How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories | Quanta Magazine
Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles would behave — an insight that had far-reaching consequences.
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“Bethe ansatz methods show up in so many places, said Pedro Vieira (opens a new tab), a professor at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. “It seems like nature appreciates beautiful things.””
Posted on 2025-02-14T07:58:53+0000