Wick rotation
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title:
Wick rotation
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In physics, Wick rotation, named after Italian physicist Gian Carlo Wick, is a method of finding a solution to a mathematical problem in Minkowski space from a solution to a related problem in Euclidean space by means of a transformation that substitutes an imaginary-number variable for a real-number variable. Wick rotations are useful because of an analogy between two important but seemingly distinct fields of physics: statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics. In this analogy, inverse temper
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Mathematical trick using imaginary numbers to simplify certain formulas in physics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick_rotation
date created:
2003-08-10T23:27:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T13:51:15Z
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