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The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars. Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb. Edited by W. Thirring, and with a preface by F. Dyson. Fourth edition. Springer, Berlin, 2005. Elliott H. Lieb and Robert Seiringer, The Stability of Matter in Quantum Mechanics. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010. Elliott H. Lieb, The stability of matter: from atoms to stars ...
Such states of matter are studied in condensed matter physics. In extreme conditions found in some stars and in the early universe, atoms break into their constituents and matter exists as some form of degenerate matter or quark matter. Such states of matter are studied in high-energy physics.
Lieb has been awarded several prizes in mathematics and physics, including the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics (1978), [9] the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society (1992), [10] the Boltzmann medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (1998), [11] the Schock Prize (2001), [12] the Henri ...
However, stability of large systems with many electrons and many nucleons is a different question, and requires the Pauli exclusion principle. [15] It has been shown that the Pauli exclusion principle is responsible for the fact that ordinary bulk matter is stable and occupies volume.
An even number of protons or neutrons is more stable (higher binding energy) because of pairing effects, so even–even nuclides are much more stable than odd–odd. One effect is that there are few stable odd–odd nuclides: in fact only five are stable, with another four having half-lives longer than a billion years.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1.1 It is the foundation of all quantum physics, ... For example, the stability of bulk matter ...
The existence of a topological defect can be demonstrated whenever the boundary conditions entail the existence of homotopically distinct solutions. Typically, this occurs because the boundary on which the conditions are specified has a non-trivial homotopy group which is preserved in differential equations; the solutions to the differential equations are then topologically distinct, and are ...
Solid-state physics is the study of rigid matter, or solids, through methods such as solid-state chemistry, quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy. It is the largest branch of condensed matter physics. Solid-state physics studies how the large-scale properties of solid materials result from their atomic-scale ...