Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)

The scientific career of John Stewart Bell was distinguished by its breadth and its quality.

This book emphasizes the experimental aspects of the author's own laboratory.

This volume presents the theory of partial differential equations (PDEs) from a modern geometric point of view so that PDEs can be characterized by using either technique of differential geometry or algebraic geometry.

Professor Jerzy Lukierski, an outstanding specialist in the domain of quantum groups, will reach on May 21, 1995 the age of sixty.

This book describes the subject of electrodynamics at classical as well as quantum level, developed as an interaction at a distance.

This book provides a comprehensive account, from first principles, of the methods of numerical quantum mechanics, beginning with formulations and fundamental postulates.

WAVELETS AND RENORMALIZATION describes the role played by wavelets in Euclidean field theory and classical statistical mechanics.

Anomalies are ubiquitous features in quantum field theories.

This book sets up a discrete universe with minimum and maximum dimensions.

"e;I re-experience once again the stimulating atmosphere of each of the ISQMs: There were theoretical discussions in diverse frontier areas of physics as well as descriptions of beautiful new (or planned) experiments and technologies.

It now appears that the old argument about Lorentz vs Galileo relativity is passing into history.

Hans A Bethe received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1967 for his work on the production of energy in stars.

Topological quantum numbers are distinguished from quantum numbers based on symmetry because they are insensitive to the imperfections of the systems in which they are observed.

The quantum measurement problem is one of the most fascinating and challenging topics in physics both theoretically and experimentally.

This book makes broadly accessible an understandable proof of the infamous spin-statistics theorem.

This invaluable monograph has arisen in part from E Witten's lectures on topological quantum field theory in the spring of 1989 at Princeton University.

Albert Einstein was one of the principal founders of the quantum and relativity theories.

This book analyzes in considerable generality the quantization-dequantization integral transform scheme of Weyl and Wigner, and considers several phase operator theories.

Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) was one of the giants of 20th Century science.

This book aims to provide a pedagogical introduction to the subjects of quantum information and quantum computation.

Quantum tunneling is an intriguing phenomenon arising in a multitude of physical contexts.

This book discusses quantum optics and investigates the quantum properties of interactions between atoms and laser fields.

This volume is a natural continuation of the book Algebraic Renormalization, Perturbative Renormalization, Symmetries and Anomalies, by O Piguet and S P Sorella, with the aim of applying the algebraic renormalization procedure to gauge field models quantized in nonstandard gauges.

Quantum computing promises to solve problems which are intractable on digital computers.

Much has changed in the world of quantum probability since the publication of the last volume in this series.

It can serve as a good supplement to any quantum mechanics textbook, filling the gap between standard textbooks and higher-level books on the one hand and journal articles on the other.

Einstein endorsed the view of Kaluza that gravity could be combined with electromagnetism if the dimensionality of the world is extended from 4 to 5.

One of the most exciting recent developments to have emerged from the quantum Hall effect is the subject of composite fermions.

In the past few decades many attempts have been made to search for a consistent formulation of quantum field theory beyond perturbation theory.

This volume includes highlights of the theories and experimental findings that underlie essential phenomena occurring in quantum-based devices and systems as well as the principles of operation of selected novel quantum-based electronic devices and systems.

This classic book marks the beginning of an era of vigorous mathematical progress in equilibrium statistical mechanics.

In this highly interesting monograph, a brief account of Finkelstein's approach to quantum theory and some of its ramifications is given.

This book is devoted to the classical and quantum phases in wave and particle optics from the viewpoint of both theory and applications.

These lecture notes constitute a course on a number of central concepts of solid state physics - classification of solids, band theory, the developments in one-electron band theory in the presence of perturbation, effective Hamiltonian theory, elementary excitations and the various types of collective elementary excitation (excitons, spin waves and phonons), the Fermi liquid, ferromagnetic spin waves, antiferromagnetic spin waves and the theory of broken symmetry.

This book is intended as a basic text for a two-term graduate course for physicists, engineers and chemists with a background in quantum and statistical mechanics.

The aim of this book is twofold: to provide a comprehensive account of the foundations of the theory and to outline a theoretical and philosophical interpretation suggested from the results of the last twenty years.

Quantum information theory has revolutionised our view on the true nature of information and has led to such intriguing topics as teleportation and quantum computation.

UNDER THE SPELL OF THE GAUGE PRINCIPLE - by G 't HooftThe University of Bologna and its Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Italian Physical Society, celebrated in 1998 the bicentenary of a great pioneer in the field of electric phenomena - Luigi Galvani, the father of macroelectricity.

This book provides a concise description of the current status of a fascinating scientific problem - the inverse variational problem in classical mechanics.

Equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of correlated many-body systems are of growing interest in many fields of physics, including condensed matter, dense plasmas, nuclear matter and particles.

This volume provides a sample of the present research on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related topics by collecting the papers of the Italian scholars who attended the conference entitled "e;The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Historical Analysis and Open Questions"e; (Lecce, 1998).

This book provides an up-to-date understanding of the progress and current problems of the interplay of nonlocality in the classical theories of gravitation and quantum theory.

This invaluable book takes the reader from Planck's discovery of the quantum in 1900 to the most recent interpretations and applications of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics.

Quantum many-body theory as a discipline in its own right dates largely from the 1950's.

Quantum chromodynamics is the fundamental theory of strong interactions.

Quantum chaos is becoming a very wide field that ranges from experiments to theoretical physics and purely mathematical issues.

In July 2000 a conference was held to honour the 65th birthdays of four of the leading international figures in the field of quantum many-body theory.

This volume includes several lecture notes on the fundamentals and elementary techniques of integrable field theories and on their applications to low-dimensional physics systems contributed by leading scientists in the respective fields.

This volume is devoted to different facets of QCD, stressing non-perturbative, analytic and lattice formulations, scattering solutions and approximations, and the understanding of recent RHIC experiments.