• In the mathematical field of knot theory, a quantum knot invariant or quantum invariant of a knot or link is a linear sum of colored Jones polynomial...
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  • appropriate substitutions from HOMFLY. The HOMFLY polynomial is also a quantum invariant. The name HOMFLY combines the initials of its co-discoverers: Jim...
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    allow signals to be transmitted),[citation needed] the quantum vacuum state is Lorentz-invariant (although not manifestly in the above), whereas the classical...
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  • a topological quantum field theory (or topological field theory or TQFT) is a quantum field theory that computes topological invariants. While TQFTs were...
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  • manifold. The GW invariants may be packaged as a homology or cohomology class in an appropriate space, or as the deformed cup product of quantum cohomology...
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    Gauge theory (redirect from Gauge-invariant)
    smooth families of operations (Lie groups). Formally, the Lagrangian is invariant under these transformations. The term "gauge" refers to any specific mathematical...
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  • transitions, so that the quantum number is an adiabatic invariant. The old quantum theory was formulated by equating the quantum number of a system with...
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  • field of quantum topology, the Reshetikhin–Turaev invariants (RT-invariants) are a family of quantum invariants of framed links. Such invariants of framed...
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  • In quantum information science, the concurrence is a state invariant involving qubits. The concurrence is an entanglement monotone (a way of measuring...
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    1080/0950034021000011536. Hardy, Lucien (1992). "Quantum mechanics, local realistic theories, and Lorentz-invariant realistic theories". Physical Review Letters...
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    physical laws be invariant under Lorentz transformations. Two difficulties remained. Observationally, the Schrödinger equation underlying quantum mechanics could...
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  • Maxim Kontsevich. The Kontsevich invariant is a universal quantum invariant in the sense that any quantum invariant may be recovered by substituting the...
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    at the quantum level and it simultaneously looks for states that are gauge invariant because C ^ I {\displaystyle {\hat {C}}_{I}} is the quantum generator...
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  • topological considerations. Most commonly, topological quantum numbers are topological invariants associated with topological defects or soliton-type solutions...
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  • in fractional quantum Hall effect states. In mathematics, it has been used to calculate knot invariants and three-manifold invariants such as the Jones...
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  • can refer to a relativistically invariant classical or quantum theory of scalar fields. A scalar field is invariant under any Lorentz transformation...
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  • In quantum computing, a quantum algorithm is an algorithm that runs on a realistic model of quantum computation, the most commonly used model being the...
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  • knot theory, the volume conjecture is an open problem that relates quantum invariants of knots to the hyperbolic geometry of their complements. Let O denote...
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  • Permutationally invariant quantum state tomography (PI quantum state tomography) is a method for the partial determination of the state of a quantum system consisting...
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    The invariant mass, rest mass, intrinsic mass, proper mass, or in the case of bound systems simply mass, is the portion of the total mass of an object...
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  • mathematics, a topological property or topological invariant is a property of a topological space that is invariant under homeomorphisms. Alternatively, a topological...
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  • Jones polynomial (category Knot invariants)
    S2CID 27676682. Ohtsuki, Quantum Invariants: A Study of Knots, 3-manifolds, and Their Sets Witten, Edward (1989). "Quantum Field Theory and the Jones...
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  • In quantum mechanics, the total angular momentum quantum number parametrises the total angular momentum of a given particle, by combining its orbital...
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    mechanics and quantum field theory. A plethora of knot invariants have been invented since then, utilizing sophisticated tools such as quantum groups and...
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  • characteristic length scale. In quantum field theory, scale invariance has an interpretation in terms of particle physics. In a scale-invariant theory, the strength...
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    dynamics of the quarks and gluons are defined by the quantum chromodynamics Lagrangian. The gauge invariant QCD Lagrangian is L Q C D = ψ ¯ i ( i γ μ ( D μ...
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    The invariant set postulate concerns the possible relationship between fractal geometry and quantum mechanics and in particular the hypothesis that the...
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  • related to quantum entanglement. Topological quantum field theory Reshetikhin–Turaev invariant Kauffman, Louis H.; Baadhio, Randy A. (1993). Quantum Topology...
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  • In physics, relativistic quantum mechanics (RQM) is any Poincaré-covariant formulation of quantum mechanics (QM). This theory is applicable to massive...
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    Symmetry breaking (category Quantum field theory)
    Lagrangian setting of quantum field theory (QFT), the Lagrangian L {\displaystyle L} is a functional of quantum fields which is invariant under the action...
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