On a Seldom Oversight in Fermi's Calculations: Seventy Years Later
History and Philosophy of Physics
2025-04-08 v5
Abstract
We discuss an unfortunate mistake, for a Dirac free particle, in the last Fermi lecture notes on quantum mechanics, in a course given at the University of Chicago in winter and spring of 1954. As is demonstrated, the correct result can be obtained by a simple matrix multiplication. An attempt to collect a relevant bibliography is made.
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@article{arxiv.2309.16676,
title = {On a Seldom Oversight in Fermi's Calculations: Seventy Years Later},
author = {Sergei K. Suslov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16676},
year = {2025}
}
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14 pages, 4 figures, 51 references