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‘Check your ingredients’: A new blueprint for using Fermi’s ‘Golden Rule’
'Check your ingredients': A new blueprint for using Fermi's 'Golden Rule'
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Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi's Golden Rule. Named for 20th-century Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi (but actually discovered by British physicist Paul Dirac), the rule is a formula that connects what can be measured in an experiment—such as how fast atoms "jump" between energy states—to the microscopic properties of a quantum mechanical system. The formula is taught in every undergraduate quantum physics class.
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