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Dynamic window approach

The dynamic window approach (DWA) is a local obstacle-avoidance method for mobile robots, introduced by Fox, Burgard, and Thrun in 1997 and used as the default local planner in the ROS navigation stack.

Dynamic Yield

Dynamic Yield is a Tel Aviv-founded personalization software company whose Experience OS platform tailors digital content in real time, owned by Mastercard since 2022 after McDonald's bought it in 2019.

Dynamic-link library

A dynamic-link library (DLL), also called a dynamically linked library, is a shared library in Microsoft Windows containing functions and data used by applications and other DLLs.

Oct 22, 2026

Dynamical axion field

The dynamical axion field is a time- and space-dependent field in magnetic topological insulators, arising from magnetic fluctuations and coupling to electromagnetic fields like the hypothetical elementary axion.

Dynamical Casimir effect

The dynamical Casimir effect converts vacuum fluctuations of a quantum field into real photons through fast boundary changes, first observed in superconducting circuits in 2011.

Dynamical decoupling

Dynamical decoupling is a quantum control technique that applies timed pulse sequences to qubits to average away environmental noise, extending coherence time and improving gate fidelity.

Dynamical downscaling

Dynamical downscaling is a climate modeling technique in which a regional model driven at its boundaries by coarse global simulations produces higher-resolution regional climate projections.

Dynamical friction

Dynamical friction is the systematic deceleration a massive body, such as a satellite galaxy or star, experiences moving through lighter particles, derived by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in 1943.

Oct 22, 2026

Dynamical gauge fields in cold atoms

Dynamical gauge fields in cold atoms are engineered quantum systems in which ultracold atoms in optical lattices simulate lattice gauge theories, reaching real-time dynamics beyond classical computation.

Dynamical lifetimes and stability of small Solar System bodies

The dynamical lifetime of a small Solar System body is how long it stays in a given orbital region before ejection, collision, or transfer to another class.

Dynamical mean-field theory

Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is a non-perturbative computational method for strongly correlated electron systems, introduced by Antoine Georges and Gabriel Kotliar in 1992 to describe the Mott metal-insulator transition.

Oct 22, 2026

Dynamical quantum phase transition

A dynamical quantum phase transition is a sharp nonanalyticity in the real-time evolution of a quantum many-body system, typically after a quantum quench, introduced in 2013.

Dynamical Relaxation

Dynamical relaxation is the process by which a self-gravitating stellar system approaches statistical equilibrium, proceeding through two-body encounters or through violent relaxation driven by potential fluctuations.

Dynamical symmetry

Dynamical symmetry, also called hidden symmetry, is a symmetry of a quantum or classical system whose Hamiltonian is invariant under phase-space transformations beyond geometric symmetries.

Dynamical system

A dynamical system is a mathematical model of a process whose future is determined by its present state, through a state space and an evolution rule.

Dynamical triangulations

Dynamical triangulations (DT) is a lattice formulation of quantum gravity, arising in the 1980s, that replaces the path integral over spacetime geometries with a sum over equilateral simplicial triangulations.

Dynamical tunnelling

Dynamical tunnelling is quantum tunnelling between phase-space regions separated by classical dynamics rather than a static potential barrier, first described by Davis and Heller in 1981.

Dynamics (mechanics)

Dynamics, also known as classical dynamics, is the branch of mechanics studying how forces cause motion, in contrast with kinematics, and rests on Newton's laws of motion.

Dynamics (music)

Dynamics (music): the Italian-derived markings p (piano, soft) and f (forte, loud) and gradations like crescendo and diminuendo indicating relative loudness. Originating with Gabrieli's 1597 Sonata pian' e forte and matured with the fortepiano and Mannheim School, they are relative, not absolute, loudness instructions.

Oct 21, 2026

Dynamin

Dynamin (DNM1, DNM2, DNM3) is a 100-kDa large GTPase that forms helical polymers around endocytic bud necks and catalyzes GTP-dependent membrane fission in clathrin-mediated endocytosis; mutations cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and centronuclear myopathy.

Oct 20, 2026

Dynamin, GTPase domain

Dynamin GTPase domain (G domain, InterPro IPR001401): the ~300-residue N-terminal GTP-binding/hydrolysis engine of dynamin superfamily proteins; dimerizes head-to-head with GDP·AlF4−, uses a catalytic cation instead of an arginine finger, and powers membrane fission.