Trends in Quantum Physics

Frank Columbus (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2004
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-59454-000-4 (ISBN)

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Although the various branches of physics differ in their experimental methods and theoretical approaches, certain general principles apply to all of them. The forefront of contemporary advances in physics lies in the submicroscopic regime, whether it be in atomic, nuclear, condensed-matter, plasma, or particle physics, or in quantum optics, or even in the study of stellar structure. All are based upon quantum theory (i.e., quantum mechanics and quantum field theory) and relativity, which together form the theoretical foundations of modern physics. Many physical quantities whose classical counterparts vary continuously over a range of possible values are in quantum theory constrained to have discontinuous, or discrete, values. The intrinsically deterministic character of classical physics is replaced in quantum theory by intrinsic uncertainty. According to quantum theory, electromagnetic radiation does not always consist of continuous waves; instead it must be viewed under some circumstances as a collection of particle-like photons, the energy and momentum of each being directly proportional to its frequency (or inversely proportional to its wavelength, the photons still possessing some wavelike characteristics). This new book presents state of art research from around the world.

CONTENTS: Preface; Tree Structures: A Variational Approach to Shannon-Wiener Information (Hanno Hammer, UMIST, United Kingdom); Nonlocal Properties and Local Invariants (Shao-Ming Fei, Capital Normal University, Beijing); A Survey of the Entanglement Changes Associated with Quantum Gates Acting on Two-Qubits (J. Batle, M. Casas, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain, A. Plastino and A. R. Plastino, National University La Plata, Argentina); Entangled Light and Applications (Matteo G. A. Paris, Universita di Milano, Italy); Implementation of Dense Coding Using the Generalized Grover's Algorithm (Jingfu Zhang, Zhiheng Lu, Lu Shan, and Zhiwei Deng, Beijing Normal University, Beijing); Classical Communication Over Quantum Channels (John Cortese, California Institute of Technology); From Fermat's Last Theorem To the Quantum Computer (Alexander Yu. Vlasov, Federal Radiological Center, Russia); Quantum Mechanics and an Objective Reality (D. A. Slavnov, Moscow State University, Russia); Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2004
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	260 x 180 mm
Gewicht	592 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
ISBN-10	1-59454-000-4 / 1594540004
ISBN-13	978-1-59454-000-4 / 9781594540004
Zustand	Neuware