Degenerate matter occurs when the Pauli exclusion principle significantly alters a state of matter at low temperature. The term is used in astrophysics...
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condensates and Fermionic condensates (in extreme cold), neutron-degenerate matter (in extreme density), and quark–gluon plasma (at extremely high energy)...
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dwarf matter—typically, carbon and oxygen nuclei in a sea of degenerate electrons. At a microscopic level, the constituent "particles" of matter such as...
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result in dramatic changes in its physical or chemical properties. Degenerate matter Exotic atoms Negative mass would possess some strange properties,...
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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...
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Compact object (redirect from Degenerate star)
called white or degenerate dwarfs are made up mainly of degenerate matter; typically carbon and oxygen nuclei in a sea of degenerate electrons. White...
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White dwarf (redirect from Degenerate dwarf)
white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: in an Earth-sized volume, it packs a...
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Helium flash (category Exotic matter)
However, a property of degenerate matter is that increases in temperature do not produce an increase in the pressure of the matter until the thermal pressure...
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Neutronium (category Exotic matter)
collapse into a denser phase of matter). In scientific literature the term "neutron-degenerate matter" or simply neutron matter is used for this material....
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Degeneracy (redirect from Degenerate)
degeneracy, degenerate, or degenerative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Degeneracy, degenerate, or degeneration may refer to: Degenerate (album), a...
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temperature to fuse. What is left is then a dense sphere of electron-degenerate matter that cools slowly by thermal radiation, eventually becoming a black...
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which forms matter consisting mostly of quarks SU(2) color superconductivity – Property of quark matter Strange matter – Degenerate matter made from strange...
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chromodynamics, that it will become quark matter, which is a degenerate Fermi gas of quarks. Some authors use "nuclear matter" in a broader sense, and refer to...
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Strange matter (or strange quark matter) is quark matter containing strange quarks. In extreme environments, strange matter is hypothesized to occur in...
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Accordingly, fuzzballs are theorized to be the terminal phase of degenerate matter. Mathur calculated that the physical surfaces of fuzzballs have radii...
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any proposed equation of state of degenerate matter is highly speculative. Other forms of hypothetical degenerate matter may be possible, and the resulting...
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neutron star the matter is in a state known as neutron-degenerate matter, with a more exotic form of degenerate matter, QCD matter, possibly present...
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Strange matter – Degenerate matter made from strange quarks QCD matter – Hypothetical phases of matter Zyga, Lisa (2010-04-27). "Signs of dark matter may...
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gravitational compression. Such a scenario may arise in stars containing degenerate matter, in which electron degeneracy pressure rather than normal thermal...
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variation of mass with the velocities of electrons that comprise their degenerate matter. He showed that the mass of a white dwarf could not exceed 1.44 times...
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giant atomic nucleus), with a thin overlying layer of degenerate matter (chiefly iron unless matter of different composition is added later). The neutrons...
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Black hole (section Accretion of matter)
calculated, using special relativity, that a non-rotating body of electron-degenerate matter above a certain limiting mass (now called the Chandrasekhar limit...
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hypothetical, more exotic forms of degenerate matter are even more poorly known than those of neutron-degenerate matter, most astrophysicists assume, in...
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Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of...
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Quark star (category Exotic matter)
equation of state of quark matter is uncertain, as is the transition point between neutron-degenerate matter and quark matter. Theoretical uncertainties...
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Neutron star (category Exotic matter)
exotic forms of matter are possible, including degenerate strange matter (containing strange quarks in addition to up and down quarks), matter containing high-energy...
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Pauli exclusion principle (section Stability of matter)
pressure, also known as Fermi pressure. This exotic form of matter is known as degenerate matter. The immense gravitational force of a star's mass is normally...
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understanding of neutron degenerate matter; the current median mass, if confirmed, would exclude any "soft" equation of state for such matter. The cluster has...
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masses above 500 M🜨, gravity will cause the planet to shrink (see degenerate matter). Kelvin–Helmholtz heating can cause a gas giant to radiate more energy...
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2021 at 38 picokelvin through matter-wave lensing of rubidium Bose–Einstein condensates. Physics portal Degenerate matter Kelvin (unit of temperature)...
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