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What really are superselection sectors and what are they used for?
When reading the term superselection sector, I always wrongly thought this must have something to do with supersymmetry ... DON'T laugh at me ... ;-)
But now I have read in this answer, that for ...
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Proof that the One-Dimensional Simple Harmonic Oscillator is Non-Degenerate?
The standard treatment of the one-dimensional quantum simple harmonic oscillator (SHO) using the raising and lowering operators arrives at the countable basis of eigenstates $\{\vert n \rangle\}_{n = ...
