More Than One Mystery

Explorations in Quantum Interference

Mark P. Silverman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIV, 212 Seiten

1995
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-94340-2 (ISBN)

Infos

"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." #Richard Feynman# Basing his discussion on a small number of conceptually simple models (the two-level atom, the two-slit interferometer), the author addresses a number of conceptually interesting questions concerning the puzzles of quantum mechanics. Though the phenomena arising from quantum interference are central, he maintains that they are not the only mystery in quantum mechanics: the deep connection between spin and the statistics of identical particles, the "ghostly" long-range effects that correlated particles exert on each other, and the perplexing role of topology in the interactions of charged particles and electromagnetic fields, are all conundrums yet to be understood.

Autor

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".

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 51 figs.
• Sprache: deutsch
• Gewicht: 526 g
• Einbandart: gebunden
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
• Schlagworte: Atomphysik • Elementarteilchenphysik • Quantenmechanik
• ISBN-10: 3-540-94340-4 / 3540943404
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-94340-2 / 9783540943402
• Zustand: Neuware