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Many Particle Systems

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So far we have discussed single particles, or systems of two particles, such as the two particle model of the hydrogen atom in 7 and the properties of spin in 8.

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Bongaarts, P. (2015). Many Particle Systems. In: Quantum Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09561-5_9

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