Index of physics articles (D)

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Index of physics articles

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• 0–9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

D

• D band (NATO)
• D band (waveguide)
• D'Alembert's paradox
• D'Alembert's principle
• D'Alembert force
• D'Alembert–Euler condition
• D-brane
• D-term
• D. Van Holliday
• D0 experiment
• DAFNE
• DAMA/LIBRA
• DAMA/NaI
• DBrn
• DCOMP
• DEAP
• DEEP2 Redshift Survey
• DELPHI experiment
• DESY
• DGLAP
• DGP model
• DIDO (nuclear reactor)
• DIII-D (tokamak)
• DNA condensation
• DNG metamaterial
• DONUT
• DUMAND Project
• D meson
• Daan Frenkel
• Dai Chuanzeng
• Dale A. Anderson
• Dalitz plot
• Dallas Abbott
• Dalton's law
• Daly detector
• Damping ratio
• Damping matrix
• Damping torque
• Dan Danknick
• Dan Jacobo Beninson
• Dan McKenzie (geophysicist)
• Dan Shechtman
• Danah Zohar
• Dangerously irrelevant operator
• Dangling bond
• Daniel Bernoulli
• Daniel C. Tsui
• Daniel Chonghan Hong
• Daniel D. Joseph
• Daniel Frank Walls
• Daniel Friedan
• Daniel Frost Comstock
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
• Daniel Gillespie
• Daniel Gottesman
• Daniel Gralath
• Daniel Isaachsen (physicist)
• Daniel Joseph Bradley
• Daniel Kastler
• Daniel Kleppner
• Daniel L. Stein
• Daniel Lidar
• Daniel Loss
• Daniel Webster Hering
• Daniel Z. Freedman
• Daniel Zajfman
• Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
• Daraf
• Darcy's law
• Darcy friction factor formulae
• Darcy–Weisbach equation
• Daresbury Laboratory
• Dark-energy-dominated era
• Dark-energy star
• DarkSide (dark matter experiment)
• Dark current (physics)
• Dark energy
• Dark flow
• Dark fluid
• Dark galaxy
• Dark matter
• Dark optical trap
• Dark radiation
• Dark star (Newtonian mechanics)
• Dark star (dark matter)
• Dark state
• Dart leader
• Darwin–Radau equation
• Darwin drift
• Dasar
• Data acquisition
• Data analysis
• Daulat Singh Kothari
• Dave Green (astrophysicist)
• Dave Thomas (physicist)
• Davey–Stewartson equation
• David A. Frank-Kamenetskii
• David A. Weitz
• David Adler (physicist)
• David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
• David Allan Bromley
• David Alter
• David Avison
• David Awschalom
• David B. Kaplan
• David B. Malament
• David Bates (physicist)
• David Berenstein
• David Blair (physicist)
• David Bohm
• David Brewster
• David Callaway
• David Carroll (physicist)
• David Ceperley
• David Chandler (chemist)
• David Chapman (scientist)
• David Cockayne
• David Cohen (physicist)
• David Crighton
• David Delano Clark
• David Deming
• David Deutsch
• David Douglass
• David Dunlap Observatory
• David E. Aspnes
• David E. Goldman
• David E. Kaplan (physicist)
• David E. Pritchard
• David Enskog
• David Evans (mathematician)
• David Faiman
• David Field (astrophysicist)
• David Finkelstein
• David Flower
• David Goodstein
• David Griffiths (physicist)
• David Gross
• David H. Frisch
• David H. Lyth
• David H. Munro
• David Halliday (physicist)
• David C. Hanna
• David Hestenes
• David Hilbert
• David J. Brenner
• David J. C. MacKay
• David J. Lockwood
• David J. Smith (physicist)
• David J. Thouless
• David Jaffray
• David John Candlin
• David K. Ferry
• David Kaiser (physicist)
• David Keynes Hill
• David Klyshko
• David L. Fried
• David L. Webster
• David Lee (physicist)
• David Lindley (physicist)
• David M. Dennison
• David McNiven Garner
• David Medved
• David Mermin
• David Mervyn Blow
• David N. Payne
• David Norman (ornithologist)
• David Olive
• David P. Landau
• David Parry (biophysicist)
• David Pegg (physicist)
• David Pines
• David R. Nygren
• David Reitze
• David Robert Nelson
• David Ruelle
• David S. Cafiso
• David Saltzberg
• David Schramm (astrophysicist)
• David Shoenberg
• David Spergel
• David States
• David Strangway
• David Tabor
• David Todd Wilkinson
• David Vanderbilt
• David W. Turner
• David Wallace (physicist)
• David Wands
• David Willey (physicist)
• David William Dye
• Davidson correction
• Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
• Davisson–Germer experiment
• Davydov soliton
• Dawes' limit
• Dawn chorus (electromagnetic)
• Day length
• Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
• Daylight
• Daylight factor
• Dayton Miller
• Dbx (noise reduction)
• DeWitt Bristol Brace
• DeWitt notation
• De Broglie–Bohm theory
• De Bruijn graph
• De Haas–van Alphen effect
• De Laval nozzle
• De Magnete
• De Sitter double star experiment
• De Sitter invariant special relativity
• De Sitter precession
• De Sitter space
• De Sitter universe
• De Sitter–Schwarzschild metric
• De motu corporum in gyrum
• De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
• Dead time
• Dean number
• Deane B. Judd
• Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
• Debendra Mohan Bose
• Deborah S. Jin
• Deborah number
• Debra Searles
• Debye frequency
• Debye model
• Debye relaxation
• Debye sheath
• Debye–Falkenhagen effect
• Debye–Waller factor
• Decay chain
• Decay energy
• Decay heat
• Decay product
• Deceleration parameter
• Decibel
• Decollimation
• Deconfinement
• Decorrelation
• Decoy state
• Deep-dose equivalent
• Deep-level transient spectroscopy
• Deep-level trap
• Deep Impact (spacecraft)
• Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory
• Deep inelastic scattering
• Defining equation (physical chemistry)
• Deflected slipstream
• Deflection (physics)
• Defocus aberration
• Deformable body
• Deformation (engineering)
• Deformation (mechanics)
• Degasification
• Degasperis–Procesi equation
• Degaussing
• Degenerate energy levels
• Degenerate matter
• Degenerate orbital
• Degree of coherence
• Degree of ionization
• Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)
• Dehydron
• Dejan Milošević
• Delaunay tessellation field estimator
• Delayed choice quantum eraser
• Delayed nuclear radiation
• Delocalized electron
• Delta-v
• Delta-v (physics)
• Delta-v budget
• Delta baryon
• Delta potential
• Delta ray
• Delta wing
• Demagnetizing field
• Dember effect
• Demetrios Christodoulou
• Demetrius Hondros
• Democratic principle
• Denaturation (fissile materials)
• Dendrite (metal)
• Deng Jiaxian
• Denge
• Denis Evans
• Denis Papin
• Denis Rousseau
• Denis Weaire
• Dennis Dieks
• Dennis Gabor
• Dennis William Sciama
• Dense plasma focus
• Densitometry
• Density
• Density functional theory
• Density matrix
• Density matrix renormalization group
• Density of air
• Density of states
• Density wave theory
• Denys Wilkinson
• Denys Wilkinson Building
• Department of Applied Science, UC Davis
• Department of Atomic Energy (India)
• Departure function
• Dephasing
• Depolarization ratio
• Deposition (aerosol physics)
• Deposition (phase transition)
• Depression storage capacity
• Depth of field
• Depth–slope product
• Derecho
• Derek Abbott
• Derek Barton
• Derivation of the Navier–Stokes equations
• Deriving the Schwarzschild solution
• Desert (particle physics)
• Desmond King-Hele
• Desorption
• Detached eddy simulation
• Detailed balance
• Detection of internally reflected Cherenkov light
• Determinism
• Deterministic system
• Detlef Quadfasel
• Detlev Buchholz
• Deuterium
• Deuterium-depleted water
• Deuterium burning
• Deutsche Physik
• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
• Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm
• Dew
• Dew point
• Dew point depression
• Dewbow
• Dewetting
• Dexter electron transfer
• Dextrorotation and levorotation
• Di-positronium
• Diabatic representation
• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
• Dialysis tubing
• Dialyt lens
• Dialyte lens
• Diamagnetism
• Diamond Light Source
• Diamond anvil cell
• Diamond cubic
• Diamond dust
• Diamond knife
• Diaphragm (acoustics)
• Diaphragm (mechanical device)
• Diatomic carbon
• Dibaryon
• Dichroic filter
• Dichroism
• Dichromatism
• Dick Teresi
• Diederik Korteweg
• Dielectric
• Dielectric barrier discharge
• Dielectric breakdown model
• Dielectric complex reluctance
• Dielectric dispersion
• Dielectric heating
• Dielectric mirror
• Dielectric relaxation
• Dielectric reluctance
• Dielectric spectroscopy
• Dielectric strength
• Dielectric wall accelerator
• Dielectrophoresis
• Diesel cycle
• Dieter Langbein
• Dieter Lüst
• Dieter Matthaei
• Dieter Weichert
• Dietrich Küchemann
• Diffeomorphism constraint
• Difference density map
• Differential entropy
• Differential rotation
• Differential scanning calorimetry
• Differential stress
• Diffraction
• Diffraction-limited system
• Diffraction grating
• Diffraction standard
• Diffraction tomography
• Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment
• Diffuse element method
• Diffuse reflection
• Diffuse sky radiation
• Diffuser (optics)
• Diffusing-wave spectroscopy
• Diffusion
• Diffusion (acoustics)
• Diffusion current
• Diffusion damping
• Diffusion equation
• Diffuson
• Digital holographic microscopy
• Digital magnetofluidics
• Digital physics
• Digital room correction
• Dihedral (aircraft)
• Dilatant
• Dilaton
• Dilution of precision (GPS)
• Dimensional analysis
• Dimensional deconstruction
• Dimensional reduction
• Dimensional regularization
• Dimensional transmutation
• Dimensionless Hubble parameter
• Dimensionless physical constant
• Dimensionless quantity
• Dimitri Nanopoulos
• Dimitri Riabouchinsky
• Dineutron
• Diocotron instability
• Diode
• Diode-pumped solid-state laser
• Dioptric correction
• Dioptrics
• Dip circle
• Dipan Ghosh
• Dipankar Home
• Dipleidoscope
• Dipolar
• Dipolar polarization
• Dipole
• Dipole (disambiguation)
• Dipole anisotropy
• Dipole magnet
• Dipole model of the Earth's magnetic field
• Dipole–dipole attraction
• Diproton
• Diquark
• Dirac Prize
• Dirac adjoint
• Dirac delta function
• Dirac equation
• Dirac equation in the algebra of physical space
• Dirac fermion
• Dirac large numbers hypothesis
• Dirac operator
• Dirac sea
• Dirac spinor
• Dirac string
• Direct-current discharge
• Direct and indirect band gaps
• Direct laser lithography
• Direct laser writing
• Direct numerical simulation
• Direct quantum chemistry
• Directed-energy weapon
• Directed percolation
• Directional-hemispherical reflectance
• Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks
• Directional sound
• Directional stability
• Directivity
• Dirichlet problem
• Dirk Bouwmeester
• Dirk Brockmann
• Dirk Coster
• Dirk Kreimer
• Dirk Polder
• Dirk Reuyl
• Dirk ter Haar
• Disc permeameter
• Discharge pressure
• Discotic liquid crystal
• Discoveries of extrasolar planets
• Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
• Discrete Lorentzian quantum gravity
• Discrete dipole approximation
• Discrete dipole approximation codes
• Discrete element method
• Discrete optimized protein energy
• Discrete spectrum (physics)
• Discrete symmetry
• Disgregation
• Disorder operator
• Dispersion-shifted fiber
• Dispersion (optics)
• Dispersion (physics)
• Dispersion (radiation)
• Dispersion (water waves)
• Dispersion relation
• Dispersive mass transfer
• Dispersive prism
• Displacement (fluid)
• Displacement (vector)
• Displacement current
• Displacement field (mechanics)
• Displacement operator
• Displacement thickness
• Displayed average noise level
• Disruptive discharge
• Dissipation
• Dissipation factor
• Dissipative particle dynamics
• Dissipative system
• Dissociative recombination
• Dissymmetry of lift
• Distance measures (cosmology)
• Distance modulus
• Distortion (optics)
• Distortion free energy density
• Distributed Bragg reflector
• Distributed acoustic sensing
• Distributed feedback laser
• Distribution function
• Divergence
• Divergence theorem
• Divertor
• Dmitri Ivanenko
• Dmitri Skobeltsyn
• Dmitri Z. Garbuzov
• Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov
• Dmitry Nalivkin
• Dmitry Shirkov
• Dmitry Zubarev
• Dmrg of Heisenberg model
• Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos
• Dogan Abukay
• Domain theory of ferromagnetism
• Domain wall (magnetism)
• Domain wall (optics)
• Domain wall (string theory)
• Domenico Pacini
• Dominique Lorentz
• Don Hendrix
• Don Kirkham
• Don L. Anderson
• Don Misener
• Donald A. Glaser
• Donald Braben
• Donald Cooksey
• Donald Ginsberg
• Donald H. Weingarten
• Donald Hill Perkins
• Donald J. Hughes
• Donald Keck
• Donald Lynden-Bell
• Donald MacCrimmon MacKay
• Donald Marolf
• Donald N. Langenberg
• Donald R. F. Harleman
• Donald R. Herriott
• Donald William Kerst
• Donor (semiconductors)
• Donor impurity
• Dopant
• Doping (semiconductor)
• Doppler broadening
• Doppler cooling
• Doppler cooling limit
• Doppler effect
• Doppler spectroscopy
• Dopplergraph
• Dorothy Nickerson
• Dorte Juul Jensen
• Dose fractionation
• Dosimeter
• Dosimetry
• Double-exchange mechanism
• Double-slit experiment
• Double Chooz
• Double beta decay
• Double diffusive convection
• Double electron capture
• Double inverted pendulum
• Double ionization
• Double negative metamaterial
• Double negative metamaterials
• Double pendulum
• Doublet (lens)
• Doublet state
• Doublet–triplet splitting problem
• Doubly ionized oxygen
• Doubly special relativity
• Doughnut theory of the universe
• Douglas Hartree
• Douglas Osheroff
• Douglas P. Verret
• Douglas Ross (physicist)
• Douglas Sea Scale
• Douglas Warrick
• Down quark
• Downburst
• Downforce
• Downhill folding
• Downton pump
• Downwash
• Drag-resistant aerospike
• Drag (fluid mechanics)
• Drag (physics)
• Drag Polar
• Drag coefficient
• Drag count
• Drag crisis
• Drag divergence Mach number
• Drag equation
• Dragon reactor
• Draupner wave
• Drell–Yan process
• Drift (plasma physics)
• Drift current
• Drift velocity
• Drinking bird
• Driven oscillations
• Drop (liquid)
• Drude model
• Drummond Matthews
• Dry-bulb temperature
• Dry ice
• Du Noüy ring method
• Du Qinghua
• Dual lattice
• Dual polarization interferometry
• Dual resonance model
• Dual superconductor model
• Dual tensor
• Duality (electricity and magnetism)
• Duane H. Cooper
• Duane–Hunt law
• Ducted propeller
• Ductility
• Dudley Williams (physicist)
• Duhamel's integral
• Duhem–Margules equation
• Dulong–Petit law
• Dumb hole
• Duncan Haldane
• Duncan J. Watts
• Duncan T. Moore
• Duoplasmatron
• Durmus A. Demir
• Duru–Kleinert transformation
• Dust (relativity)
• Dust devil
• Dust solution
• Dusty plasma
• Dutch roll
• Dwarf galaxy problem
• Dwarf planet
• Dyadics
• Dye-sensitized solar cell
• Dye laser
• Dynameter
• Dynamic aperture
• Dynamic aperture (accelerator physics)
• Dynamic equilibrium
• Dynamic light scattering
• Dynamic modulus
• Dynamic nuclear polarisation
• Dynamic pressure
• Dynamic scattering mode
• Dynamic speckle
• Dynamic stall
• Dynamic structure factor
• Dynamical billiards
• Dynamical friction
• Dynamical horizon
• Dynamical simulation
• Dynamical symmetry breaking
• Dynamical system
• Dynamical system (definition)
• Dynamical theory of diffraction
• Dynamical time scale
• Dynamics (mechanics)
• Dynamics of Markovian particles
• Dynamics of the celestial spheres
• Dynamitron
• Dynamo theory
• Dyon
• Dyson's eternal intelligence
• Dyson series
• Dyson sphere
• Dyson tree
• Dysprosium titanate
• Dénes Berényi
• Désiré van Monckhoven
• Détecteur à Grande Acceptance pour la Physique Photonucléaire Expérimentale (DAPHNE)
• Dühring's rule