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What prompted the development of Pauli matrices?

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What prompted the development of Pauli matrices?

« on: 05/10/2017 06:20:06 »

I know that they deal with complex numbers but what is the history that led to them?

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Re: What prompted the development of Pauli matrices?

« Reply #1 on: 05/10/2017 12:54:30 »

OK I'm past that and onto observables, su(2) and Hilbert spaces.

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Re: What prompted the development of Pauli matrices?

« Reply #2 on: 05/10/2017 21:04:11 »

https://www.quora.com/How-is-force-defined-in-quantum-mechanics
This is a very interesting link. I'll get back to it. Suffice to say it says QM sees forces as potentials.

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