Crash course in density matrices

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Hi everyone,

Jonathon Riddell here. Today we do a crash course of density matrices in quantum mechanics. This should be enough to get us started in statistical mechanics!

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Around the 7 minute mark my camera covers up a 4, but the density matrix is identical to the equation that appears at the 7m 45s mark!

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