Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology

Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology

Author: Sachio Ishioka

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 981428212X

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This book is the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology (ISQM?TOKYO'08) which aims to link the recent advances in technology with fundamental problems in quantum mechanics. It also discusses fundamental problems and issues in quantum physics and places a special emphasis on ?Quantum Coherence and Decoherence?.The proceedings included a special lecture by Prof C N Yang, ?Pseudopotential Method in Cold Atom Research?, and 75 refereed papers covering the wide range of quantum physics: cold atoms and molecules; spin-Hall effect and anomalous Hall effect; magnetic domain wall dynamics and spin-related phenomena; Dirac fermions in condensed matter; quantum dot systems; entanglement and quantum information processing, qubit manipulations; mechanical properties of confined geometry; precise measurements; novel properties of nano-systems; and fundamental problems in quantum physics.The book will not only serve as a good reference for experts on quantum coherence and decoherence, but also as an introduction for newcomers to this field.


Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics In The Light Of New Technology: Isqm-tokyo '08 - Proceedings Of The 9th International Symposium

Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics In The Light Of New Technology: Isqm-tokyo '08 - Proceedings Of The 9th International Symposium

Author: Sachio Ishioka

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9814467030

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This book is the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology (ISQM—TOKYO'08) which aims to link the recent advances in technology with fundamental problems in quantum mechanics. It also discusses fundamental problems and issues in quantum physics and places a special emphasis on “Quantum Coherence and Decoherence”.The proceedings included a special lecture by Prof C N Yang, “Pseudopotential Method in Cold Atom Research”, and 75 refereed papers covering the wide range of quantum physics: cold atoms and molecules; spin-Hall effect and anomalous Hall effect; magnetic domain wall dynamics and spin-related phenomena; Dirac fermions in condensed matter; quantum dot systems; entanglement and quantum information processing, qubit manipulations; mechanical properties of confined geometry; precise measurements; novel properties of nano-systems; and fundamental problems in quantum physics.The book will not only serve as a good reference for experts on quantum coherence and decoherence, but also as an introduction for newcomers to this field.


Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations: Volume 1: Unriddling the Quantum Enigma

Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations: Volume 1: Unriddling the Quantum Enigma

Author: Mohammad H. Tamdgidi

Publisher: Ahead Publishing House (imprint: Okcir Press)

Published: 2020-01-20

Total Pages: 1001

ISBN-13: 164098013X

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In this major new study in the sociology of scientific knowledge, social theorist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi reports having unriddled the so-called ‘quantum enigma.’ This book opens the lid of the Schrödinger’s Cat box of the ‘quantum enigma’ after decades and finds something both odd and familiar: Not only the cat is both alive and dead, it has morphed into an elephant in the room in whose interpretation Einstein, Bohr, Bohm, and others were each both right and wrong because the enigma has acquired both localized and spread-out features whose unriddling requires both physics and sociology amid both transdisciplinary and transcultural contexts. The book offers, in a transdisciplinary and transcultural sociology of self-knowledge framework, a relativistic interpretation to advance a liberating quantum sociology. Deeper methodological grounding to further advance the sociological imagination requires investigating whether and how relativistic and quantum scientific revolutions can induce a liberating reinvention of sociology in favor of creative research and a just global society. This, however, necessarily leads us to confront an elephant in the room, the ‘quantum enigma.’ In Unriddling the Quantum Enigma, the first volume of the series commonly titled Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian toward Quantum Imaginations, sociologist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi argues that unriddling the ‘quantum enigma’ depends on whether and how we succeed in dehabituating ourselves in favor of unified relativistic and quantum visions from the historically and ideologically inherited, classical Newtonian modes of imagining reality that have subconsciously persisted in the ways we have gone about posing and interpreting (or not) the enigma itself for more than a century. Once this veil is lifted and the enigma unriddled, he argues, it becomes possible to reinterpret the relativistic and quantum ways of imagining reality (including social reality) in terms of a unified, nonreductive, creative dialectic of part and whole that fosters quantum sociological imaginations, methods, theories, and practices favoring liberating and just social outcomes. The essays in this volume develop a set of relativistic interpretive solutions to the quantum enigma. Following a survey of relevant studies, and an introduction to the transdisciplinary and transcultural sociology of self-knowledge framing the study, overviews of Newtonianism, relativity and quantum scientific revolutions, the quantum enigma, and its main interpretations to date are offered. They are followed by a study of the notion of the “wave-particle duality of light” and the various experiments associated with the quantum enigma in order to arrive at a relativistic interpretation of the enigma, one that is shown to be capable of critically cohering other offered interpretations. The book concludes with a heuristic presentation of the ontology, epistemology, and methodology of what Tamdgidi calls the creative dialectics of reality. The volume essays involve critical, comparative/integrative reflections on the relevant works of founding and contemporary scientists and scholars in the field. This study is the first in the monograph series “Tayyebeh Series in East-West Research and Translation” of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (XIII, 2020), published by OKCIR: Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). OKCIR is dedicated to exploring, in a simultaneously world-historical and self-reflective framework, the human search for a just global society. It aims to develop new conceptual (methodological, theoretical, historical), practical, pedagogical, inspirational and disseminative structures of knowledge whereby the individual can radically understand and determine how world-history and her/his selves constitute one another. Reviews “Mohammad H. Tamdgidi’s Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations, Volume 1, Unriddling the Quantum Enigma hits the proverbial nail on the head of an ongoing problem not only in sociology but also much social science—namely, many practitioners’ allegiance, consciously or otherwise, to persisting conceptions of ‘science’ that get in the way of scientific and other forms of theoretical advancement. Newtonianism has achieved the status of an idol and its methodology a fetish, the consequence of which is an ongoing failure to think through important problems of uncertainty, indeterminacy, multivariation, multidisciplinarity, and false dilemmas of individual agency versus structure, among many others. Tamdgidi has done great service to social thought by bringing to the fore this problem of disciplinary decadence and offering, in effect, a call for its teleological suspension—thinking beyond disciplinarity—through drawing upon and communicating with the resources of quantum theory not as a fetish but instead as an opening for other possibilities of social, including human, understanding. The implications are far-reaching as they offer, as the main title attests, liberating sociology from persistent epistemic shackles and thus many disciplines and fields connected to things ‘social.’ This is exciting work. A triumph! The reader is left with enthusiasm for the second volume and theorists of many kinds with proverbial work to be done.” — Professor Lewis R. Gordon, Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies and author of Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times (Routledge/Paradigm, 2006), and Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (Routledge, forthcoming 2020) "Social sciences are still using metatheoretical models of science based on 19th century newtonian concepts of "time and space". Mohammad H. Tamdgidi has produced a 'tour de force' in social theory leaving behind the old newtonian worldview that still informs the social sciences towards a 21st century non-dualistic, non-reductionist, transcultural, transdisciplinary, post-Einsteinian quantum concept of TimeSpace. Tamdgidi goes beyond previous efforts done by titans of social theory such as Immanuel Wallerstein and Kyriakos Kontopoulos. This book is a quantum leap in the social sciences at large. Tamdgidi decolonizes the social sciences away from its Eurocentric colonial foundations bringing it closer not only to contemporary natural sciences but also to its convergence with the old Eastern philosophical and mystical worldviews. This book is a masterpiece in social theory for a 21st century decolonial social science. A must read!" — Professor Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California at Berkeley​​​​​​​ "Tamdgidi’s Liberating Sociology succeeds in adding physical structures to the breadth of the world-changing vision of C. Wright Mills, the man who mentored me at Columbia. Relativity theory and quantum mechanics can help us to understand the human universe no less than the physical universe. Just as my Creating Life Before Death challenges bureaucracy’s conformist orientation, so does Liberating Sociology“liberate the infinite possibilities inherent in us.” Given our isolation in the Coronavirus era, we have time to follow Tamdgidi in his journey into the depth of inner space, where few men have gone before. It is there that we can gain emotional strength, just as Churchill, Roosevelt and Mandela empowered themselves. That personal development was needed to address not only their own personal problems, but also the mammoth problems of their societies. We must learn to do the same." — Bernard Phillips, Emeritus Sociology Professor, Boston University


In Memory of Akira Tonomura

In Memory of Akira Tonomura

Author: K. Fujikawa

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9814472905

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This memorial volume in honor of Dr Akira Tonomura is to commemorate his enormous contributions to fundamental physics in addition to the basic technology of electron microscopy. Dr Tonomura passed away on May 2, 2012 at the age of 70. He was Fellow of Hitachi, Ltd., Group Director of Single Quantum Dynamics Research Group of RIKEN, Principal Investigator of the FIRST Tonomura Project, and Professor of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. The book consists of: 1) contributions from distinguished physicists, who participated in the OC Tonomura FIRST International Symposium on Electron Microscopy and Gauge FieldsOCO planned by Tonomura himself and held in Tokyo on May 9OCo10, 2012, and 2) reprints of key papers by Tonomura and his team. Invited speakers at this Symposium include Chen Ning Yang and other distinguished physicists such as Yakir Aharonov, Gordon Baym, Christian Colliex, Anthony J Leggett, Naoto Nagaosa, Nobuyuki Osakabe and Masahito Ueda. This OC memorialOCO Symposium was originally planned to commemorate the start of the Japanese-government-sponsored FIRST Tonomura Project to construct the 1.2 MV holography electron microscope capable of observing quantum phenomena in the microscopic world. In addition, the book includes contributions from participants of the past ISQM-Tokyo symposia held at Hitachi and from Tonomura''s longtime friends, including Michael Berry, Jerome Friedman, Hidetoshi Fukuyama, Joseph Imry, Yoshinori Tokura, Jaw-Shen Tsai, and Anton Zeilinger. The co-editors are Kazuo Fujikawa, Tonomura''s longtime friend, and Yoshimasa A Ono who is Tonomura''s associate at Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory and now in the FIRST Tonomura Project. Contents: My Dream of Ultimate Holography Electron Microscope (Akira Tonomura); Biography of Akira Tonomura (April 1942 OCo May 2012) (Nobuyuki Osakabe); Tonomura FIRST International Symposium on OC Electron Microscopy and Gauge FieldsOCO (Yoshimasa A Ono); Recollections of Akira Tonomura: Thank You and Farewell to Tonomura-kun (Hidetoshi Fukuyama); Remembering Akira Tonomura (Michael Berry); Akira Tonomura: An Experimental Visionary (Anton Zeilinger); Dr. Akira Tonomura: Master of Experimental Physics (Kazuo Fujikawa); Gauge Theory and Aharonov-Bohm Effect: Topology and Gauge Theory in Physics (Chen Ning Yang); On the Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Why Heisenberg Captures Nonlocality Better Than SchrAdinger (Yakir Aharonov); How the Test of Aharonov-Bohm Effect was Initiated at Hitachi Laboratory (Nobuyuki Osakabe); Some Reflections Concerning Geometrical Phases (Anthony J Leggett and Yiruo Lin); Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm Interferometers: Decoherence and Thermoelectric Transport (Ora Entin-Wohlman, Amnon Aharony and Yoseph Imry); Spin Textures and Gauge Fields in Frustrated Magnets (Naoto Nagaosa and Yoshinori Tokura); Gauge Theory and Artificial Spin Ices: Imaging Emergent Monopoles with Electron Microscopy (Shawn D Pollard and Yimei Zhu); Do Dispersionless Forces Exist? (Herman Batelaan and Scot McGregor); Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Geometric Phases OCo Exact and Approximate Topology (Kazuo Fujikawa); A Brief Overview and Topological Aspects of Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates (Masahito Ueda); Application of Electron Microscopy to Quantum Mechanics and Materials Sciences: Mapping Electric Fields with Inelastic Electrons in a Transmission Electron Microscope (Christian Colliex); OC The Picture is My LifeOCO (Shuji Hasegawa); Direct Observation of Electronically Phase-Separated Charge Density Waves in Lu 2 Ir 3 Si 5 by Transmission Electron Microscopy (Cheng-Hsuan Chen); Basic Discoveries in Electromagnetic Field Visualization (Daisuke Shindo); Nanomagnetism Visualized by Electron Holography (Hyun Soon Park); Quantum Physics: Probing the Proton with Electron Microscopy (Jerome I Friedman); Hanbury BrownOCoTwiss Interferometry with Electrons: Coulomb vs. Quantum Statistics (Gordon Baym and Kan Shen); Vortex Molecules in Thin Films of Layered Superconductors (Alexander I Buzdin); Coherent Quantum Phase Slip (Jaw-Shen Tsai); Coherency of Spin Precession in Metallic Lateral Spin Valves (YoshiChika Otani, Hiroshi Idzuchi and Yasuhiro Fukuma); Transverse Relativistic Effects in Paraxial Wave Interference (Konstantin Y Bliokh, Yana V Izdebskaya and Franco Nori). Readership: Graduate students and researchers in physics, materials science and related fields."


Quantum Causality

Quantum Causality

Author: Peter J. Riggs

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-06-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9048124034

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There is no sharp dividing line between the foundations of physics and philosophy of physics. This is especially true for quantum mechanics. The debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics has raged in both the scientific and philosophical communities since the 1920s and continues to this day. (We shall understand the unqualified term ‘quantum mechanics’ to mean the mathematical formalism, i. e. laws and rules by which empirical predictions and theoretical advances are made. ) There is a popular rendering of quantum mechanics which has been publicly endorsed by some well known physicists which says that quantum mechanics is not only 1 more weird than we imagine but is weirder than we can imagine. Although it is readily granted that quantum mechanics has produced some strange and counter-intuitive results, the case will be presented in this book that quantum mechanics is not as weird as we might have been led to believe! The prevailing theory of quantum mechanics is called Orthodox Quantum Theory (also known as the Copenhagen Interpretation). Orthodox Quantum Theory endows a special status on measurement processes by requiring an intervention of an observer or an observer’s proxy (e. g. a measuring apparatus). The placement of the observer (or proxy) is somewhat arbitrary which introduces a degree of subjectivity. Orthodox Quantum Theory only predicts probabilities for measured values of physical quantities. It is essentially an instrumental theory, i. e.


Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology

Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology

Author: K. Fujikawa

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 9812776710

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This book discusses fundamental problems in quantum physics, with emphasis on quantum coherence and decoherence. Papers covering the wide range of quantum physics are included: atom optics, quantum optics, quantum computing, quantum information, cryptography, macroscopic quantum phenomena, mesoscopic physics, physics of precise measurements, and fundamental problems in quantum physics. The book will serve not only as a good introduction to quantum coherence and decoherence for newcomers in this field, but also as a reference for experts. Contents: Quantum Computing: Decoherence and Dephasing in Spin-Based Solid State Quantum Computers (S Das Sarma et al.); Quantum-State Manipulations in a Cooper-Pair Box (Y Nakamura et al.); Quantum State Engineering and Josephson Junctions: Charge and Flux Detectors (Yu Makhlin et al.); Quantum Information, Quantum Teleportation, and Entanglement: High-Fidelity Experimental Quantum Teleportation and Entanglement Swapping (A Zeilinger et al.); Experimental Realization of Continuous-Variable Teleportation (A Furusawa); Quantum Optics: Entanglement Manipulation with Atoms and Photons in a Cavity (S Haroche); Generation of Single Photons and Entangled Photon Pairs from a Quantum Dot (Y Yamamoto et al.); Twin Photon Beams for Single Photon Generation (S Takeuchi); Bose-Einstein Condensation and Atom Interferometry: Quantized Vortices in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (J Dalibard et al.); Vortex Excitations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (S Inouye et al.); Mesoscopic Magnets: Environmental Effects on Quantum Reversal of Mesoscopic Spins (B Barbara et al.); Resistance of Geometrically Confined Magnetic Domain Wall (T Ono et al.); Single Electronics and Superconductors: A Single-Photon Detector in the Far-Infrared Range (O Astafiev et al.); Nanoscale Physics and Atomics: Quantized Conductance of Gold Nanowire Studied by UHV-Electron Microscope with STM (K Takayanagi); Quantum Transport: Quantum Transport in Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in Ultra-Short Period Lateral Superlattices (Y Iye et al.); Enhanced Tunnel Magnetoresistance in Ferromagnetic Single Electron Transistor (R Matsuda et al.); Precise Measurements: Oscillation Phenomena in High Energy Physics: CP Violation in B-Meson Decays and Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation (K Nakamura); Dynamic Observation of Vortices in High-T c Superconductors (A Tonomura); Precision Optical Frequency Metrology Using Pulsed Lasers (Th Udem et al.); Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector in Japan (N Mio); Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics: Quantum Information Aspects of Black Hole (A Hosoya); and other papers. Readership: Undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in quantum physics, atomic physics and optics.


Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics In The Light Of New Technology: Selected Papers From The Proceedings Of The First Through Fourth International Symposia On Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics

Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics In The Light Of New Technology: Selected Papers From The Proceedings Of The First Through Fourth International Symposia On Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics

Author: Yoshimasa Murayama

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1997-01-03

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9814498289

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”I re-experience once again the stimulating atmosphere of each of the ISQMs: There were theoretical discussions in diverse frontier areas of physics as well as descriptions of beautiful new (or planned) experiments and technologies. From each of the Symposia I always came away with the exciting feeling of how wonderful physics is and how lucky it is to be a physicist in this era.”Chen Ning YangThis volume is selected from the First through Fourth International Symposia on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. The International Symposia on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology (ISQMs) provide a unique interdisciplinary forum where distinguished theorists and experimentalists of diverse fields of research gather to discuss basic problems in quantum mechanics in the light of new technology. This volume collects 51 papers selected from over 200 papers by many distinguished scientists. It includes articles by C N Yang, J A Wheeler, Y Nambu, L Esaki and M P A Fisher, to name just a few, and contains topics ranging from quantum measurements to quantum cosmology.


Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology

Author: Sachio Ishioka

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9814282138

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This book is the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology (ISQMOCoTOKYO''08) which aims to link the recent advances in technology with fundamental problems in quantum mechanics. It also discusses fundamental problems and issues in quantum physics and places a special emphasis on OC Quantum Coherence and DecoherenceOCO. The proceedings included a special lecture by Prof C N Yang, OC Pseudopotential Method in Cold Atom ResearchOCO, and 75 refereed papers covering the wide range of quantum physics: cold atoms and molecules; spin-Hall effect and anomalous Hall effect; magnetic domain wall dynamics and spin-related phenomena; Dirac fermions in condensed matter; quantum dot systems; entanglement and quantum information processing, qubit manipulations; mechanical properties of confined geometry; precise measurements; novel properties of nano-systems; and fundamental problems in quantum physics. The book will not only serve as a good reference for experts on quantum coherence and decoherence, but also as an introduction for newcomers to this field."


Quantum Interaction

Quantum Interaction

Author: Harald Atmanspacher

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-07

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 3319286757

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2015, held in Filzbach, Switzerland, in July 2015. The 20 papers together with 2 invited keynotes presented in this book were carefully selected from 27 submissions. Quantum Interaction has developed into an emerging interdisciplinary area of science combining research topics in mathematics, physics, psychology, economics, cognitive science, and computer science.