Index of physics articles (D)

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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
 * Dysprosium titanate
 * Dénes Berényi
 * Désiré van Monckhoven
 * Détecteur à Grande Acceptance pour la Physique Photonucléaire Expérimentale (DAPHNE)
 * Dühring's rule