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The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum

Author : Gennaro Auletta
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303016649X
Total Pages : 863 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum written by Gennaro Auletta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume gives a balanced and systematic treatment of both the interpretation and the mathematical-conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. It is written in a pedagogical style and addresses many thorny problems of fundamental physics. The first aspect concerns Interpretation. The author raises the central problems: formalism, measurement, non-locality, and causality. The main positions on these subjects are presented and critically analysed. The aim is to show that the main schools can converge on a core interpretation. The second aspect concerns Foundations. Here it is shown that the whole theory can be grounded on information theory. The distinction between information and signal leads us to integrating quantum mechanics and relativity. Category theory is presented and its significance for quantum information shown; the logic and epistemological bases of the theory are assessed. Of relevance to all physicists and philosophers with an interest in quantum theory and its foundations, this book is destined to become a classic work.

Quantum Puzzle, The: Critique Of Quantum Theory And Electrodynamics

Author : Clarke Barry R
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814696994
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Book Synopsis Quantum Puzzle, The: Critique Of Quantum Theory And Electrodynamics by : Clarke Barry R

Download or read book Quantum Puzzle, The: Critique Of Quantum Theory And Electrodynamics written by Clarke Barry R and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1861, James Clerk–Maxwell published Part II of his four-part series "On physical lines of force". In it, he attempted to construct a vortex model of the magnetic field but after much effort neither he, nor other late nineteenth century physicists who followed him, managed to produce a workable theory. What survived from these attempts were Maxwell's four equations of electrodynamics together with the Lorentz force law, formulae that made no attempt to describe an underlying reality but stood only as a mathematical description of the observed phenomena. When the quantum of action was introduced by Planck in 1900 the difficulties that had faced Maxwell's generation were still unresolved. Since then theories of increasing mathematical complexity have been constructed to attempt to bring the totality of phenomena into order with little success. This work examines the problems that had been abandoned long before quantum mechanics was formulated in 1925 and argues that these issues need to be revisited before real progress in the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field can be made. Contents:IntroductionThe Faraday–Maxwell FieldsThe ElectronBlackbody RadiationAtomic StructureLight and ActionMass Vortex RingsThe Magnetic Vortex FieldThe Electric Vortex Field Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in quantum physics.

The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics

Author : Daniel F. Styer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521667807
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics written by Daniel F. Styer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptionally accessible, accurate and non-technical introduction to the core concepts of quantum mechanics.

Quantum Mechanics

Author : Gennaro Auletta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139478451
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Quantum Mechanics written by Gennaro Auletta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The important changes quantum mechanics has undergone in recent years are reflected in this approach for students. A strong narrative and over 300 worked problems lead the student from experiment, through general principles of the theory, to modern applications. Stepping through results allows students to gain a thorough understanding. Starting with basic quantum mechanics, the book moves on to more advanced theory, followed by applications, perturbation methods and special fields, and ending with developments in the field. Historical, mathematical and philosophical boxes guide the student through the theory. Unique to this textbook are chapters on measurement and quantum optics, both at the forefront of current research. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from this perspective on the fundamental physical paradigm and its applications. Online resources including solutions to selected problems, and 200 figures, with colour versions of some figures, are available at www.cambridge.org/Auletta.

What's the Matter with Waves?

Author : William A. Parkinson (Physical chemist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681745794
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book What's the Matter with Waves? written by William A. Parkinson (Physical chemist) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like rocket science or brain surgery, quantum mechanics is pigeonholed as a daunting and inaccessible topic, which is best left to an elite or peculiar few. This classification was not earned without some degree of merit. Depending on perspective; quantum mechanics is a discipline or philosophy, a convention or conundrum, an answer or question. Authors have run the gamut from hand waving to heavy handed in the hope to dispel the common beliefs about quantum mechanics, but perhaps they continue to promulgate the stigma. The focus of this particular effort is to give the reader an introduction, if not at least an appreciation, of the role that linear algebra techniques play in the practical application of quantum mechanical methods. It interlaces aspects of the classical and quantum picture, including a number of both worked and parallel applications. Students with no prior experience in quantum mechanics, motivated graduate students, or researchers in other areas attempting to gain some introduction to quantum theory will find particular interest in this book.

What Is Real?

Author : Adam Becker
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096069
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book What Is Real? written by Adam Becker and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book Review An Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Longlisted for Goodreads Choice Award Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's solipsistic and poorly reasoned Copenhagen interpretation. Indeed, questioning it has long meant professional ruin, yet some daring physicists, such as John Bell, David Bohm, and Hugh Everett, persisted in seeking the true meaning of quantum mechanics. What Is Real? is the gripping story of this battle of ideas and the courageous scientists who dared to stand up for truth. "An excellent, accessible account." --Wall Street Journal "Splendid. . . . Deeply detailed research, accompanied by charming anecdotes about the scientists." --Washington Post

The Quantum Puzzle

Author : Barry R. Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789814696982
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Quantum Puzzle written by Barry R. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1861, James Clerk-Maxwell published Part II of his four-part series 'On physical lines of force'. In it, he attempted to construct a vortex model of the magnetic field but after much effort neither he, nor other late nineteenth century physicists who followed him, managed to produce a workable theory. What survived from these attempts were Maxwell's four equations of electrodynamics together with the Lorentz force law, formulae that made no attempt to describe an underlying reality but stood only as a mathematical description of the observed phenomena. When the quantum of action was introduced by Planck in 1900 the difficulties that had faced Maxwell's generation were still unresolved. Since then theories of increasing mathematical complexity have been constructed to attempt to bring the totality of phenomena into order with little success. This work examines the problems that had been abandoned long before quantum mechanics was formulated in 1925 and argues that these issues need to be revisited before real progress in the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field can be made.

Quantum Paradoxes and Physical Reality

Author : F. Selleri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792302537
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Quantum Paradoxes and Physical Reality written by F. Selleri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1989-12-31 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the debate about the true nature of the quantum behavior of atomic systems has never ceased, there are two periods during which it has been particularly intense: the years that saw the founding of quantum mechanics and, increasingly, these modern times. In 1954 Max Born, on accepting the Nobel Prize for his 'fundamental researches in quantum mechanics', recalled the depth of the disagreements that divided celebrated quantum theorists of those days into two camps: . . . when I say that physicists had accepted the way of thinking developed by us at that time, r am not quite correct: there are a few most noteworthy exceptions - namely, among those very workers who have contributed most to the building up of quantum theory. Planck himself belonged to the sceptics until his death. Einstein, de Broglie, and Schriidinger have not ceased to emphasize the unsatisfactory features of quantum mechanics . . . . This dramatic disagreement centered around some of the most funda mental questions in all of science: Do atomic objects exist il1dependently of human observations and, if so, is it possible for man to understand correctly their behavior? By and large, it can be said that the Copenhagen and Gottingen schools - led by Bohr, Heisenberg, and Born, in particula- gave more or less openly pessimistic answers to these questions.

What's the Matter with Waves?

Author : William Parkinson
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1681745771
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book What's the Matter with Waves? written by William Parkinson and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like rocket science or brain surgery, quantum mechanics is pigeonholed as a daunting and inaccessible topic, which is best left to an elite or peculiar few. This classification was not earned without some degree of merit. Depending on perspective; quantum mechanics is a discipline or philosophy, a convention or conundrum, an answer or question. Authors have run the gamut from hand waving to heavy handed in hopes to dispel the common beliefs about quantum mechanics, but perhaps they continue to promulgate the stigma. The focus of this particular effort is to give the reader an introduction, if not at least an appreciation, of the role that linear algebra techniques play in the practical application of quantum mechanical methods. It interlaces aspects of the classical and quantum picture, including a number of both worked and parallel applications. Students with no prior experience in quantum mechanics, motivated graduate students, or researchers in other areas attempting to gain some introduction to quantum theory will find particular interest in this book.

Interpreting quantum mechanics: a historical approach

Author : Favio, Vitery Cala
Publisher : Editorial Tadeo Lozano
ISBN 13 : 9587251814
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting quantum mechanics: a historical approach written by Favio, Vitery Cala and published by Editorial Tadeo Lozano. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book condenses some of the critical features of the discussion about the interpretative problems of quantum mechanics, pointing out some possible ways out of the conundrum. In order to set the road for these matters, chapter one introduces a conceptual history of the theory and its alternative interpretations. Chapter two profiles a taxonomy of the interpretative problems and some possible solutions, focused in the so-called measurement problem. Chapter three questions the thesis of quantum mechanics becoming what it is due to historical contingency. Finally, in chapter four, an argument is advanced to consider one particular interpretation –the causal account- as an alternative view that may help with the solution of the interpretative knot.

Something Deeply Hidden

Author : Sean Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524743038
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Something Deeply Hidden written by Sean Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of twentieth-century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: Physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps—which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us. Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The Many-Worlds theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established. Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the threshold of a new understanding—of where we are in the cosmos, and what we are made of.

The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

Author : Werner Heisenberg
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486601137
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory written by Werner Heisenberg and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1949-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate discusses quantum theory, uncertainty, wave mechanics, work of Dirac, Schroedinger, Compton, Einstein, others. "An authoritative statement of Heisenberg's views on this aspect of the quantum theory." ? Nature.

The Quantum World

Author : New Scientist
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1473629470
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Quantum World written by New Scientist and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget everything you thought you knew about reality. The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behaviour according to whether they are being watched. This is not some alternative universe but the realm of the very small, where quantum mechanics rules. In this weird world of atoms and their constituents, our common sense understanding of reality breaks down - yet quantum mechanics has never failed an experimental test. What does it all mean? For all its weirdness, quantum mechanics has given us many practical technologies including lasers and the transistors that underlie computers and all digital technology. In the future, it promises computers more powerful than any built before, the ability to communicate with absolute privacy, and even quantum teleportation. The Quantum World explores the past, present and future of quantum science, its applications and mind-bending implications. Discover how ideas from quantum mechanics are percolating out into the vast scale of the cosmos - perhaps, in the future, to reveal a new understanding of the big bang and the nature of space and time. ABOUT THE SERIES New Scientist Instant Expert books are definitive and accessible entry points to the most important subjects in science; subjects that challenge, attract debate, invite controversy and engage the most enquiring minds. Designed for curious readers who want to know how things work and why, the Instant Expert series explores the topics that really matter and their impact on individuals, society, and the planet, translating the scientific complexities around us into language that's open to everyone, and putting new ideas and discoveries into perspective and context.

John S. Bell on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Author : J. S. Bell
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810246884
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book John S. Bell on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics written by J. S. Bell and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most complete collection of John S Bell's research papers, review articles and lecture notes on the foundations of quantum mechanics. Some of this material has hitherto been difficult to access. The book also appears in a paperback edition, aimed at students and young researchers.This volume will be very useful to researchers in the foundations and applications of quantum mechanics.

Ultimate Zero and One

Author : Colin P. Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146120495X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Ultimate Zero and One written by Colin P. Williams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As miniaturisation deepens, and nanotechnology and its machines become more prevalent in the real world, the need to consider using quantum mechanical concepts to perform various tasks in computation increases. Such tasks include: the teleporting of information, breaking heretofore "unbreakable" codes, communicating with messages that betray eavesdropping, and the generation of random numbers. This is the first book to apply quantum physics to the basic operations of a computer, representing the ideal vehicle for explaining the complexities of quantum mechanics to students, researchers and computer engineers, alike, as they prepare to design and create the computing and information delivery systems for the future. Both authors have solid backgrounds in the subject matter at the theoretical and more practical level. While serving as a text for senior/grad level students in computer science/physics/engineering, this book has its primary use as an up-to-date reference work in the emerging interdisciplinary field of quantum computing - the only prerequisite being knowledge of calculus and familiarity with the concept of the Turing machine.

The Infinity Puzzle

Author : F. E. Close
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465021441
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Infinity Puzzle written by F. E. Close and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many mysteries of the atom have came unraveled, but one remains intractable- what Frank Close calls the 'Infinity puzzle'. The problem was simple to describe. Although clearly very powerful, quantum field theory ... was making one utterly ridiculous prediction: that certain events had an infinite probability of occurring. ... The Infinity Puzzle charts the birth and life of the idea, and the scientists, ... who realized it. Based on numerous firsthand interviews and extensive research, this book captures an era of great mystery and greater discovery. Even if the Higgs boson is never found, renormalization- the pursuit of an orderly universe- has led to one of the richest and most productive intellectual periods in human history."--Book jacket.

Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory

Author : R. Mirman
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560729914
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory written by R. Mirman and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excision of errors and confusion about quantum mechanics -- and stimulation of thoughtful and adventurous readers are pre-eminent rationales of this entire work; these requiring definitions and analysis of underlying concepts of quantum mechanics, of quantum field theory -- why probability is given by the absolute square, what wavefunctions are and are not and why, and many others -- and also examination of some from the philosophy of science. People's beliefs about quantum mechanics are often just the reverse of what fundamental principles give, seen most spectacularly with the EPR 'paradox'. The puzzles, the mystical, the bizarre, come merely from negligence, from blunders, including the outlandish belief that the universe must be explained using classical physics. Careless, unthinking physicists, and gullible journalists who naively accept their confusion as statements about nature, cause so much misunderstanding and nonsense about physics. Among the many examples considered are the non-existence in quantum mechanics of waves and particles, so of wave-particle duality; the reason that general relativity must be the quantum theory of gravity; the mystery of the cosmological constant: why people believe in it though it would be obvious to a high school student that there cannot be any, it must be zero; the absurdity (and wild incorrectness) of much of the discussion about the vacuum; the required locality of quantum mechanics and the impossibility of action-at-a-distance; and many others. Many blunders, not only about physics, come from abuse of language, the use of words, phrases, sentences without content, with con- notation but no denotation, of names --- quantum mechanics, particles, waves, and so on -- that deceive and misrepresent, of questions that ask nothing. It is not only in physics that answers to questions without meaning smother and hide.