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Request to physicists: Would you be willing to provide some informal feedback on my new approach to QM?

Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on

I have a request to make to physicists: Would they be willing to provide some informal feedback on my new approach to QM?

Update (2021.09.21 15:57 IST): There were unusually many blog hits for the document. ... I do like the work getting noticed, but still, I guess, a clarification is in order:

A preliminary document on my fresh new approach to QM

Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on

Hello, World

Here is a document that jots down, in a brief, point-wise manner, the elements of my new approach to understanding quantum mechanics.

Please note that the writing is very much at a preliminary stage. It is very much a work in progress. However, it does jot down many essential ideas.

I am uploading the document at iMechanica just to have an externally verifiable time-stamp to it. Further versions will also be posted at this thread.

Modeling Materials Short Course in Erlangen, Germany

Submitted by Erik Bitzek on

 

WHAT

Five-day short course on the fundamentals of continuum, atomistic and multiscale modeling of materials.

WHO

Prof. Ellad B. Tadmor (U. Minnesota, USA) and Prof. Ronald E. Miller (Carleton University, Canada).

An interesting arXiv paper: "Precession optomechanics"

Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on

Hi all,

Just thought that the following paper archived at the arXiv yesterday could be of general interest to any mechanician:

Xingyu Zhang, Matthew Tomes, Tal Carmon (2011) "Precession optomechanics," arXiv:1104.4839 [^]

The fig. 1 in it makes the matter conceptually so simple that the paper can be recommended to any mechanician for his general reading, and not only to a specialist in the field.



--Ajit

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Journal Club Theme of February 2009: Finite Element Methods in Quantum Mechanics

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Welcome to the February 2009 issue. In this issue, we will discuss the use of finite elements (FEs) in quantum mechanics, with specific focus on the quantum-mechanical problem that arises in crystalline solids. We will consider the electronic structure theory based on the Kohn-Sham equations of density functional theory (KS-DFT): in real-space, Schrödinger and Poisson equations are solved in a parallelepiped unit cell with Bloch-periodic and periodic boundary conditions, respectively.