physicist who wants to self study some Quantum Physics. My thirst for knowledge is unquenchable and I can not wait 2 more years until I get my first quantum physics class in ...
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Good introductory books on AdS/CFT correspondence [duplicate]
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Introduction to AdS/CFT
Since my question in a similar topic was deleted, I'll ask away and hope ppl won't come here telling me: this was already asked! :\
I have a ...
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Viscoelastic materials parameters values
I am taking part of a theoretical research about viscoelastic material, in particular related to the Kelvin-Voigt model.
For some numerical simulation we need the values of the Lamé elastic and ...
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Quantum Mechanics in terms of *-algebras
I'm currently trying to find my way into the geometric description of Quantum Mechanics. I therefor started reading:
Geometry of state spaces. In: Entanglement and Decoherence (A. Buchleitner et ...
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Mathematics for Quantum Mechanics [duplicate]
What math should I study if I want to get a basic understanding of quantum mechanics and especially to be able to use the Schrodinger's equation.
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Microphones, Loudspeaker and their analogies to spring mass system
I have just started studying Microphones and Loudspeakers. I need a good text to refer which can explain their mechanical analogies with simplicity and basics too.
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Lagrangian to Hamiltonian in Quantum Field Theory
While deriving Hamiltonian from Lagrangian density, we use the formula
$$\mathcal{H} ~=~ \pi \dot{\phi} - \mathcal{L}.$$
But since we are considering space and time as parameters, why the formula
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Linear rising potential from a Gribov propagator
It is common wisdom that a gluon propagator (Gribov-)like
$$
G(p^2)=\frac{a+bp^2}{cp^4+dp^2+e}
$$
should give rise to a linear rising potential. So far, I have not seen a proof of this and I would ...
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What was the first discovery of the delta baryon $\Delta^{++}$?
The delta baryons (also called delta resonances) are a family of subatomic hadron particles which have the symbols $\Delta^{++}$, $\Delta^{+}$, $\Delta^{0}$, and $\Delta^{−}$ and electric charges +2, ...
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Linearizing Gravity to ${\cal O}(h^3)$
I've seen the action of linearized gravity in many places. We basically have
$${\cal L} \sim \frac{1}{G_N}\left( - \frac{1}{2}h^{\alpha\beta} \Box h_{\alpha\beta} + \frac{1}{4} h \Box h + {\cal ...
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false vacuum original paper
I'm trying to track down the origin of the False Vacuum paradigm. Is it Coleman and de Luccia's "Gravitational Effects on and of Vacuum Decay"
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Improved energy-momentum tensor
While still dealing with this issue, I've stumbled upon this answer to a question asking about the conserved quantity corresponding to a scaling transformation. It mentions that in accordance with ...
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How does Doppler effect differ between EM -waves in Electrodynamics and Sound -waves?
I have an electrodynamics -course that contains doupler -effect but unfortunately with little explanations. Is it the same thing as the classical doppler effect for example with sound, more here, or ...
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Reference for stellar figures
Could anybody suggest a reference for the present stellar models? In particular, I would appreciate references containing the core temperatures and pressures of neutron stars...
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Official definition of astronomical units
As it is relatively easy to find an official value for a large number of physical constants, (thanks to CODATA), it is not so easy for some units widely used in astronomy (Wikipedia, Google and IAU ...
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Energies decay in 3D homogeneous rotating turbulence
In three-dimensional rotating homogeneous turbulence governed by the hyper-viscous Navier-Stokes equation with an additional Coriolis force in a three-periodic setup:
\begin{equation}
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How to learn celestial mechanics?
I'm a PhD student in math and am really excited about celestial mechanics.
I was wondering if anyone could give me a roadmap for learning this subject. The amount of information about it on the ...
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When do the von Neumann projections occur and what causes them?
(Transferred as a separate question from comments in Scott Aaronson’s gravitational decoherence question)
Reversing gravitational decoherence
The modern answer seems to be that they never occur, ...
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Direction of planetary tilt
I am building a 3d solar system simulation using WebGL and have come across the problem of establishing the direction of tilt of the various planets. No I know the tilt of the planets in degrees what ...
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Is it possible to use the properties of quantum mechnics to develop a computer that develop mathmatical theory? [closed]
Is it possible to use the properties of quantum mechnics to develop a computer that develop mathmatical theory?
I want some reference please, because i want to get into very detailed.
Thanks in ...
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Charge Based Capacitance Measurement (CBCM)
I am using Keithley 4200-SCS to measure the device capacitance.In order to get total capacitance of the device, the Gate terminal is voltage biased and the other three terminals are grounded.
I wanted ...
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References for nuclear masses, mass deficits, decay rates and modes
Where can I find the base data for computing the energy release of nuclear decays and the spectra of the decay products?
My immediate need is to find the energy release by the beta decay of Thorium ...
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Books on the general notions of measurements, observables, states, etc.? [closed]
I am reading the intro chapter in Huzihiro Araki's Mathematical Theory of Quantum Fields, which discusses the general notions of states, measurements, and observables (e.g. the topology on the sets of ...
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Equations of fluid dynamics and differential geometry
Where can I look for equations of fluid motion written in terms of nifty things from differential geometry like exterior derivative, Hodge dual, musical isomorphism?
Preferably both with and without ...
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condensed matter physics must reads [closed]
Possible duplicate:
Books for Condensed Matter Physics
I'm looking to learn more about cutting edge research in condensed matter theory.
I hope you'll help me find some recommended articles in ...
