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For questions about mathematical problems arising from quantum mechanics, a branch of physics describing the behaviour of nature at very small scales, at the level of atoms and subatomic particles.

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Path integral as quantum mechanics on the tangent bundle

Let $X$ be a configuration space, a finite-dimensional manifold. By "quantum mechanics on $X$" I mean a linear evolution equation on complex-valued functions on $X$, determined by a Hamiltonian $H\in …
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Is there a physical reason that fields in QFT are globally defined?

I have been trying to read a physics textbook on Quantum Field theory. There seems to me to be a bit of a disconnect in most texts I have looked at between quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, …
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What kind of geometric object is the Pauli spin matrix vector $\vec{\sigma} = (\sigma_1, \si...

The Pauli spin vector encodes a two-complex-dimensional unitary representation of the Lie algebra $\bf{su}_2$. A basis of the Lie algebra maps to the matrix algebra $\bf{gl}_2(\mathbb{C}),$ giving a $ …
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