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  2. Eleven-dimensional supergravity - Wikipedia

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    Supergravity was discovered in 1976 through the construction of pure four-dimensional supergravity with one gravitino. One important direction in the supergravity program was to try to construct four-dimensional = supergravity since this was an attractive candidate for a theory of everything, stemming from the fact that it unifies particles of all physically admissible spins into a single ...

  3. Higher-dimensional supergravity - Wikipedia

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    The field however does not arise from the dimensional reduction, massive IIA is not known to be the dimensional reduction of any higher-dimensional theory. The 1-form Ramond–Ramond potential C 1 {\displaystyle C_{1}\,} is the usual 1-form connection that arises from the Kaluza–Klein procedure, it arises from the components of the 11-d ...

  4. Supermembranes - Wikipedia

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    Supermembranes are hypothesized objects that live in the 11-dimensional theory called M-Theory and should also exist in eleven-dimensional supergravity. Supermembranes are a generalisation of superstrings to another dimension. Supermembranes are 2-dimensional surfaces. For example, they can be spherical or shaped like a torus.

  5. Supergravity - Wikipedia

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    Due to string dualities, the conjectured 11-dimensional M-theory is required to have 11-dimensional supergravity as a "low energy limit". However, this doesn't necessarily mean that string theory/M-theory is the only possible UV completion of supergravity; [ citation needed ] supergravity research is useful independent of those relations.

  6. Quantum dot - Wikipedia

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    Nanoscale semiconductor materials tightly confine either electrons or electron holes. The confinement is similar to a three-dimensional particle in a box model. The quantum dot absorption and emission features correspond to transitions between discrete quantum mechanically allowed energy levels in the box that are reminiscent of atomic spectra.

  7. Superlattice - Wikipedia

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    Semiconductor materials, which are used to fabricate the superlattice structures, may be divided by the element groups, IV, III-V and II-VI. While group III-V semiconductors (especially GaAs/Al x Ga 1−x As) have been extensively studied, group IV heterostructures such as the Si x Ge 1−x system are much more difficult to realize because of ...

  8. Quantum well - Wikipedia

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    The first two energy states in an infinite well quantum well model. The walls in this model are assumed to be infinitely high. The solution wave functions are sinusoidal and go to zero at the boundary of the well. The solution wave functions cannot exist in the barrier region of the well, due to the infinitely high potential. Therefore, by ...

  9. Quantum wire - Wikipedia

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    In mesoscopic physics, a quantum wire is an electrically conducting wire in which quantum effects influence the transport properties. Usually such effects appear in the dimension of nanometers, so they are also referred to as nanowires.