# Index of physics articles (L)

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## Index of physics articles

* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## L

* L. Gary Leal
* L. M. Milne-Thomson
* L3 (CERN)
* LAGEOS
* LAMMPS
* LARES (satellite)
* LArIAT
* LCGT
* Left-handed material
* LEPS
* LEPS2
* LHC@home
* LHCb
* LHCf
* LHS 3508
* LIDAR
* LIESST
* LIGO
* LOCC
* LOPES (telescope)
* LRAD Corporation
* LSZ reduction formula
* LUCID
* LULI2000
* L band
* Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
* Laboratory for Laser Energetics
* Laboratory frame of reference
* Laboratory oven
* Laboratory techniques
* Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron
* Ladder operator
* Ladder paradox
* Ladislas Goldstein
* Lagrangian mechanics
* Lagrangian analysis
* Lagrangian and Eulerian specification of the flow field
* Lagrangian coherent structures
* Lagrangian mechanics
* Lagrangian (field theory)
* Lagrangian particle tracking
* Lagrangian point
* Lamb shift
* Lamb waves
* Lambda-CDM model
* Lambda baryon
* Lambda point
* Lambda point refrigerator
* Lambda transition
* Lambdavacuum solution
* Lambert's cosine law
* Lambert's problem
* Lambert (unit)
* Lambert radiator
* Lambertian reflectance
* Lamb–Mössbauer factor
* Lamb–Oseen vortex
* Lamellar vector field
* Laminar–turbulent transition
* Laminar flow
* Laminar sublayer
* Lamm equation
* Lamé parameters
* Lancelot Law Whyte
* Lanczos tensor
* Land speed
* Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
* Landau damping
* Landau pole
* Landau quantization
* Landau theory
* Landauer's principle
* Landauer formula
* Landau–Hopf theory of turbulence
* Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation
* Landau–Zener formula
* Landolt–Börnstein
* Landspout
* Landé g-factor
* Landé interval rule
* Lane–Emden equation
* Langevin dynamics
* Langevin equation
* Langevin function
* Langmuir circulation
* Langmuir probe
* Langmuir waves
* Langmuir–Blodgett film
* Langworthy Professor
* Laplace formula
* Laplace number
* Laplace pressure
* Laplace series
* Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
* Lapse rate
* Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics
* Large Area Neutron Detector
* Large Electron–Positron Collider
* Large Hadron Collider
* Large Helical Device
* Large Plasma Device
* Large Underground Xenon experiment
* Large Volume Detector
* Large diffeomorphism
* Large eddy simulation
* Large electrostatic generator (Teylers)
* Large extra dimension
* Large gauge transformation
* Larkin Kerwin
* Larmor formula
* Larmor precession
* Larry Smarr
* Lars Onsager
* Lars Onsager Prize
* Larson–Miller relation
* Laser
* Laser-heated pedestal growth
* Laser-induced fluorescence
* Laser-induced incandescence
* LaserMotive
* Laser Accelerometer
* Laser Doppler velocimetry
* Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
* Laser Interferometry Space Antenna
* Laser Mégajoule
* Laser Physics (journal)
* Laser Physics Letters
* Laser ablation
* Laser ablation synthesis in solution
* Laser accelerometer
* Laser acronyms
* Laser construction
* Laser cooling
* Laser diode
* Laser diode rate equations
* Laser engraving
* Laser integration line
* Laser propulsion
* Laser protection eyewear
* Laser pumping
* Laser rangefinder
* Laser safety
* Laser science
* Laser snow
* Laser ultrasonics
* Laser voltage prober
* Lasing threshold
* Laszlo B. Kish
* Latent heat
* Latent heat flux
* Latent internal energy
* Lateral flow test
* Lateral force variation
* Lattice Boltzmann methods
* Lattice QCD
* Lattice constant
* Lattice density functional theory
* Lattice diffusion coefficient
* Lattice field theory
* Lattice gas automaton
* Lattice gauge theory
* Lattice model (physics)
* Laughlin wavefunction
* Laura Bassi
* Laurence E. Peterson
* Laurent Freidel
* Lauro Moscardini
* Lavo Čermelj
* Law of conservation of matter
* Law of the wall
* Lawrence M. Krauss
* Lawrence Paul Horwitz
* Laws of science
* Laws of thermodynamics
* Lawson criterion
* Lax pair
* Lax–Friedrichs method
* Lax–Wendroff method
* Lazare Carnot
* Lazarus effect
* LeConte Hall
* LeRoy Apker
* LeRoy Apker Award (APS)
* LeRoy radius
* Le Sage's theory of gravitation
* Lead shielding
* Leader (spark)
* Leading-edge extension
* Leading edge
* Leading edge cuff
* Leading-edge slat
* Leading edge slot
* Leakage (electronics)
* Leakage (semiconductors)
* Leaky mode
* Leapfrog integration
* Least count
* Least distance of distinct vision
* Lebedev Physical Institute
* Lebesgue spine
* Lecture Notes in Physics
* Ledinegg instability
* Lee Alvin DuBridge
* Lee C. Teng
* Lee Davenport
* Lee Segel
* Lee Smolin
* Lee wave
* Left-handed material
* Left–right symmetry
* Leidenfrost effect
* Leigh Canham
* Leigh Page
* Leland I. Anderson
* Leland John Haworth
* Lemaître coordinates
* Lemaître–Tolman metric
* Lene Hau
* Length contraction
* Length scale
* Lennard-Jones potential
* Lenoir cycle
* Lens (optics)
* Lens sag
* Lenticular lens
* Lenz's law
* Leo Brewer
* Leo Esaki
* Leo Graetz
* Leo Kadanoff
* Leo Palatnik
* Leon Cooper
* Leon Knopoff
* Leon M. Lederman
* Leon Mestel
* Leona Woods
* Leonard Huxley (physicist)
* Leonard M. Rieser
* Leonard Mandel
* Leonard Mlodinow
* Leonard Ornstein
* Leonard Parker
* Leonard Reiffel
* Leonard Susskind
* Leonard T. Troland
* Leonardo Chiariglione
* Leonhard Euler
* Leonid Brekhovskikh
* Leonid I. Sedov
* Leonid Mandelstam
* Leonid Mikhailovich Shkadov
* Leonid Yatsenko
* Leonidas Resvanis
* Leopold B. Felsen
* Leopold Biwald
* Leopold Infeld
* Leopoldo Máximo Falicov
* Leopoldo Nobili
* Leptogenesis (physics)
* Lepton
* Lepton epoch
* Lepton mixing matrix
* Lepton number
* Leptoquark
* Leroy Dubeck
* Les Houches Accords
* Leslie H. Martin
* Leslie Martin (disambiguation)
* Leslie cube
* Leste
* Lester Germer
* Lester Hogan
* Let There Be Light (Howard Smith book)
* Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
* Lettere al Nuovo Cimento
* Leucippus
* Lev Artsimovich
* Lev Gor'kov
* Lev Landau
* Lev Lipatov
* Lev Okun
* Lev Pavlovich Rapoport
* Lev Shubnikov
* Lev Vaidman
* Level-spacing distribution
* Level of free convection
* Level-set method
* Lever
* Leverett J-function
* Levi-Civita symbol
* Levitated dipole
* Levitation
* Lew Kowarski
* Lewi Tonks
* Lewis Fry Richardson
* Lewis M. Branscomb
* Lewis Salter
* Lewis number
* Lewis pair
* Leyden jar
* Leó Szilárd
* Li Aizhen
* Lianxing Wen
* Lichtenberg figure
* Lie superalgebra
* Lieb–Liniger model
* Liesegang rings
* Lift-induced drag
* Lift-to-drag ratio
* Lift (force)
* Lift coefficient
* Lifted condensation level
* Lifting-line theory
* Ligand K-edge
* Light
* Light-dragging effects
* Light-induced voltage alteration
* Light-year
* Light dark matter
* Light air
* Light beam
* Light cone
* Light-cone coordinates
* Light cone gauge
* Light dark matter
* Light field
* Light front holography
* Light front quantization
* Light pillar
* Light scattering
* Light scattering by particles
* Light-water reactor
* Lightcraft
* Lighter than air
* Lightest Supersymmetric Particle
* Lighthill mechanism
* Lightning
* Liljequist parhelion
* Limit loads
* Limiting magnitude
* Lincoln Wolfenstein
* Lindblad equation
* Lindblad superoperator
* Line element
* Line of action
* Line of force
* Line source
* Linear-rotational analogs
* Linear acetylenic carbon
* Linear canonical transformation
* Linear combination of atomic orbitals
* Linear compressor
* Linear density
* Linear dynamical system
* Linear elasticity
* Linear energy transfer
* Linear entropy
* Linear flow on the torus
* Linear motion
* Linear particle accelerator
* Linear phase
* Linear polarization
* Linear response function
* Linearised Einstein field equations
* Linearization
* Linearized gravity
* Linus Pauling
* Lionel G. Harrison
* Lionel Robert Wilberforce
* Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian)
* Liouville dynamical system
* Liouville field theory
* Lippmann electrometer
* Lippmann–Schwinger equation
* Liquefaction
* Liquefaction of gases
* Liquid
* Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
* Liquid bubble
* Liquid crystal
* Liquid-crystal laser
* Liquid-crystal polymer
* Liquid drop model
* Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
* Liquid helium
* Liquid hydrogen
* Liquid oxygen
* Liquid water path
* Liquidus
* Lisa Randall
* Lise Meitner
* Lissajous orbit
* List of Cornell Manhattan Project people
* List of Directors General of CERN
* List of Feynman diagrams
* List of IEEE awards
* List of IEEE societies
* List of Large Hadron Collider experiments
* List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees
* List of Nikola Tesla patents
* List of Nobel laureates in Physics
* List of OSA awards
* List of Super Proton Synchrotron experiments
* List of accelerator mass spectrometry facilities
* List of accelerators in particle physics
* List of alpha emitting materials
* List of area moments of inertia
* List of atmospheric radiative transfer codes
* List of baryons
* List of black holes
* List of centroids
* List of common physics notations
* List of cosmic microwave background experiments
* List of cosmologists
* List of dynamical systems and differential equations topics
* List of electromagnetism equations
* List of elementary physics formulae
* List of equations in classical mechanics
* List of equations in fluid mechanics
* List of equations in gravitation
* List of equations in nuclear and particle physics
* List of equations in quantum mechanics
* List of equations in wave theory
* List of experimental errors and frauds in physics
* List of fluid flows named after people
* List of fluid mechanics journals
* List of fusion experiments
* List of fusion power technologies
* List of geophysicists
* List of historic tsunamis
* List of hydrodynamic instabilities named after people
* List of important publications in physics
* List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules
* List of laser applications
* List of laser articles
* List of laser types
* List of lens designs
* List of letters used in mathematics and science
* List of light sources
* List of loop quantum gravity researchers
* List of materials properties
* List of mathematical topics in quantum theory
* List of mathematical topics in relativity
* List of mesons
* List of moments of inertia
* List of neutrino experiments
* List of noise topics
* List of nonlinear partial differential equations
* List of ocean circulation models
* List of orbits
* List of particles
* List of photonics equations
* List of physical quantities
* List of physicists
* List of physics concepts in primary and secondary education curricula
* List of physics journals
* List of plasma (physics) articles
* List of plasma physicists
* List of quantum field theories
* List of quantum gravity researchers
* List of quasiparticles
* List of refractive indices
* List of relativistic equations
* List of rogue waves
* List of scientific constants named after people
* List of scientific publications by Albert Einstein
* List of scientists whose names are used as SI units
* List of scientists whose names are used as non SI units
* List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants
* List of semiconductor materials
* List of standard Gibbs free energies of formation
* List of states of matter
* List of string theory topics
* List of synchrotron radiation facilities
* List of telescope types
* List of textbooks in statistical mechanics
* List of theoretical physicists
* List of thermal conductivities
* List of thermodynamic properties
* List of things named after Albert Einstein
* List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
* List of types of interferometers
* List of unsolved problems in physics
* List of unusual units of measurement
* List of waves named after people
* List of works by Nikolay Bogolyubov
* Listing's law
* Lithium-ion capacitor
* Lithium Tokamak Experiment
* Lithium burning
* Lithium iron phosphate battery
* Lithium triborate
* Little Higgs
* Little hierarchy problem
* Little string theory
* Little–Parks effect
* Liu Chen (physicist)
* Live MOS
* Living Reviews in Relativity
* Living Reviews in Solar Physics
* Liviu Constantinescu
* Liénard equation
* Liénard–Wiechert potential
* Llevantades
* Lloyd's mirror
* Lloyd Berkner
* Lloyd Cross
* Load factor (aeronautics)
* Local-density approximation
* Local Lorentz covariance
* Local density of states
* Local hidden-variable theory
* Local oxidation nanolithography
* Local quantum field theory
* Local reference frame
* Local spacetime structure
* Local symmetry
* Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh
* Lock-in amplifier
* Lockin effect
* Logarithmic Schrödinger equation
* Logarithmic conformal field theory
* Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute
* London equations
* London field
* London moment
* London penetration depth
* Long-lived fission product
* Long-period fiber grating
* Long-range order
* Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment
* Long Josephson junction
* Long baseline acoustic positioning system
* Long delayed echo
* Long path laser
* Long wavelength limit
* Longitudinal static stability
* Look-elsewhere effect
* Looming and similar refraction phenomena
* Loop braid group
* Loop entropy
* Loop integral
* Loop quantum cosmology
* Loop quantum gravity
* Loren Acton
* Lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations
* Lorentz Medal
* Lorentz covariance
* Lorentz ether theory
* Lorentz factor
* Lorentz force
* Lorentz force velocimetry
* Lorentz group
* Lorentz interval
* Lorentz invariance in loop quantum gravity
* Lorentz scalar
* Lorentz transformation
* Lorentz–Heaviside units
* Lorenz Hengler
* Lorenz S. Cederbaum
* Lorenz gauge condition
* Lorenzo A. Richards
* Lorin Blodget
* Loránd Eötvös
* Los Alamos National Laboratory
* Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
* Los Alamos Primer
* Loschmidt's paradox
* Loschmidt constant
* Lossy medium
* Loss–DiVincenzo quantum computer
* Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim
* Lotus effect
* Loudness
* Loudspeaker acoustics
* Louis-Sébastien Lenormand
* Louis Alan Hazeltine
* Louis Alfred Becquerel
* Louis B. Slichter
* Louis Essen
* Louis Georges Gouy
* Louis Harold Gray
* Louis Michel (physicist)
* Louis Moresi
* Louis Néel
* Louis Paul Cailletet
* Louis Plack Hammett
* Louis Rendu
* Louis Ridenour
* Louis Rosen
* Louis Slotin
* Louis Winslow Austin
* Louis Witten
* Louis de Broglie
* Louise Dolan
* Loup Verlet
* Love wave
* Low-dimensional chaos in stellar pulsations
* Low-energy electron diffraction
* Low-g condition
* Low-ionization nuclear emission-line region
* Low-κ dielectric
* Low Earth orbit
* Low Energy Antiproton Ring
* Low Energy Ion Ring
* Low field NMR
* Low frequency
* Lower critical solution temperature
* Lower tangent arc
* Loyd A. Jones
* Lubberts effect
* Luboš Motl
* Lubrication
* Lubrication theory
* Lubricity
* Luca Gammaitoni
* Luca Turin
* Lucas cell
* Luciano Maiani
* Luciano Pietronero
* Lucien Hardy
* Lucien LaCoste
* Lucio Russo
* Lucy Jones
* Ludvig Faddeev
* Ludvig Lorenz
* Ludwieg tube
* Ludwig A. Colding
* Ludwig Boltzmann
* Ludwig Hopf
* Ludwig Lange (physicist)
* Ludwig Prandtl
* Ludwig Schupmann
* Ludwig Waldmann
* Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert
* Ludwig Zehnder
* Ludwik Leibler
* Ludwik Silberstein
* Luigi Galvani
* Luigi Puccianti
* Luis Walter Alvarez
* Luisa Ottolini
* Luise Meyer-Schützmeister
* Luiz Pinguelli Rosa
* Luke's variational principle
* Luke Chia-Liu Yuan
* Lumen (unit)
* Luminance
* Luminescence
* Luminiferous aether
* Luminophore
* Luminosity
* Luminosity distance
* Luminosity function
* Luminous efficacy
* Luminous energy
* Luminous flux
* Luminous intensity
* Lumped component
* Lumped element model
* Lumped parameters
* Lumpers and splitters
* Lunar Laser Ranging experiment
* Lunar eclipse
* Lunar theory
* Lund string model
* Lundquist number
* Luneburg lens
* Lunitidal interval
* Luttinger's theorem
* Luttinger liquid
* Luttinger parameter
* Luttinger–Kohn model
* Lux
* Lyapunov exponent
* Lyapunov time
* Lyapunov vector
* Lyc photon
* Lyman-alpha forest
* Lyman-alpha line
* Lyman limit
* Lyman series
* Lyman–Werner photons
* Lyn Evans
* Lyoluminescence
* Lyot filter
* Lyot stop
* László Tisza
* Léon Brillouin
* Léon Foucault
* Léon Rosenfeld
* Léon Van Hove
* LC circuit
* L–C loaded