Asymptotic time decay in quantum physics [[electronic resource] /] / Domingos H.U. Marchetti, Walter F. Wreszinski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463663003321
• Autore: Marchetti Domingos H. U (Domingos Humberto Urbano)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2013
• ISBN: 1-283-90002-5; 981-4383-81-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WreszinskiWalter F. <1946->
• Disciplina: 539; 539.7
• Soggetti: Asymptotic symmetry (Physics); Symmetry (Physics); Quantum field theory; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface: A Description of Contents; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1. Introduction: A Summary of Mathematical and Physical Background for One-Particle Quantum Mechanics; 2. Spreading and Asymptotic Decay of Free Wave Packets: The Method of Stationary Phase and van der Corput's Approach; 3. The Relation Between Time-Like Decay and Spectral Properties; 3.1 Decay on the Average Sense; 3.1.1 Preliminaries: Wiener's, RAGE and Weyl theorems; 3.1.2 Models of exotic spectra, quantum KAM theorems and Howland's theorem; 3.1.3 UαH measures and decay on the average: Strichartz-Last theorem and Guarneri-Last-Combes theorem3.2 Decay in the Lp-Sense; 3.2.1 Relation between decay in the Lp-sense and decay on the average sense; 3.2.2 Decay on the Lp-sense and absolute continuity; 3.2.3 Sojourn time, Sinha's theorem and time-energy uncertainty relation; 3.3 PointwiseDecay; 3.3.1 Does decay in the Lp-sense and/or absolute continuity imply pointwise decay?; 3.3.2 Rajchman measures, and the connection between ergodic theory, number theory and analysis; 3.3.3 Fourier dimension, Salem sets and Salem's method; 3.4 Quantum Dynamical Stability4. Time Decay for a Class of Models ; with Sparse Potentials; 4.1 Spectral Transition for Sparse Models in d = 1; 4.1.1 Existence of "mobility edges"; 4.1.2 Uniform distribution of Prufer angles; 4.1.3 Proof of Theorem 4.1; 4.2 Decay in the Average; 4.2.1 Anderson-like transition for "separable" sparse models in d = 2; 4.2.2 Uniform α-Holder continuity of spectral measures; 4.2.3 Formulation, proof and comments of the main result; 4.3 PointwiseDecay; 4.3.1 Pearson's fractal measures: Borderline time-decay for the least sparsemodel; 4.3.2 Gevrey-type estimates; 4.3.3 Proof of Theorem4.75. Resonances and Quasi-exponential Decay; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Model System; 5.3 Generalities on Laplace-Borel Transform and Asymptotic Expansions; 5.4 Decay for a Class of Model Systems After Costin and Huang: Gamow Vectors and Dispersive Part; 5.5 The Role of Gamow Vectors; 5.6 A First Example of Quantum Instability: Ionization; 5.7 Ionization: Study of a Simple Model; 5.8 A Second Example of Multiphoton Ionization: The Work of M. Huang; 5.9 The Reason for Enhanced Stability at Resonances: Connection with the Fermi Golden Rule; 6. Aspects of the Connection Between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Mechanics: Quantum Systems with Infinite Number of Degrees of Freedom6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Exponential Decay and Quantum Anosov Systems; 6.2.1 Generalities: Exponential decay in quantum and classical systems; 6.2.2 QuantumAnosov systems; 6.2.3 Examples of quantum Anosov systems and Weigert's configurational quantum cat map; 6.3 Approach to Equilibrium; 6.3.1 A brief introductory motivation; 6.3.2 Approach to equilibrium in classical (statistical) mechanics 1: Ergodicity, mixing and the Anosov property. The Gibbs entropy; 6.3.3 Approach to equilibrium in classical mechanics 2
• Sommario/riassunto: Time decays form the basis of a multitude of important and interesting phenomena in quantum physics that range from spectral properties, resonances, return and approach to equilibrium, to quantum mixing, dynamical stability properties and irreversibility and the "arrow of time".This monograph is devoted to a clear and precise, yet pedagogical account of the associated concepts and methods.

The architecture of transgression / / guest-edited by Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453430303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England : , : Wiley, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-118-75907-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (140 p.)
• Collana: Architectural Design, , 0003-8504
• Altri autori (Persone): MosleyJonathan; SaraRachel
• Disciplina: 724.7
• Soggetti: Architecture, Modern - 20th century; Architecture, Modern - 21st century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Contents; Copyright Page; EDITORIAL; ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS; SPOTLIGHT: Visual highlights of the issue; INTRODUCTION: The Architecture of Transgression: Towards a Destabilising Architecture; Transgression: The Concept; Extenuating Circumstances: Salvaged Landscape; Architecture and Transgression: An Interview with Bernard Tschumi; Transgression and Progress in China: Wang Shu and the Literati Mindset; Not Doing/Overdoing: 'Omission' and 'Excess' - Lacaton & Vassal's Place Léon Aucoc, Bordeaux, and Construire's Le Channel, Scène Nationale de Calais, Calais; Citadels of Freedom: Lina Bo Bardi's SESC Pompéia Factory Leisure Centre and Teatro Oficina, São PauloTactics for a Transgressive Practice; Low-Tech Transgression: The Interventional Work of EXYZT; Occupied Space; The Power of Logic Versus the Logic of Power: N55; Informalising Architecture: The Challenge of Informal Settlements; Architecture (and the other 99%): Open-Source Architecture and the Design Commons; An Architecture of Exception: Transgressing the Everyday - Superflex's Flooded McDonald's; Transgression in and of the City; Urban Disturbance: Urban Intrusions of the office for subversive architecture (osa)City as Skin: Urban Imaginaries of Flesh and Fantasy; In Praise of Transgression: The Work of Didier Faustino/Bureau de Mésarchitectures; Ashes Thrown to the Wind: The Elusive Nature of Transgression; COUNTERPOINT: Transgression, Innovation, Politics; CONTRIBUTORS; ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The current economic crisis and accompanying political/social unrest has exacerbated the difficulty into which architecture has long been sliding: challenged by other professions and a culture of conservatism, architecture is in danger of losing its prized status as one of the pre-eminent visual arts. Transgression opens up new possibilities for practice. It highlights the positive impact that working on

Coming-of-age cinema in New Zealand : genre, gender and adaptation / / Alistair Fox [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793138003321
• Autore: Fox Alistair
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-4744-2947-5; 1-4744-2946-7; 1-4744-3843-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Traditions in world cinema
• Disciplina: 791.4365235
• Soggetti: Coming-of-age films - New Zealand - History and criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; New Zealand
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Traditions in World Cinema -- Part 1 The Coming-of-age Genre and ; National Cinema -- 1. The Coming-of-age Film as a Genre: Attributes, Evolution, and Functions -- 2. New Zealand Coming-of-age Films: Distinctive Characteristics and Thematic Preoccupations -- Part 2 The New Zealand New Wave: 1976-89 -- 3. The Formation of a Budding Man Alone: The God Boy (Murray Reece, 1976) -- 4. An Angry Young Man Seeks to Justify Himself: Sleeping Dogs (Roger Donaldson, 1977) -- 5. An Immigrant Filmmaker Substitutes an Alternative Vision of Adolescence: The Scarecrow -- 6. Art-cinema, Cultural Dislocation, and the Entry into Puberty: Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984) -- 7. A Maori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns - Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint -- Part 3 The Second Wave of the 1990s -- 8. Creativity as a Haven: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990) -- 9. Desperation Turned Outwards: Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994) -- 10. Confronting Domestic Violence and Familial Abuse: Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994) -- Part 4 Preoccupations of the New Millennium -- 11. An Adolescent Girl Experiments with Sexuality: Rain (Christine Jeffs, 2001) -- 12. Asserting Feminist Claims within Maori Culture: Whale Rider (Niki Caro, 2002) -- 13. Family Secrets and Their Destructive Consequences: In My Father's Den (Brad McGann, 2004) -- 14. A Gay Boy Comes to Terms with His Sexuality: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (Stewart Main, 2005) -- Part 5 Perspectives on Maori Culture since 2010 -- 15. Parental Abandonment and the Trauma of Loss: Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010) -- 16. A Maori Boy Contests the Old Patriarchal Order: Mahana (Lee Tamahori, 2016) -- 17. Delinquency and Bicultural Relations: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand's national cinema, tracing its development and elucidating its role in cultural change.