- Look up
fluctuation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Fluctuation may
refer to:
Statistical fluctuations, in statistics,
statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics...
- In
quantum physics, a
quantum fluctuation (also
known as a
vacuum state fluctuation or
vacuum fluctuation) is the
temporary random change in the amount...
- The
fluctuation–dissipation
theorem (FDT) or
fluctuation–dissipation
relation (FDR) is a
powerful tool in
statistical physics for
predicting the behavior...
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might spontaneously decrease; the
fluctuation theorem precisely quantifies this probability. Roughly, the
fluctuation theorem relates to the probability...
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transfers the same
amount to
Earth at
middle latitudes. Any
short term
fluctuation of the
rigidly rotating zonal wind-component is then
accompanied by a...
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drift and
resistance to
drift are
related by the
fluctuation-dissipation theorem.
Thermal fluctuations play a
major role in
phase transitions and chemical...
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tensor modes of
fluctuations.[clarification needed]
Scalar modes have the
power spectrum defined as the mean
squared density fluctuation for a specific...
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fluctuation, or by a
thermal fluctuation generally involving nucleation. By one calculation, a
Boltzmann brain would appear as a
quantum fluctuation in...
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stochastic processes,
chaos theory and time
series analysis,
detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is a
method for
determining the
statistical self-affinity...
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Fluctuation loss is an
effect seen in
radar systems as the
target object moves or
changes its
orientation relative to the
radar system. It was extensively...
