Scientific Glossary
- Magnetic pumping: Successive compression and expansion of plasma via a fluctuating magnetic field.
- Many-body physics: Field of physics that attempts to navigate the gulf of complexity separating the quantum behaviors of atoms, molecules, and subatomic particles and the macroscopic world governed by classical mechanics.
- Mass spectrometry: Analytical technique for measuring the mass-to-charge ratio of ions that can be used to identify unknown compounds, determine the isotopic composition of elements in a compound, and quantify the amount of a compound in a sample.
- Metrology: The science of precision measurement.
- Microfluidics technology: Systems that use fluids at volumes thousands of times smaller than a common droplet.
- Mode-locked laser: A laser that emits a series of short pulses evenly spaced in time.