Timeline for Degrees of freedom in Quantum Mechanics
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| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:41 | vote | accept | Roshan Shrestha | ||
| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:40 | comment | added | CuriousOne | @DanielSank: I'll take your word for it. In any case, I think, it would be too hard to understand. | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:39 | comment | added | DanielSank | @RoshanShrestha: Actually, talking about the number of occupied states is pretty similar to talking about which degrees of freedom are active, as in my answer. Is there any way in which we can improve this answer to your satisfaction? | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:37 | comment | added | DanielSank | @CuriousOne: I wouldn't go there for this question. I just don't think that's what OP is asking about and I don't really think it clarifies the point at hand. | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:35 | comment | added | Roshan Shrestha | Thanks a lot for the response so far, Phew That's a heck of a lot of things to understand. Actually, the concept of degrees of freedom came up while we were studying Statistical mechanics, I didnot like how my TA interpreted the degrees of freedom in QM as it depends on the Number of states occupied. | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:25 | comment | added | CuriousOne | Yep. I think you got it. Would it help if we add that in classical mechanics degrees of freedom are additive, while in quantum mechanics they are defined by the tensor product on the individual Hilbert spaces, hence there seem to be many more of them? Sounds a bit too advanced, does it not? | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:18 | history | answered | DanielSank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |