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Steve Martin
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high energy particle physics, -+++
The cover art is an AI-generated Schrodinger's cat emerging triumphant, and fully decohered, after thinking outside the box. (4/4)
August 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This is close to the final form, but the published version will have an additional chapter, "Invitation to Quantum Information", and a few more exercises. If you have taught or will be teaching graduate quantum mechanics, or know somebody that is, please take a look and spread the word. (3/4)
August 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This is not just a set of lecture notes, but rather a full-fledged textbook. Beside the traditional topics found in older books, I've included discussions of the hidden variables alternative, Bell inequalities, entangled subsystems and open systems, generalized measurements, and decoherence. (2/4)
August 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
What the algorithms hear when you say that: "CELEBRITY RELATIONSHIPS! PRO TENNIS!! MCENROE-EVERT LOVE CHILD FOR NYC MAYOR!!!"
June 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The crucial HVP contribution was data-driven in the previous estimates, until lattice theorists came to the rescue. So not so clear to me that doubting "theorists' calculations" should be awarded the "huge win". Indeed, the present situation seems to be that theory is ahead of experiment on the HVP.
May 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Yeah but they didn't have distractions like arXiv and Mathematica and the internet.
February 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Great read! Do Heisenberg's comments mean that the QM version of her 1st theorem (if the Hamiltonian commutes with an observable [symmetry generator], then the probabilities of outcomes of measurements of that observable don't depend on time) was found independently of Noether's earlier work?
February 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM