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fermi energynoun(physics) The highest energy of a particle that is part of a many-particle system of identical fermions in its ground state.
fermi gasnoun(physics) A gas composed of a large number of fermions.
ferminounAn obsolete name of the unit of length equal to one femtometre (10⁻¹⁵ m).
fermi surfacenoun(physics) An abstract boundary, of constant energy, useful for predicting the thermal, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of metals, semimetals, and doped semiconductors.
fermi levelnounThe total chemical potential for electrons.
fermiologynoun(physics) The study of the configuration (shape and size) of Fermi surfaces.
parafermionnoun(physics) The equivalent of a fermion in any of several parastatistics
fermionnoun(particle physics, Standard Model) Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark;
fermionizationnoun(physics) The theoretical treatment of a system as one of fermions.
cofermionnoun(physics) A composite fermion
ising modelnounA particular mathematical model of ferromagnetism in statistical mechanics.
difermionnoun(physics, often attributive) Any combination of two fermions.
ferriphasenoun(physics) A ferrielectric phase
bethe formulanoun(physics) A formula describing the mean energy loss per distance travelled of swift charged particles traversing matter (or alternatively the stopping power of the material).
sommerfeld's constantnoun(physics) The fine-structure constant.
photoferroelectricsnoun(physics) The study, design and manufacture of photoferroelectric devices
stat mechnoun(informal) statistical mechanics
franckensteinnoun(nuclear physics, colloquial, dated) One of the large, automated measurement machines used in the original bevatron.
superfermionnoun(physics) A condensation of multiple fermions.
sfermionnoun(physics) A sparticle of the class of spin-0 superpartners of ordinary fermions appearing in supersymmetric extensions to the Standard Model.

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