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    Nathaniel David Mermin (/ˈmɜːrmɪn/; born 30 March 1935) is a solid-state physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner...
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  • and statistical mechanics, the Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner theorem or Mermin–Wagner theorem (also known as Mermin–Wagner–Berezinskii theorem or Coleman theorem)...
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  • colloquial name Ashcroft and Mermin, is an introductory condensed matter physics textbook written by Neil Ashcroft and N. David Mermin. Published in 1976 by...
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  • exist at a far broader range of temperatures. The boojum was named by N. David Mermin of Cornell University in 1976. He was inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem...
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    Zeilinger in 1989, and the three-particle version was introduced by N. David Mermin in 1990. Extremely non-classical properties of the state have been observed...
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  • Zeilinger presented a four-particle thought experiment in 1990, which David Mermin then simplified to use only three particles. In this thought experiment...
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    Bennett, Gilles Brassard and N. David Mermin in 1992. It is named after the trio's surnames as (Bennett, Brassard and Mermin, BBM92). It uses decoy state...
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  • In physics, Mermin's device or Mermin's machine is a thought experiment intended to illustrate the non-classical features of nature without making a direct...
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    Light-Travel Time and Distance by the Hayden Planetarium Accessed October 2010. David Mermin (2009). It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity. Princeton...
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  • pilot-wave interpretation of David Bohm and the many-worlds interpretation of Hugh Everett III. The physicist N. David Mermin once quipped, "New interpretations...
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  • probably still the most widely held attitude about quantum mechanics. N. David Mermin coined the phrase "Shut up and calculate!" to summarize Copenhagen-type...
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    doi:10.1103/physrevlett.110.063902. PMID 23432243. S2CID 35907279. David Mermin, N. (March 5, 2000). "209: Notes on Special Relativity" (PDF). An example...
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  • {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin, Solid State Physics (Harcourt: Orlando, 1976). Bragg W (1913). "The...
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    associated with Fuchs and Schack and has more recently been adopted by David Mermin. QBism draws from the fields of quantum information and Bayesian probability...
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    to summarize Bohr's philosophy in a reminiscence after his death. N. David Mermin recalled Victor Weisskopf declaring that Bohr wouldn't have said anything...
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  • apply such methods to the study of science. Solid-state physicist N. David Mermin understands the science wars as a series of exchanges between scientists...
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    "pathologists". Landau ranked himself as a 2.5 but later promoted to a 2. N. David Mermin, writing about Landau, referred to the scale, and ranked himself in the...
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  • correlations was introduced by P.K. Aravind based on a series of papers by N. David Mermin and Asher Peres and Adán Cabello that developed simplifying demonstrations...
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  • concept that cannot be extended to global hyperplanes. Furthermore, N. David Mermin states: That no inherent meaning can be assigned to the simultaneity...
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  • typically also generalized to higher dimensions). Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin, Solid State Physics (Harcourt: New York, 1976). H., Simon, Steven (2020)...
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  • Solid State Physics. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0124457508. Neil Ashcroft, David Mermin (1976). Solid State Physics. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 978-0-03-083993-1...
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    trigonometry, and bra–ket notation can be passed over on a first reading. N. David Mermin, 1990, "Spooky actions at a distance: mysteries of the QT" in his Boojums...
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  • doi:10.1002/pssb.201340126. S2CID 122917133. Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin, Solid State Physics (Harcourt: Orlando, 1976). Charles Kittel, Introduction...
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    Entanglement "Spooky Actions at a Distance?": Oppenheimer Lecture, Prof. David Mermin (Cornell University) Univ. California, Berkeley, 2008. Non-mathematical...
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  • Recommendations concerning Units Archived 2007-02-16 at the Wayback Machine David Mermin suggested one light-nanosecond might be called a phoot at page 22 of...
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  • subsequently (together with Abner Shimony (GHSZ), upon a suggestion by David Mermin) applied their arguments to certain measurements involving three observers...
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  • computation, Cornell University, Physics 481–681, CS 483; Spring, 2006 by N. David Mermin. Last revised 2006-03-28, 30 page PDF document. Lavor, C.; Manssur, L...
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    Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969) is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and...
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    boosts and Minkowski diagrams" American Journal of Physics 43:1013,4. N. David Mermin (1968) Space and Time in Special Relativity, Chapter 17 Minkowski diagrams:...
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    42.7345G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.42.7345. PMID 9994874. Neil Ashcroft; David Mermin (1976). Solid State Physics. Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning. ISBN 0-03-083993-9...
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