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 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Nebraska | 85 | -5 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | UTD B | 85 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Guelph B | 90 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Toronto Metropolitan | 91 | -5 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | City St George's A | 91 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF B | 107 | -5 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 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 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley E | 115 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Guelph A | 115 | -5 |
| Justin Qian | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | FIU | 117 | 0 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Chicago B | 117 | 0 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Chicago D | 117 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Michigan C | 117 | 0 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Illinois B | 117 | 0 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | UIC | 117 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester B | 117 | 0 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota C | 117 | 0 |
| Simon Bennett | Macalester A | St. Thomas | 117 | 0 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 117 | 0 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | Tulsa | 117 | 0 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Iowa | 117 | 0 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Ohio | 117 | 0 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Northwestern A | 117 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 117 | 0 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Alberta B | 117 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern C | 117 | 0 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 117 | 10 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech C | 117 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Alabama A | 117 | 0 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 117 | 10 |
| Gabrielle Smith | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 117 | 0 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 117 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt B | 117 | 0 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Sheffield A | 117 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 117 | 10 |
| Youyou Yu | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 117 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield B | Imperial A | 117 | 10 |