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The weird behavior of indistinguishable particles is discussed. They found a way to completely hide their individual identities. Then we show how particles can simultaneously exist and not exist in Fock space. Finally, the density operator is used to make QM even more probabilistic.
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R. Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd edn. (Springer, 2011). (Excellent textbook. Two extensive chapters on the path integral)
A. Messiah, Quantum Mechanics (Dover Publications, 2014). (A classic and still one of the best textbooks on QM. Particularly excellent regarding relativistic generalizations)
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Schwindt, JM. (2016). N-Particle Systems. In: Conceptual Basis of Quantum Mechanics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24526-3_12
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