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Autore |
Bacry Henri |
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Localizability and Space in Quantum Physics [[electronic resource] /] / by Henri Bacry |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1988 |
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[1st ed. 1988.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (VII, 84 p.) |
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Collana |
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Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 308 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Quantum physics |
Quantum computers |
Spintronics |
Quantum Physics |
Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents: Introduction -- Historical Sketch on the Nature of Light -- The Correspondence Principle, the Wave Corpuscle Duality, the Complementarity Principle and the Slit Experiment -- The Spin Quantization Problem -- Localizability. The Photon Scandal. Quantization Helpless!- A Position Operator for the Photon. Giving up the Complementary Principle -- Departing from the Newton-Wigner-Wightman Axioms -- Is Minkowski Space-time Suitable for Particle Physics?- Appendix A. The Symplectic Structure of Coadjoint Orbits -- Appendix B. The Quantization of the Sphere S2 -- Appendix C. The Angular Momentum of an Electric Charge in the Monopole Field (an Application of the Noether Theorem) -- Appendix D. Non Localizability of the Classical Massless Particle with Helicity -- Appendix E. The Maxwell Equations and the Poincaré Group -- Appendix F. The Zitterbewegung. The Pryce-Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation -- Quotations -- Index of Names. |
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This book discusses in detail the concept of light quanta (photons) and presents a historical survey of the ideas involved. It analyses critically the principles of complementarity and correspondence as well as the |
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