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(wĭg′nər), Eugene Paul 1902-1995.

Hungarian-born American physicist and pioneer of nuclear engineering. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for his work on symmetry principles in quantum mechanics.

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Wigner

(ˈwɪɡnə)

(Biography) Eugene Paul. 1902–95, US physicist, born in Hungary. He is noted for his contributions to nuclear physics: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1963

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Wig•ner

(ˈwɪg nər)

n.

Eugene Paul, 1902–95, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary: Nobel prize 1963.

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Wigner - United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on the structure of the atom and its nucleus (1902-1995)

Eugene Paul Wigner, Eugene Wigner

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where the upper and the lower equations are the Wigner and Poission ones, respectively, while f is the distribution function, t is time, V is electron velocity, [phi] is the self-consistent electrostatic potential, h = h/(2[pi]) is the Dirac constant, and [[epsilon].sub.0] = 8.85 x [10.sup.-12] F/m is the permittivity of free space.

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From Quantum Unstable Systems to the Decaying Dark Energy: Cosmological Implications

The most well-studied ensembles of random matrices are, without a doubt, Wigner ensembles [15]: these are random matrices X [member of] [M.sup.sa.sub.d](C) having independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) entries, up to the symmetry condition [X.sub.ij] = [bar.X].sub.ij]; see [16, Section 2].

On the Separability of Unitarily Invariant Random Quantum States: The Unbalanced Regime

This type of viewpoint can be extended still further with the development of mixed space/time transforms or mixed space/ spatial frequency transforms such as the fractional Fourier transform [10], the Linear Canonical Transform (LCT), and perhaps even more generally the form of Wigner distribution functions [11-17].

Measuring the Phase of an Optical Field from Two Intensity Measurements: Analysis of a Simple Theoretical Model

We first introduce bilinear localization operators, bilinear Weyl [PSI]DOs, and bilinear Wigner transform and show how they are connected; see Section 2.

Bilinear Localization Operators on Modulation Spaces

But Peter and I had had a conversation about 5 or 6 years ago addressing exactly this topic of the soft electronic mode, though in a different context, the Wigner crystal instability.

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The makers also showed discipline-specific skill development related to electrical and computer engineering (57 percent), mechanical engineering (28 percent), and manufacturing engineering (49 percent) (Wigner, Lande, and Jordan 2016).