Wave-Particle Duality

Wave-Particle Duality

Author: Franco Selleri

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1461533325

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This volume tries to continue a tradition of reviews of the contemporary research on the foundations of modern physics begun by the volume on the Einstein Podolsky-Rosen paradox that appeared a few years ago. (I) Its publication coin cides with the hundredth anniversary of de Broglie's birth (1892), a very welcome superposition, given the lasting influence of the Einstein-de Broglie conception of wave-particle duality. The present book, however, contains papers based on a broad spectrum of basic ideas, some even opposite to those that Einstein and de Broglie would have liked. The order of the contributions in this book is alphabetical by first author's name. It is important here to stress the presence of three reviews of fundamental experimental data, by Hasselbach (electron interferometry), Rauch (neutron interferometry), and Tonomura (Aharonov-Bohm effect). Hasselbach reviews several interesting experiments performed in 1Ubingen with the electron biprism interferometer. Wave-particle duality is brought out in striking ways, e. g., in the buildup of an interference pattern out of single events. The Sagnac effect for electrons is also discussed. The chapter by Rauch presents interesting results on wave-particle duality for neutrons. Of particular interest are the differences between stochastic and deterministic absorption in the neutron interferometer, and the concrete evidence for the quantum-mechanical 41T-symmetry of spinors. In the short chapter by Tonomura, conclusive evidence for the reality of the Aharonov Bohm effect is reviewed, collected in experiments based on advanced technologies of electron holography and microlithography.


Compendium of Quantum Physics

Compendium of Quantum Physics

Author: Daniel Greenberger

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-07-25

Total Pages: 901

ISBN-13: 3540706267

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With contributions by leading quantum physicists, philosophers and historians, this comprehensive A-to-Z of quantum physics provides a lucid understanding of key concepts of quantum theory and experiment. It covers technical and interpretational aspects alike, and includes both traditional and new concepts, making it an indispensable resource for concise, up-to-date information about the many facets of quantum physics.


Quantum Paradoxes

Quantum Paradoxes

Author: Yakir Aharonov

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-09-26

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 3527619127

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A Guide through the Mysteries of Quantum Physics! Yakir Aharonov is one of the pioneers in measuring theory, the nature of quantum correlations, superselection rules, and geometric phases and has been awarded numerous scientific honors. The author has contributed monumental concepts to theoretical physics, especially the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the Aharonov-Casher effect. Together with Daniel Rohrlich, Israel, he has written a pioneering work on the remaining mysteries of quantum mechanics. From the perspective of a preeminent researcher in the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics, the text combines mathematical rigor with penetrating and concise language. More than 200 exercises introduce readers to the concepts and implications of quantum mechanics that have arisen from the experimental results of the recent two decades. With students as well as researchers in mind, the authors give an insight into that part of the field, which led Feynman to declare that "nobody understands quantum mechanics". * Free solutions manual available for lecturers at www.wiley-vch.de/supplements/


Emergent Quantum Mechanics

Emergent Quantum Mechanics

Author: Jan Walleczek

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 3038976164

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Emergent quantum mechanics explores the possibility of an ontology for quantum mechanics. The resurgence of interest in "deeper-level" theories for quantum phenomena challenges the standard, textbook interpretation. The book presents expert views that critically evaluate the significance—for 21st century physics—of ontological quantum mechanics, an approach that David Bohm helped pioneer. The possibility of a deterministic quantum theory was first introduced with the original de Broglie-Bohm theory, which has also been developed as Bohmian mechanics. The wide range of perspectives that were contributed to this book on the occasion of David Bohm’s centennial celebration provide ample evidence for the physical consistency of ontological quantum mechanics. The book addresses deeper-level questions such as the following: Is reality intrinsically random or fundamentally interconnected? Is the universe local or nonlocal? Might a radically new conception of reality include a form of quantum causality or quantum ontology? What is the role of the experimenter agent? As the book demonstrates, the advancement of ‘quantum ontology’—as a scientific concept—marks a clear break with classical reality. The search for quantum reality entails unconventional causal structures and non-classical ontology, which can be fully consistent with the known record of quantum observations in the laboratory.


Inequivalent Representations of Canonical Commutation and Anti-Commutation Relations

Inequivalent Representations of Canonical Commutation and Anti-Commutation Relations

Author: Asao Arai

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 9811521808

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Canonical commutation relations (CCR) and canonical anti-commutation relations (CAR) are basic principles in quantum physics including both quantum mechanics with finite degrees of freedom and quantum field theory. From a structural viewpoint, quantum physics can be primarily understood as Hilbert space representations of CCR or CAR. There are many interesting physical phenomena which can be more clearly understood from a representation–theoretical viewpoint with CCR or CAR. This book provides an introduction to representation theories of CCR and CAR in view of quantum physics. Particular emphases are put on the importance of inequivalent representations of CCR or CAR, which may be related to characteristic physical phenomena. The topics presented include general theories of representations of CCR and CAR with finite and infinite degrees of freedom, the Aharonov–Bohm effect, time operators, quantum field theories based on Fock spaces, Bogoliubov transformations, and relations of infinite renormalizations with inequivalent representations of CCR. This book can be used as a text for an advanced topics course in mathematical physics or mathematics.


Biophysics Of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach

Biophysics Of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach

Author: Roman R Poznanski

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2016-08-25

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 9814644277

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The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and 'something it is like to be' remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world. While various scientists and philosophers approach the problem from their own unique perspectives and in the terms of their own respective fields, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach attempts a consilience across disparate disciplines to explain how it is possible that an objective brain produces subjective experience.This volume unites the crème de la crème of physicists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists in the attempt to understand consciousness through a foundational approach encompassing ontological, evolutionary, neurobiological, and Freudian interpretations with the focus on conscious phenomena occurring in the brain. By integrating the perspectives of these diverse disciplines with the latest research and theories on the biophysics of the brain, the book tries to explain how consciousness can be an adaptive and causal element in the natural world.


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 Arrangements

Quantum Arrangements

Author: Gregg Jaeger

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-10-09

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 3030773671

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This book presents a collection of novel contributions and reviews by renowned researchers in the foundations of quantum physics, quantum optics, and neutron physics. It is published in honor of Michael Horne, whose exceptionally clear and groundbreaking work in the foundations of quantum mechanics and interferometry, both of photons and of neutrons, has provided penetrating insight into the implications of modern physics for our understanding of the physical world. He is perhaps best known for the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality. This collection includes an oral history of Michael Horne's contributions to the foundations of physics and his connections to other eminent figures in the history of the subject, among them Clifford Shull and Abner Shimony.


Quaternionic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Fields

Quaternionic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Fields

Author: Stephen L. Adler

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 019506643X

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It has been known since the 1930s that quantum mechanics can be formulated in quaternionic as well as complex Hilbert space. But systematic work on the quaternionic extension of standard quantum mechanics has scarcely begun. Authored by a world-renowned theoretical physicist, this booksignals a major conceptual advance and gives a detailed development and exposition of quaternionic quantum mechanics for the purpose of determining whether quaternionic Hilbert space is the appropriate arena for the long sought-after unification of the standard model forces with gravitation.Significant results from earlier literature, together with many new results obtained by the author, are integrated to give a coherent picture of the subject. The book also provides an introduction to the problem of formulating quantum field theories in quaternionic Hilbert space. The book concludeswith a chapter devoted to discussions on where quaternionic quantum mechanics may fit into the physics of unification, experimental and measurement theory issues, and the many open questions that still challenge the field. This well-written treatise is a very significant contribution to theoreticalphysics. It will be eagerly read by a wide range of physicists.