CEA Paris-Saclay Updated 2025-07-16
Centerpiece of the CEA since the beginning of the French nuclear weapons program, headquarters since 2006.
As of 2023 the place was blurred on Google Maps satellite view, no wonder.
Clock Updated 2025-07-16
Stationary action principle Updated 2025-07-16
As mentioned on the Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stationary_Action_Principle&oldid=1020413171, "principle of least action" is not accurate since it could not necessarily be a minima, we could just be in a saddle-point.
Change of basis matrix Updated 2025-07-16
The change of basis matrix is the matrix that allows us to express the new basis in an old basis:
Mnemonic is as follows: consider we have an initial basis . Now, we define the new basis in terms of the old basis, e.g.:
which can be written in matrix form as:
and so if we set:
we have:
The usual question then is: given a vector in the new basis, how do we represent it in the old basis?
The answer is that we simply have to calculate the matrix inverse of :
That is the matrix inverse.
Divergence Updated 2025-07-16
Takes a vector field as input and produces a scalar field.
Mnemonic: it gives out the amount of fluid that is going in or out of a given volume per unit of time.
Therefore, if you take a cubic volume:
  • the input has to be the 6 flows across each face, therefore 3 derivatives
  • the output is the variation of the quantity of fluid, and therefore a scalar
Hydrogen cyanide Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1.
Ball-and-stick model of hydrogen cyanide
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Non Abelian anyon Updated 2025-07-16
Exotic and hard to find experimentally.
Video 1.
Topological quantum computation by Jason Alicea (2021)
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