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    Physics Grad School: How Big a Deal Is Proceedings Paper?

    hey physics grad school gurus, i am an undergraduate senior applying to physics graduate school for next fall. working with one of my advisors we published a proceedings paper for the 2007 SPIE noise and fluctations conference this year. ( http://spie.org/x6628.xml ) how different is...
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    How Is the Ground State Energy of Two Interacting Ions Calculated?

    a bit of explanation hi gokul, this problem was not assigned to me ( or anyone else ) for homework. it is a problem from a practice physics GRE from the 90's where the answers were distributed by ETS. the distributed packet is here: ( http://phys.columbia.edu/~hbar/Physics-GRE.pdf )...
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    How Is the Ground State Energy of Two Interacting Ions Calculated?

    Quantum Mechanics Problem. Help! Hey gang, This is a physicsGRE problem ( GR9677 question #77 ) that I have yet to see anyone answer well. Please let me know if I'm not being clear. Here goes: Question: "Two ions, 1 and 2, at fixed separation, with spin angular momentum operators...