More Than One Mystery: Explorations In Quantum Interference - Softcover

Silverman, Mark P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387943765 ISBN 13: 9780387943763

Verlag: Springer, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

1 Fields Without Forces.- 1.1 The Enigma of Quantum Interference.- 1.2 Confined Fields and Electron Interference.- References.- 2 Around and Around: The Rotating Electron in Electromagnetic Fields.- 2.1 Broken Symmetry of the Charged Planar Rotator.- 2.2 The Two-Dimensional Rotator in an Electric Field.- 2.3 The Two-Dimensional Rotator in a Magnetic Field.- 2.4 The Two-Dimensional Rotator in a Vector Potential Field.- 2.5 Fermions, Bosons, and Things In-Between.- 2.6 Quantum Interference in a Metal Ring.- References.- 3 Interferometry of Correlated Particles.- 3.1 Ghostly Correlations: Wave and Spin.- 3.2 The AB-EPR Effect with Two Solenoids.- 3.3 The AB-HBT Effect in a Two-Slit Interferometer.- 3.4 Correlated Particles in a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer.- 3.5 Brighter Than a Million Suns: Electron Beams from Atom-Size Sources.- References.- 4 Quantum Boosts and Quantum Beats.- 4.1 Interfering Pathways in Time.- 4.2 Laser-Generated Quantum Beats.- 4.3 Nonlinear Effects in a Three-Level Atom.- 4.4 Correlated Beats from Entangled States.- References.- 5 Sympathetic Vibrations: The Atom in Resonant Fields.- 5.1 Beams, Bottles, and Electric Resonance.- 5.2 Two Perspectives of the Two-Level Atom.- 5.3 Oscillating Field Theory.- 5.4 Resonance and Coherent States: The Tell-Tale Mark of a Quantum Jump.- 5.5 Quantum Interference in Separated Oscillating Fields.- 5.6 Ion Interferometry and Tests of Gauge Invariance.- References.- 6 The Quantum Physics of Handedness.- 6.1 Optical Activity of Mirror-Image Molecules.- 6.2 Quantum Interference and Parity Conservation.- 6.3 Optical Activity of Rotating Matter.- References.

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Mark P. Silverman is Professor of Physics at Trinity College. After earning a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, he has pursued a wide range of research interests concerning the structure of matter, the properties of light, and the dynamics of stars and galaxies. He has held the Joliot Chair of Physics at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles in Paris, was Erskine Professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, and Chief Researcher at the Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory (then) near Tokyo. Besides numerous articles on physics, Dr. Silverman has written of his educational experiments in "self-directed learning". For relaxation, he enjoys playing the flute and hiking in the mountains.

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By examining a few conceptually simple models, such as the two-level atom and the two-slit interferometer, Silverman probesthe perplexing consequences of the 'ghostly' long-range effects that correlated particles exert on each other, the deep connection between spin and the statistics of identical particles, and the fundamental role of topology it he interactions of charged particles and electromagnetic fields. Silverman--whose experimental and theoretical work on election interferometry, atomic spectroscopy, and the optics of chiral media is internationally recognized--concludes authoritatively: There is more than one mystery in the intriguing world of quantum mechanics.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0387943765
• ISBN 13: 9780387943763
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
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