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    Nathaniel David Mermin (/ˈmɜːrmɪn/; born 30 March 1935) is a solid-state physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner...
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  • and statistical mechanics, the Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner theorem or Mermin–Wagner theorem (also known as Mermin–Wagner–Berezinskii theorem or Coleman theorem)...
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  • colloquial name Ashcroft and Mermin, is an introductory condensed matter physics textbook written by Neil Ashcroft and N. David Mermin. Published in 1976 by...
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    Bennett, Gilles Brassard and N. David Mermin in 1992. It is named after the trio's surnames as (Bennett, Brassard and Mermin, BBM92). It uses decoy state...
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  • exist at a far broader range of temperatures. The boojum was named by N. David Mermin of Cornell University in 1976. He was inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem...
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    Zeilinger in 1989, and the three-particle version was introduced by N. David Mermin in 1990. Extremely non-classical properties of the state have been observed...
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  • Zeilinger presented a four-particle thought experiment in 1990, which David Mermin then simplified to use only three particles. In this thought experiment...
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    Light-Travel Time and Distance by the Hayden Planetarium Accessed October 2010. David Mermin (2009). It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity. Princeton...
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  • In physics, Mermin's device or Mermin's machine is a thought experiment intended to illustrate the non-classical features of nature without making a direct...
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  • pilot-wave interpretation of David Bohm and the many-worlds interpretation of Hugh Everett III. The physicist N. David Mermin once quipped, "New interpretations...
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