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Jul 6, 2020 at 12:50 vote accept ProfM
Jun 28, 2020 at 2:51 comment added Thomas @bolbteppa. I agree with others. It will be great if you can convert your comment to an answer with more details
Jun 28, 2020 at 2:45 comment added epalos @bolbteppa I encourage you to elaborate and post as an answer. A deeper theoreitical insight like the one you present will be very helpful to a lot of folks!
Jun 27, 2020 at 17:09 comment added Tyberius @bolbteppa I would certainly be interested in seeing your comment converted to an answer.
Jun 27, 2020 at 2:31 comment added Nike Dattani @bolbteppa I totally agree with Cody. I think this comment should really be an answer. Welcome to our brand new site !!!! By the way there was some discussion about whether or not people should be discouraged away from putting "answers" in comments: mattermodeling.meta.stackexchange.com/q/74/5. Eventually all these comments (yours, Cody's, mine) will probably get deleted if the chain becomes huge.
Jun 26, 2020 at 23:24 history edited Nike Dattani
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Jun 26, 2020 at 23:09 comment added Cody Aldaz @bolbteppa could you move this to an answer, I think you have something good here.
Jun 26, 2020 at 23:04 comment added bolbteppa There are deeper reasons than calculation issues as to why wave functions for large numbers of particles are useless, c.f. Landau Vol. 5 Statistical Physics, Sec. 5: due to the extremely high number of particles, the separation between energy levels becomes so small that the notion of a stationary state (a state s.t. the energy has a definite value) loses meaning, because a measurement fundamentally perturbs the energy so that the uncertainty in the energy measurement is just too big measure E accurately. The resolution is density matrices etc...
Jun 26, 2020 at 22:49 comment added Nike Dattani It's become a Hot Network Question (HNQ), so I made the title a bit shorter so that it fits on one line in the side bar.
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Jun 26, 2020 at 17:23 answer added Nike Dattani timeline score: 40
Jun 26, 2020 at 8:51 history edited ProfM CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 26, 2020 at 8:44 history asked ProfM CC BY-SA 4.0