Equation 52 · Part 1 · Every Crystal Has Its Own Speed of Light
Symbol α
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α is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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…bound says a finite-velocity linear cone is not guaranteed and faster-than-linear growth is required instead, and the propagation outright violates the nearest-neighbour bound = 12e once drops below 1 [ 4 ] . Read against a naive short-range picture, the ion chain is unambiguously non-local. The second verdict tempers the first: the three competing long-range thresholds theory offers — a worst-case bound, a typical-state bound, and a free-particle bound — all sit above…
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