Monday, September 10, 2007

Reading Assignement 11

Most interesting part of the material

I put the most interesting bit first, since the most difficult part follows on from this.
The indistinguishability between the identical particles is always interesting, by using the uncertainty principle to see that it is impossible to identify the particles using quantum mechanics, but using classical they can easily be labelled.

Most difficult part of the material

The problem lies in writing the eigenfunctions such that they reflect the properties that multielectrons have. It appears that this is done using linear combinations of the eigenfunctions, and the maths looks very messy and difficult. If this could be simplified the understanding would be much easier.

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