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Collective excitations in periodic, elastic arrangements of atoms or molecules in condensed matter, like solids and some liquids. They are quasiparticle quantum modes of vibration of elastic structures of interacting particles.

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Why do we not use the Schrödinger equation/standard QM to describe phonons (or other quasi p...

So we cannot use the Schrodinger equation to describe phonons, or indeed any field theory where particles are created and destroyed. …
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