Despite being named for Fermi, a “golden rule” first derived by this physicist predicts transitions due to perturbations. Both state vectors and observables have time dependence in a framework introduced by this physicist called the interaction picture. This physicist’s eponymous equation predicts free particles undergo rapid oscillatory motion called Zitterbewegung (“TSIT-ur-buh-VAY-goong”). The existence of a single magnetic monopole implies the quantization of electric charge according to this physicist’s quantization condition. This physicist “factored” the wave equation to find gamma matrices and spinors used in his namesake equation. The existence of negative energy solutions led this man to propose his namesake “sea” of electrons. For 10 points, what British physicist developed a namesake relativistic generalization of the Schrödinger equation? ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 52.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 17% | 73.50 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 11 | 64% | 0% | 45% | 75.86 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 79.00 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 40.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 70% | 0% | 40% | 66.14 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 60% | 89.50 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 68.00 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 25% | 92.60 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 38% | 98.60 |
| UK | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 90.78 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 12 | -5 |
| Mia Clark-Webb | Oxford B | Southampton B | 12 | 10 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | McGill C | 25 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 28 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 29 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 29 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Purdue A | 32 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 32 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Oxford A | 32 | -5 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | LSE A | 32 | -5 |
| Danny Han | Stanford C | Berkeley D | 35 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 35 | -5 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | USC | 36 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Toronto I | 36 | -5 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto D | 36 | 10 |
| Aarnav Vyas | Illinois B | Notre Dame D | 38 | -5 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Missouri A | 40 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 40 | -5 |
| Ryan Graham | Alberta B | UCO | 44 | -5 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 46 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas B | 48 | 10 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Toronto J | 49 | -5 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 56 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill A | 56 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Michigan A | 56 | 10 |
| Hiru Senehedheera | Manchester A | Durham B | 56 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Illinois C | 58 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Notre Dame C | 59 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Kentucky | 59 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Washington A | 61 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McMaster C | 62 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 66 | -5 |
| Roman Bassett | UF A | UF E | 66 | 10 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago C | Michigan B | 68 | 10 |
| Ross Killgo | Wisconsin | Iowa State | 68 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Bruin A | 77 | -5 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Bristol B | 78 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McMaster A | 84 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Louisville A | 84 | -5 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | UTD B | 85 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Nebraska | 85 | -5 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Guelph B | 90 | 10 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | City St George's A | 91 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Toronto Metropolitan | 91 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UCF B | 92 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Carleton | 92 | -5 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 94 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | McGill D | 96 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 107 | -5 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF B | 107 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 108 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Macalester A | 108 | -5 |
| Jakub Hel | UAB A | Alabama B | 110 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue C | 111 | -5 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Minnesota B | 111 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Southampton A | 112 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Guelph A | 115 | -5 |
| Justin Qian | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 115 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley E | 115 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Huntsville B | 116 | -5 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCLA C | 117 | 0 |
| Aarav Kakad | UCLA C | UCSB | 117 | 0 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | Claremont Pitzer | 117 | 0 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto H | 117 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McMaster B | 117 | 0 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Chicago B | 117 | 0 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Illinois B | 117 | 0 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Chicago D | 117 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Michigan C | 117 | 0 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | UIC | 117 | 0 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 117 | 0 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern C | 117 | 0 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Northwestern A | 117 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Ohio | 117 | 0 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 117 | 0 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | Tulsa | 117 | 0 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Iowa | 117 | 0 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | FIU | 117 | 0 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Alberta B | 117 | 10 |
| Gabrielle Smith | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 117 | 0 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 117 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 117 | 10 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech C | 117 | 0 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt B | 117 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Alabama A | 117 | 0 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 117 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield B | Imperial A | 117 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Sheffield A | 117 | 10 |
| Youyou Yu | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 117 | 10 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | Toronto B | 117 | 0 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Waterloo | 117 | 0 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Toronto K | 117 | 0 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Ottawa | 117 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western Ontario | 117 | 10 |
| Simon Bennett | Macalester A | St. Thomas | 117 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester B | 117 | 0 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota C | 117 | 0 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 117 | 10 |