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dandragona
2y ago
I'm still new to learning about these things, but is the viewpoint that a particle is a field excitation sort of the thing about starting with a lattice in the ground state with a field defined on the points of the lattice, then some e
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dandragona
2y ago
This captures the mathematical definition too which is just that an element x is idempotent if x applied to itself gives you back x. I.e, what you said that the function applied many times produces no change to the system.