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Huge confusion with Fermions and Bosons and how they relate to total spin of atom
I am supremely confused when something has spin or when it does not. For example, atomic Hydrogen has 4 fermions, three quarks to make a proton, and 1 electron. There is an even number of fermions, ...
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Canonical partition of a boson gas
I have a 1D gas made of $N$ particles placed in a harmonic potential well, so the Hamiltonian is:
$$ \mathcal H = \sum_{j=1}^N \left ( \frac{p_j^2}{2m} + \frac{1}{2}m\omega^2 x_j^2 \right )$$
The ...
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number of gravitons launched by a proton
The wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_bosons describes how in QM exchanges of gauge bosons carry force, and describes how the graviton may also be a gauge boson.
If the observable ...
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How do particles become entangled?
A person asked me this and I'm just a lowly physical chemist.
I used a classical analogy (how good or bad is this and how to fix?)
Basically, light has a net angular momentum of zero, insofar as ...
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Combining two finite number fock spaces into one
Say I have two separate systems of identical Bosons, one with N Bosons the other with M. System one is described by a state $|\psi_1\rangle$ the other with $|\psi_2 \rangle$ which are expressed in a ...
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photon and Z boson interference?
I'm not certain that this question will make sense, but here goes...
In most monte carlo generators, when Z events are produced, there is a lower mass cutoff on the Z pole. I've been told that this ...
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Can the mass of longitudinal and transverse W bosons be measured separately?
Some higgsless unified models of particle physics predict that the mass of longitudinally polarized W bosons and the mass of transversely polarized W bosons are different.
In those models, a ...
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How does a state vector change under an exchange of a boson and a fermion?
How does a state vector change under an exchange of a boson and a fermion ? That's how is $\Psi_{\alpha,\beta}$ related to $\Psi_{\beta,\alpha}$ where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are a boson and a fermion ...
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Why is the transition into N proportional to N+1?
I am having trouble understanding the origin of the bosonic stimulated emission. How can I qualitatively understand why bosons Boson's attract each other into similar quantum states.
The furtherst I ...
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Fock picture of bosonification in condensates
I want to understand how bosonification in a condensate must be interpreted in the Fock states picture
Say i have uncoupled fermions in a set of states $E_1$, $E_2$ ... over the vacuum $E_0$. They ...
