Add some unicode particle aliases #1036
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Because I'd apparently rather play with unicode than make the increasingly wise life decision of going to bed, this pull request adds a few additional unicode particle aliases (e.g., we would be able to do
Particle("α")
for an alpha particle). This could be useful for code and examples that will be read much more frequently than they are written.At present a lot of the aliases are not documented. I wonder if it would be helpful to have an
aliases
attribute toParticle
that could list all of the valid aliases for the different particles. I've also been thinking aboutunicode_symbol
,mathml
, andlatex_str
attributes too for different representations, but that's not for this PR.