LEADER 03632nam 22005655 450 001 996466804503316 005 20200629162523.0 010 $a3-540-45908-1 024 7 $a10.1007/BFb0019319 035 $a(CKB)1000000000233301 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000324482 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12133622 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000324482 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10312999 035 $a(PQKB)10564080 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-540-45908-8 035 $a(PPN)155202405 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000233301 100 $a20121227d1988 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLocalizability and Space in Quantum Physics$b[electronic resource] /$fby Henri Bacry 205 $a1st ed. 1988. 210 1$aBerlin, Heidelberg :$cSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :$cImprint: Springer,$d1988. 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 84 p.) 225 1 $aLecture Notes in Physics,$x0075-8450 ;$v308 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a3-540-50052-9 327 $aContents: 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. 330 $aThis book discusses in detail the concept of light quanta (photons) and presents a historical survey of the ideas involved. It analyses critically the principles of complementarity and correspondence as well as the quantization procedure. The work of Wigner, Newton and Wightman on localized states is discussed. The author presents many new ideas and gives a new way of defining the position operator. He invites physicists to look in new directions and aims to convince the reader that light quanta are not compatible with our present concept of space in quantum physics. The book should be of interest to students as well as to researchers in modern physics and should revive the discussion of the foundations of modern physics. 410 0$aLecture Notes in Physics,$x0075-8450 ;$v308 606 $aQuantum physics 606 $aQuantum computers 606 $aSpintronics 606 $aQuantum Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19080 606 $aQuantum Information Technology, Spintronics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P31070 615 0$aQuantum physics. 615 0$aQuantum computers. 615 0$aSpintronics. 615 14$aQuantum Physics. 615 24$aQuantum Information Technology, Spintronics. 676 $a530.1/2 700 $aBacry$b Henri$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$040397 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996466804503316 996 $aLocalizability and Space in Quantum Physics$9336276 997 $aUNISA