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Take the 2-minute tour × What is the basic postulate on which QM rests. Is it that the position of a particle can only be described only in the probabilistic sense given by the state function $\psi(r)$ ? We can even go ahead and abandon the particle formalism as well. So what is the QM all about ? A probabilistic desc...
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The poised realm Reinventing the Sacred Stuart Kauffman (2008) From the point of view of consciousness studies, Kauffman’s ‘poised realm’ is the most interesting aspect of his work. He identifies the poised realm with conditions in photosynthetic organisms where quantum coherence begins to decohere, but is forced b...
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General relativity From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Slow motion computer simulation of the black hole binary system GW150914 as seen by a nearby observer, during 0.33 s of its final inspiral, merge, and ringdown. The star field behind the black holes is being heavily distorted and appe...
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How to Use the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in Relation to Position and Momentum How to Use Ket Notation in Quantum Physics How to Use Operators for Quantities in Quantum Physics How to Derive the Schrödinger Equation In quantum physics, the Schrödinger technique, which involves wave mechanics, uses wave function...
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Scientific Explanation First published Fri May 9, 2003; substantive revision Wed Sep 24, 2014 Issues concerning scientific explanation have been a focus of philosophical attention from Pre-Socratic times through the modern period. However, recent discussion really begins with the development of the Deductive-Nomologi...
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Chemistry: Understanding Electron Spin Like what you see? Buy now to watch it online or download. You Might Also Like About this Lesson • Type: Video Tutorial • Length: 9:08 • Media: Video/mp4 • Use: Watch Online & Download • Access Period: Unrestricted • Download: MP4 (iPod compatible) • Size: 97 ...
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Jihad or Bust Mustafa Akyol believes that “the main obstacle to Christian religious freedom in Turkey is not Islam but Turkish nationalism and laïcité ” (“Render Unto Atatürk,” March). And regarding the “verses of the sword” in the Qur’an, Akyol suggests “it is possible to argue that these verses refer only to those n...
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adiabatic approximation Show Summary Details Quick Reference An approximation used in quantum mechanics when the time dependence of parameters, such as the internuclear distance between atoms in a molecule, is slowly varying. This approximation means that the solution of the Schrödinger equation at one time goes con...
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Friday, July 10, 2009 List of censors Bellow you can find a list of sites, from where I was banned at least five times in sequence. This list is of informative purposes only and it will be updated gradually. "...They can't help it. Some people are just born with a lack of oxygen..." Science and philosophy This po...
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Magnetic potential From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Magnetic vector potential) Jump to: navigation, search The term magnetic potential can be used for either of two quantities in classical electromagnetism: the magnetic vector potential, A, (often simply called the vector potential) and the ma...
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Hellmann–Feynman theorem From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Hellmann-Feynman theorem) Jump to: navigation, search In quantum mechanics, the Hellmann–Feynman theorem relates the derivative of the total energy with respect to a parameter, to the expectation value of the derivative of the Hamiltoni...
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Tag Archives: papers Quantum Times Article about Surveys on the Foundations of Quantum Theory poll of physicists attending a conference? A. How long ago did the big bang happen? B. What is the correct approach to quantum gravity? C. Is nature supersymmetric? D. What is the correct way to understand quantum the...
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Friday, February 24, 2017 Domestic servants: a modest proposal I have fond memories of our Roomba, spinning mindlessly around our previous house, unable to empty itself and needing help to escape from under the bed. Didn't work in our current home - carpets too thick. We're as far as ever from artificial general int...
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Faster than light) Jump to: navigation, search Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communication and travel refer to the propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light. Under the special theory of relativity, a particle (that has re...
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Difference between revisions of "Essay:Rebuttal to Counterexamples to Relativity" From Conservapedia Jump to: navigation, search (It's getting ridiculous.) (vector spaces) Line 180: Line 180: #:Quantum field theory abounds with fields.  The Higgs particle has a Higgs field.  It has nothing to do with the "luminiferous...
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Atomic, molecular, and optical physics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Atomic, molecular, and optical physics (AMO) is the study of matter-matter and light-matter interactions; at the scale of one or a few atoms [1] and energy scales around several electron volts.[2]:1356[3] The thre...
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Take the 2-minute tour × When reading about Schrödinger's fundamental solution in 1D, $$u(t,x)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{4\pi it}} \int_\mathbb{R} u_0(y) e^{\frac{i(x-y)^2}{4t}}dy$$ the author says thus Schrödinger evolution is instantaneously smoothing for localised data: if $u_0$ is so localised as to be absolutely integrabl...
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Navigation and service 45th IFF Spring School Computing Solids: Models, Ab-initio Methods and Supercomputing 10 -21 March 2014 in Jülich, Germany Computational materials physics is concerned with the complex interplay of the myriad electrons and atoms in a solid, thereby producing a continuous stream of new and u...
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Navigation and service Young Investigators Group Dr. Nicole Helbig Ab initio description of double and charge transfer excitations: from solvable models to complex systems In double excitations not only one but two electrons are excited. While this concept is strictly only defined for non-interacting electrons one ...
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Dismiss Notice Join Physics Forums Today! EPR paradox and prediction time 1. Apr 22, 2014 #1 If we suppose we have an entangled pair in position/momentum and, following the argument, we measure position of particle A. We get a result let say xA. Then we want to predict the measurement of position of B, so ...
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Dismiss Notice Join Physics Forums Today! B The position of a particle/electron question 1. Jul 27, 2016 #1 When scientists say the position of a particle or electron cannot be known at the same time as its speed, do they mean the particle's position in reference to jumping from energy levels in a single atom, ...
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lördag 29 juni 2013 The Linear Scalar MultiD Schrödinger Equation as Pseudo-Science If we are still going to put up with these damn quantum jumps, I am sorry that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory. (Erwin Schrödinger) The pillars of modern physics are quantum mechanics and relativity theory, which both h...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 Igpay Atinlay On page 258 of "The Annubis Gates" by Tim Powers, the hero, Brendan Doyle, is leafing through some ancient manuscript  .. when he comes across this message, written in his own handwriting from his future self! Can you read it? I had some faint recollection of a child's (or g...
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Probability amplitude From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Transition amplitude) Jump to: navigation, search A wave function for a single electron on 5d atomic orbital of a hydrogen atom. The solid body shows the places where the electron's probability density is above a certain value (here 0.02 nm...
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Take the 2-minute tour × Recently there have been some interesting questions on standard QM and especially on uncertainty principle and I enjoyed reviewing these basic concepts. And I came to realize I have an interesting question of my own. I guess the answer should be known but I wasn't able to resolve the problem m...
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Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is a relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics. QED was developed by a number of physicists, beginning in the late 1920s. It basically describes how light and matter interact. More specifically it deals with the interactions between electrons, positrons and photons. QED mathemat...
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Tags: wavefunction A wave function is a mathematical tool used in quantum mechanics. It is a function typically of space or momentum or spin and possibly of time that returns the probability amplitude of a position or momentum for a subatomic particle. Mathematically, it is a function from a space that maps the possi...
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Viewpoint: Crystals of Time • Jakub Zakrzewski, Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-059 Krakow, Poland Physics 5, 116 Researchers propose how to realize time crystals, structures whose lowest-energy states are periodic both in time and space. T. Li et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. (2012) Fi...
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G. Phi. Fo. Fum. Update (Dec. 14): The long wait is over!  Here’s Laci’s paper on the arXiv.  So far, I’ve read it only deeply enough to note that it contains the following sentence: A group G ≤ S(Ω) defines the category of G-isomorphisms of strings on the domain Ω; the natural notation for this category, the central...
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Take the 2-minute tour × I have seen many questions on SE on the dual nature of electrons behaving in certain circumstances as particles and as waves in some other circumstance. There is one thing I couldn't get a clear answer on. When making double slit experiment, we all agree that the electrons behave as waves. Th...
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Standard Model (mathematical formulation) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For a less mathematical description, see Standard Model. Standard Model of Particle Physics. The diagram shows the elementary particles of the Standard Model (the Higgs boson, the three generations of quarks and...
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Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Coauthor, Supercooperators; Frontiers of Complexity General Relativity  General relativity is one example of a beautiful explanation of the way nature works. In fact I would argue that it is a truly extraordinary example because it is beautiful in three distinct ways....
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Durham e-Theses You are in: Implementation and application of advanced density functionals Gibson, Michael Christopher (2006) Implementation and application of advanced density functionals. Doctoral thesis, Durham University. Density functional theory (DFT) is a method of effectively solving the many-electron Sc...
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Formation of matter-wave soliton trains by modulational instability See allHide authors and affiliations Science  28 Apr 2017: Vol. 356, Issue 6336, pp. 422-426 DOI: 10.1126/science.aal3220 Imaging an atomic soliton train Solitons—waveforms that keep their shape as they travel—can form in various environments where...
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Open main menu Condensed matter physics The diversity of systems and phenomena available for study makes condensed matter physics the most active field of contemporary physics: one third of all American physicists self-identify as condensed matter physicists,[1] and the Division of Condensed Matter Physics is the l...
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy The Uncertainty Principle First published Mon Oct 8, 2001; substantive revision Mon Jul 3, 2006 Quantum mechanics is generally regarded as the physical theory that is our best candidate for a fundamental and universal description of the physical world. The conceptual framework emp...
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Monday, May 28, 2018 What do physicists mean when they say the laws of nature are beautiful? Simplicity in photographic art. “Monday Blues Chat” By Erin Photography In my upcoming book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray,” I explain what makes a theory beautiful in the eyes of a physicist and how beauty ma...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Expanded Reproduction in an Abstract Capitalist Society In the previous post, 'Simple Reproduction in an Abstract Capitalist Society', we looked at a basic model of how a capitalist society engaged in generalised commodity production can reproduce itself - but without growing. If you didn't...
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A refutation of Salterism [Reproduced below is James Goulding’s refutation of Salterism, which is relevant to a discussion on Salterism taking place across several Dark Enlightenment blogs at the moment, hyperlinked at Outside In. James Goulding famously – and frustratingly – deleted all of his incredible work on his...
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Public Release:  Theoretical physicists are modeling complex quantum processes with cold atoms and ions RUDN University IMAGE: This is a diagram of a hybrid atomic-ion trap. view more  Credit: Vladimir Melezhik A group of researchers from Russia, Germany and Iran develops computational methods for creating a theo...
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Until recently, scientists didn't think it could be done. They thought the fundamental laws of physics would forbid it. But a persistent group of scientists at the University of Warsaw have now accomplished the impossible: They created a hologram of a solitary particle of light. Quantum holograms Unlike photography,...
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Presentation is loading. Please wait. Presentation is loading. Please wait. Quantum Physics Waves and particles The Quantum Sun Schrödinger’s Cat and the Quantum Code. Similar presentations Presentation on theme: "Quantum Physics Waves and particles The Quantum Sun Schrödinger’s Cat and the Quantum Code."— Presenta...
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Ab Initio Description of Open-Shell Nuclei: Merging No-Core Shell Model and In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group Approaches The central task of ab initio nuclear structure theory is to solve the many-body Schrödinger equation for specific nuclei of interest. This equation can be cast as an eigenvalue problem tha...
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By Vladimir Dorodnitsyn Intended for researchers, numerical analysts, and graduate scholars in a number of fields of utilized arithmetic, physics, mechanics, and engineering sciences, Applications of Lie teams to distinction Equations is the 1st booklet to supply a scientific development of invariant distinction schem...
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WKB approximation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from WKBJ approximation) Jump to: navigation, search In mathematical physics, the WKB approximation or WKB method is a method for finding approximate solutions to linear differential equations with spatially varying coefficients. It is typically us...
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Dismiss Notice Join Physics Forums Today! Spin from QM and SR? 1. Oct 2, 2008 #1 I've been trying to understand something for the past few days but can't seem to get my head around it. Could someone please explain to me how an extra internal degree of freedom arises for a particle when special relativity i...
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The Truth About "Homeopathic" Medicine (#23) Homeopathy -- effective, useless, or dangerous? (Photo: Marcos Zerene) Homeopathy — effective, useless, or dangerous? (Photo: Marcos Zerene) [Audio version] The Truth About "Homeopathic" Medicine (#23) [Text version] (You can find the full transcript of this episode her...
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Lectures on renormalization and asymptotic safety Sandor Nagy Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Debrecen, P.O. Box 5, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary MTA-DE Particle Physics Research Group, P.O.Box 51, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary A short introduction is given on the functional renormalization group method, putti...
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Quantum mechanics   (Redirected from Quantum physics) Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles.[2]: 1.1  It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field the...
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ਫਰਮਾ:ਕੁਆਂਟਮ ਮਕੈਨਿਕਸ ਨਾਲ ਜਾਣ-ਪਛਾਣ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ, ਇੱਕ ਅਜ਼ਾਦ ਗਿਆਨਕੋਸ਼ ਤੋਂ Jump to navigation Jump to search {{ਕੁਆਂਟਮ ਮਕੈਨਿਕਸ}} ਕੁਆਂਟਮ ਮਕੈਨਿਕਸ (QM; also known as ਕੁਆਂਟਮ ਫਿਜ਼ਿਕਸ or quantum theory) including quantum field theory, is a fundamental branch of physics concerned with processes involving, for example, atoms and phot...
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Jun 212015 Someone on Quora asked if hackers really need multiple computers. Well… I am not technically a hacker (in the bad sense of the word) as I do not use my skills for illicit purposes, but I certainly have multiple computers, as this panoramic picture taken from my home office chair demonstrates: Here is what’...
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Categories Pricing Corporate Free Textbook Atomistic Models Concepts in Computational Chemistry 0 Reviews Language:  English 1. Introduction 1. What is molecular modeling? 2. Briefsummary 2. Molecular quantum mechanics 1. The Schrödinger equation 2. The molecular Hamiltonian 3. Some basic ...
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SEMITIP, version 6 Based on versions 1-5 of SEMITIP, written by R. M. Feenstra during 2001 - Feb/2011 Version 6 introduced May/2011. SEMITIP is a Poisson solver specifically designed for problems involving a hyperbolic shaped probe tip in proximity to a semiconductor. Arbitrary spatial arrangements of surface (or bu...
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Research teams from many disciplines across campus use the Illinois Campus Cluster for a variety of research needs. Summaries of some of their work are provided here. The modeling and simulations related research focus is extending Kohn-Sham density functional theory and first-principles derived atomistic simulation t...
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Statistical Thermodynamics and Rate Theories/Electronic energy Atoms and molecules can hold different energy levels that correspond to different distributions in how the electron density is distributed around them. These are counted as electronic degrees of freedom. For example, the simplest atom is the hydrogen atom...
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IRIS Pol. Torinohttps://iris.polito.itIl sistema di repository digitale IRIS acquisisce, archivia, indicizza, conserva e rende accessibili prodotti digitali della ricerca.Sat, 22 Jan 2022 02:08:45 GMT2022-01-22T02:08:45Z1021Advances in molecular quantum computing: From technological modeling to circuit design Advances ...
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Signal, Image and Video Processing , Volume 8, Issue 1, pp 27–37 Solving Schrödinger equation via Tartaglia/Pascal triangle: a possible link between stochastic processing and quantum mechanics Original Paper DOI: 10.1007/s11760-013-0473-y Cite this article as: Farina, A., Frasca, M. & Sedehi, M. SIViP (2014) 8: 27...
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DRUM Community: Atmospheric & Oceanic Science http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2264 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:43:39 GMT 2015-03-04T22:43:39Z OCEAN VARIABILITY IN CMIP5 (COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT PHASE 5) HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16284 Title: OCEAN VARIABILITY IN CMIP5 (COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPAR...
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The invisible glass ceiling of the global greenhouse, versus factual data Fig. 1: the latest UAH global temperature subset satellite-based latest global warming data (credit: Dr Roy Spencer). According to all IPCC greenhouse effect models, air warmed due to sunlight absorption by increasing atmospheric CO2 causes inc...
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You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘method of characteristics’ tag. I’ve just uploaded to the arXiv my paper “The high exponent limit $p \to \infty$ for the one-dimensional nonlinear wave equation“, submitted to Analysis & PDE.  This paper concerns an under-explored limit for the Cauchy problem \displ...
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Historical basis of quantum theory Basic considerations Early developments Planck’s radiation law In 1900 the German theoretical physicist Max Planck made a bold suggestion. He assumed that the radiation energy is emitted, not continuously, but rather in discrete packets called quanta. The energy E of the quant...
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Sign up Here's how it works: 1. Anybody can ask a question 2. Anybody can answer Can anybody give a list of the most fundamental assumptions of quantum mechanics in plain english ? share|cite|improve this question what do you mean with assumptions ? – Stefano Borini Nov 10 '10 at 0:39 Just like we have a dimens...
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Take the 2-minute tour × When reading about Schrödinger's fundamental solution in 1D, $$u(t,x)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{4\pi it}} \int_\mathbb{R} u_0(y) e^{\frac{i(x-y)^2}{4t}}dy$$ the author says thus Schrödinger evolution is instantaneously smoothing for localised data: if $u_0$ is so localised as to be absolutely integrabl...
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Electronic band structure From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search In solid-state physics, the electronic band structure (or simply band structure) of a solid describes those ranges of energy that an electron within the solid may have (called energy bands, allowed bands, or simply bands) and ...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009 The Schrödinger Equation - Corrections In my last post, I claimed Additionally, we can extend from here that any quantum operator is written in terms of its classical counterpart by Peeter Joot correctly pointed out that this result does not follow from the argument involving the Hamiltonian. W...
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Skip to main content [ "article:topic-guide", "authorname:flowlerm" ] Physics LibreTexts 9: Perturbation Theory • Page ID • The Schrödinger equation for realistic systems quickly becomes unwieldy, and analytical solutions are only available for very simple systems - the ones we have described as fundamental syste...
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Is the quantum world real? Quantum physics, the field in physics concerned with the behaviour of very small scale systems, has been so far, in many respects, a commendable success, finding many engineering applications, and refining our current knowledge of the fundamental laws of nature. However, there still persis...
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Photoemission of Ps from single-crystal p-Ge semiconductors The production of positronium in a low-temperature (cryogenic) environment is in general only possible using materials that operate via non-thermal processes. In previous experiments we showed that porous silica films can be used in this way at temperatures a...
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Tim Maudlin The Metaphysics Within Physics Tim Maudlin, The Metaphysics Within Physics, Oxford University Press, 2007, 197pp., $49.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780199218219. Reviewed by Richard Healey, University of Arizona This brief but fertile volume develops and defends the basic idea that "metaphysics, in so far as it is c...
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JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN PHYSICS Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five...
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Skip to content • Nano Express • Open Access Nanoparticle Near-Surface Electric Field Nanoscale Research Letters201611:48 • Received: 5 November 2015 • Accepted: 19 January 2016 • Published: Theoretical studies show that surface reconstruction in some crystals involves splitting the surface atomic laye...
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Skip to main content Chemistry LibreTexts 6.S: Vibrational States (Summary) [ "article:topic", "Author tag:Zielinski", "authorname:zielinskit", "showtoc:no", "license:ccbyncsa" ] • Page ID • In this chapter we developed the quantum mechanical description of the harmonic oscillator for a diatomic molecule and appl...
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Imagining The 9th Dimension 14 Sep Imagining the ninth dimension Let’s talk about the 9th dimension, postulated by first String Theory, which theorizes 10 dimensions, and then M Theory which theorizes 11 dimensions, the details of which i do not even begin to understand. I point you to the wonderful blog Imagining...
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Clusters of atoms and ions form a type of matter that is intermediate between single atoms and bulk matter. Metallic clusters are widely used as catalysts because they have a very high surface to volume ratio, which allows them to speed up chemical reactions. Researchers have, however, recently begun to see if magnetic...
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Take the 2-minute tour × The Schrödinger equation describes the quantum mechanics of a single massive non-relativistic particle. The Dirac equation governs a single massive relativistic spin-½ particle. The photon is a massless, relativistic spin-1 particle. What is the equivalent equation giving the quantum mechanic...
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Take the 2-minute tour × Until recently, I thought that graph theory is a topic which is well-suited for math olympiads, but which is a very small field of current mathematical research with not so many connections to "deeper" areas of mathematics. But then I stumbled over Bela Bollobas "Modern Graph Theory" in which...
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Take the 2-minute tour × This is something which I suspect is written up in introductory books on mathematical physics if I knew where to look. Suppose I have some parameters $t_1$, ..., $t_k$ ranging over a neighborhood in $\mathbb{R}^k$. I also have $k$ matrix-valued functions of the $t$'s: $H_1(t_1, \ldots, t_k)$, ...
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Friday, March 31, 2006 Quantum Probability I took part in a brief discussion over at antimeta which reminded me that I ought to get back to a document I started writing on quantum mechanics for dummies. One of my pet peeves is that I believe there to be a little bit of a conspiracy to make quantum mechanics seem less...
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Links For July 2014 The Koran talks about a mysterious immortal figure named Khidr who travels the Middle East and hangs out with prophets. And the passages about him seem to have inspired some of the Jewish folk tales about Elijah I heard growing up. Scientists find the gene that causes an entire family to be morb...
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The Schrödinger Equation Today I’d like to start doing some physics. I wish I could say that we were going to derive the Schrödinger equation — which is basically the master equation of quantum mechanics — but it doesn’t follow from a simple examination of mathematical principles. Its justification comes from the fact...
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Many-worlds interpretation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possibl...
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Scientific Method / Science & Exploration Happy 100th birthday to the Bohr atom Bohr's simple model led to quantum mechanics and beyond. Danish physicist Niels Bohr, whose model of atoms helped explain the spectrum of light emitted and absorbed by different elements, as illustrated by the spectrum emitted by the Sun...
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Academy of Achievement Logo Ehud Barak Interview: Ehud Barak Former Prime Minister of Israel May 4, 2001 San Antonio, Texas Back to Ehud Barak Interview Did you also live with a feeling of danger? Ehud Barak: Not at the time of my childhood. Ehud Barak Interview Photo What kind of student were you as a yo...
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Position available for modeling photoactive systems at Zuse-Institute Berlin [I will stick a job posting here for an opening at my research group at the Zuse-Institut Berlin (Germany), since some of the readers might be interested in the position or know suitable candidates] The details are announced here (in German,...
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FIDE: a REDUCE package for automation of FInite difference method for solving pDE. The article deals with automation of the process of numerical solving of partial differential equations systems (PDES) by means of computer algebra. For solving PDES the finite difference method is applied. The computer algebra system RE...
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fredag 27 maj 2011 Monstrosity of Quantum Mechanics 4: Quantum Computers The belief of the modern physicist that the linear multi-dimensional Schrödinger equation describes the quantum world of atoms and molecules, has led to the idea of the quantum computer: • device for computation that makes direct use of quantu...
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Eigenvalues and eigenvectors From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Eigenvalues) Jump to: navigation, search In this shear mapping the red arrow changes direction but the blue arrow does not. The blue arrow is an eigenvector of this shear mapping because it doesn't change direction, and since its len...
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Take the 2-minute tour × I am trying to understand how complex numbers made their way into QM. Can we have a theory of the same physics without complex numbers? If so, is the theory using complex numbers easier? share|improve this question Complex numbers are fundamental and natural and QM can't work without them - o...
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Angular momentum From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Orbital momentum vector) Jump to: navigation, search For a more accessible and less technical introduction to this topic, see Introduction to angular momentum. This gyroscope remains upright while spinning due to its angular momentum. In physic...
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Navigation and service Opens new window An accurate and realistic description of materials of scientific or technological interest requires ab-initio methods that are able to handle a variety of phenomena such as non-collinear magnetism, spin-orbit coupling effects, (external) electric fields, correlation effects, ...
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Car batteries powered by relativity French physicist Gaston Plante invented the lead-acid battery in 1859 – almost 50 years before Einstein developed his theories of relativity. Now scientists have found that the lead-acid battery, which is commonly used in cars, strongly relies on the effects of relativity. Specifica...
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Transition dipole moment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Three wavefunction solutions to the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for an electron in a harmonic oscillator potential. Left: The real part (blue) and imaginary part (red) of the wavefunction. Right: The probability of findi...
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Many-minds interpretation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The many-minds interpretation of quantum mechanics extends the many-worlds interpretation by proposing that the distinction between worlds should be made at the level of the mind of an individual observer. The concept was firs...
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Edit Article Eight Parts:Planck constantNovel ideasParticle and wave dualityUncertaintyWave functionSchrödinger equationQuantum superpositionIgnoring the classical picture Quantum physics (AKA quantum theory or quantum mechanics) is a branch of physics providing a description of the behaviour and interaction of matte...
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Nuclear force From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Strong nuclear force) Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the force that holds nucleons together in a nucleus. For the force that holds quarks together in a nucleon, see Strong interaction. Force (in units of 10,000 N) between two nuc...
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Singularities and Black Holes First published Mon Jun 29, 2009 1. Spacetime Singularities General relativity, Einstein's theory of space, time, and gravity, allows for the existence of singularities. On this nearly all agree. However, when it comes to the question of how, precisely, singularities are to be define...