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Many-Particle Physics

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Abstract

First quantization in physics refers to the property of particles that certain operators do not commute:

$$\begin{gathered} \left[ {x,{p_x}} \right] = i\rlap{--} h \hfill \\ E \to \rlap{--} hi\frac{\partial }{{{\partial _t}}} \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$
((1.1.1))

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Mahan, G.D. (1990). Introductory Material. In: Many-Particle Physics. Physics of Solids and Liquids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1469-1_1

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