Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity
Author: Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-06-14
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521868341
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Quantum Effects in Biology
Author: Masoud Mohseni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08-07
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1107010802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the role of quantum mechanics in biology for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics, biology and chemistry.
The Quantum Hall Effect
Author: Richard E. Prange
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 146123350X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter a foreword by Klaus von Klitzing, the first chapters of this book discuss the prehistory and the theoretical basis as well as the implications of the discovery of the Quantum Hall effect on superconductivity, superfluidity, and metrology, including experimentation. The second half of this volume is concerned with the theory of and experiments on the many body problem posed by fractional effect. Specific unsolved problems are mentioned throughout the book and a summary is made in the final chapter. The quantum Hall effect was discovered on about the hundredth anniversary of Hall's original work, and the finding was announced in 1980 by von Klitzing, Dorda and Pepper. Klaus von KIitzing was awarded the 1985 Nobel prize in physics for this discovery.
Quantum Aspects of Life
Author: Derek Abbott
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 1848162537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the hotly debated question of whether quantum mechanics plays a non-trivial role in biology. In a timely way, it sets out a distinct quantum biology agenda. The burgeoning fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, quantum technology, and quantum information processing are now strongly converging. The acronym BINS, for Bio-Info-Nano-Systems, has been coined to describe the synergetic interface of these several disciplines. The living cell is an information replicating and processing system that is replete with naturally-evolved nanomachines, which at some level require a quantum mechanical description. As quantum engineering and nanotechnology meet, increasing use will be made of biological structures, or hybrids of biological and fabricated systems, for producing novel devices for information storage and processing and other tasks. An understanding of these systems at a quantum mechanical level will be indispensable.
The Quantum Hall Effect
Author: Daijiro Yoshioka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 3662050161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fractional quantum Hall effect has opened up a new paradigm in the study of strongly correlated electrons and it has been shown that new concepts, such as fractional statistics, anyon, chiral Luttinger liquid and composite particles, are realized in two-dimensional electron systems. This book explains the quantum Hall effects together with these new concepts starting from elementary quantum mechanics.
The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Author: Tapash Chakraborty
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 3642971016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe experimental discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at the end of 1981 by Tsui, Stormer and Gossard was absolutely unexpected since, at this time, no theoretical work existed that could predict new struc tures in the magnetotransport coefficients under conditions representing the extreme quantum limit. It is more than thirty years since investigations of bulk semiconductors in very strong magnetic fields were begun. Under these conditions, only the lowest Landau level is occupied and the theory predicted a monotonic variation of the resistivity with increasing magnetic field, depending sensitively on the scattering mechanism. However, the ex perimental data could not be analyzed accurately since magnetic freeze-out effects and the transitions from a degenerate to a nondegenerate system complicated the interpretation of the data. For a two-dimensional electron gas, where the positive background charge is well separated from the two dimensional system, magnetic freeze-out effects are barely visible and an analysis of the data in the extreme quantum limit seems to be easier. First measurements in this magnetic field region on silicon field-effect transistors were not successful because the disorder in these devices was so large that all electrons in the lowest Landau level were localized. Consequently, models of a spin glass and finally of a Wigner solid were developed and much effort was put into developing the technology for improving the quality of semi conductor materials and devices, especially in the field of two-dimensional electron systems.
Beyond Weird
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 022655838X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not really telling us that “weird” things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don’t seem obvious or right at all—or even possible. An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means—and what it doesn’t. Science writer Philip Ball offers an up-to-date, accessible account of the quest to come to grips with the most fundamental theory of physical reality, and to explain how its counterintuitive principles underpin the world we experience. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge—about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn’t a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called “weird,” it’s us.
More Things in Heaven and Earth
Author: Benjamin Bederson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 855
ISBN-13: 1461215129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 20th century has been the century of unparalleled scientific advances fuelled primarily by discoveries made by physicists. The century also represents the life span of the American Physical Society, not coincidentally, and to celebrate both its own centennial and this remarkable century, the APS has prepared this book highlighting the seminal discoveries of the 20th century, with invited articles by the world's most eminent living physicists, including 12 physics Nobel Prize winners. Some 40 chapters cover a broad range of topics in physics written in an engaging and personal style. While the technical level is high, these are not review articles, but rather perspectives on discoveries written by those scientists most closely associated with the original work, as well as future directions of research.
The Basics of Quantum Physics
Author: Edward Willett
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2004-12-15
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781404203341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the phenomena that classical physics could not explain but quantum physics could, the photoelectric effect and line spectra.
Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry
Author: George C. Schatz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-04-30
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0486136728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvanced graduate-level text looks at symmetry, rotations, and angular momentum addition; occupation number representations; and scattering theory. Uses concepts to develop basic theories of chemical reaction rates. Problems and answers.
