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Pauli matrices

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Also known as Pauli matrix

matrices important in quantum mechanics and the study of spin

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Named after
Wolfgang Pauli
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Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958), c. 1924. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945, nominated by Albert Einstein, for the Pauli exclusion principle. In mathematical physics and mathematics, the Pauli matrices are a set of three

2 × 2

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