Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)

The SEWM2002 workshop, like the ones before, brought together theoretical physicists working on thermal field theory and, more generally, on (resummation) techniques for deriving effective actions based on QCD and the electroweak standard model of elementary particle physics, but describing nonstandard situations.

One of the aims of this book is to explain in a basic manner the seemingly difficult issues of mathematical structure using some specific examples as a guide.

Wigner's quasi-probability distribution function in phase space is a special (Weyl) representation of the density matrix.

This book is made up of two essays on the role of time in probability and quantum physics.

This book is the second volume of lecture notes on various topics in nonlinear physics delivered by specialists in the field who gave courses in the small village of Peyresq (France) during summer schools (2000, 2001, 2002) organised by the Institut Non Lineaire de Nice (INLN), in collaboration with the Institut de Recherche de Physique Hors Equilibre (IRPHE).

Lecture notes from a Summer School on Quantum Probability held at the University of Grenoble are collected in these two volumes of the QP-PQ series.

Lecture notes from a Summer School on Quantum Probability held at the University of Grenoble are collected in these two volumes of the QP-PQ series.

This book focuses on phonons and electrons, which the student needs to learn first in solid state physics.

This book is a collection of reviews and essays about the recent wide-ranging developments in the areas of quantum physics.

In August/September 2002, a group of 78 physicists from 50 laboratories in 17 countries met in Erice, Italy, to participate in the 40th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics.

In this expanded edition of Quanta, Logic and Spacetime, the logical base is greatly broadened and quantum-computational aspects of the approach are brought to the fore.

Quantum computation and information is a new, rapidly developing interdisciplinary field.

Quantum information is a developing multi-disciplinary field, with many exciting links to white noise theory.

The book contains the text of lectures given at the third of a series of biennial symposia in mathematical physics held in odd-numbered years.

In the history of physics and science, quantum mechanics has served as the foundation of modern science.

In the last decade, the development of new ideas in quantum theory, including geometric and deformation quantization, the non-Abelian Berry's geometric factor, super- and BRST symmetries, non-commutativity, has called into play the geometric techniques based on the deep interplay between algebra, differential geometry and topology.

This volume presents an authoritative review of the physics of strongly and electroweakly interacting elementary particle matter in extreme conditions that prevailed in the very early Universe, and which are being recreated in high energy physics laboratories today.

This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the Bialowieza series of meetings on Differential Geometric Methods in Physics; the anniversary meeting was held during July 1-7, 2001.

This volume collects research papers in quantum probability and related fields and reflects the recent developments in quantum probability ranging from the foundations to its applications.

This book explains the subtleties of quantum statistical mechanics in lower dimensions and their possible ramifications in quantum theory.

This book presents analytical formulas which allow one to calculate the S-matrix for the acoustic and electromagnetic wave scattering by small bodies or arbitrary shapes with arbitrary accuracy.

Bell anchored the logic chain begun by Einstein, Rosen, and Podolsky and tested by Aspect et al.

"e;It was a brilliant idea to signal the 50th birthday of Yang-Mills theory by gathering together a wide range of articles by leading experts on many aspects of the subject.

Quantum statistical inference, a research field with deep roots in the foundations of both quantum physics and mathematical statistics, has made remarkable progress since 1990.

This book gives a comprehensive account of the development and present status of the field of soft (i.

The goals of the 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Quantum Information Science, which are embodied in this volume, were to promote and strengthen the interactions and exchange of knowledge among researchers of the Asia-Pacific region in the rapidly advancing field of quantum information science.

This volume is a collection of papers from the third meeting of the international symposium on mesoscopic superconductivity and spintronics.

The contributors of this volume are working at the forefront of various realizations of quantum computers.

Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective is the first systematic cross- and trans-disciplinary appraisal of the endophysical paradigm and its possible role in our understanding of Nature.

Three key aspects of quantum gravity are considered in this book: phenomenology, potential experimental aspects and foundational theory.

Time and matter are the most fundamental concepts in physics and in any science-based description of the world around us.

This book describes the generalized Sturmian method, which offers a fresh approach to the calculation of atomic spectra.

New Edition: Field Theory (3rd Edition)This unique book describes quantum field theory completely within the context of path integrals.

This volume provides a unique overview of recent Italian studies on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related historical, philosophical and epistemological topics.

The goal of the 8th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology was to link recent advances in technology with fundamental problems and issues in quantum mechanics with an emphasis on quantum coherence, decoherence, and geometrical phase.

The area of low-dimensional quantum systems on discrete spaces is a rapidly growing research field lying at the interface between quantum theoretical developments, like discrete and q-difference equations, and tight binding superlattice models in solid-state physics.

Unique in its field, this book uses a methodology that is entirely new, creating the simplest and most abstract foundations for physics to date.

The main purpose of this volume is to emphasize the multidisciplinary aspects of this very active new line of research in which concrete technological and industrial realizations require the combined efforts of experimental and theoretical physicists, mathematicians and engineers.

The increasing precision of experimental data in many areas of elementary particle physics requires an equally precise theoretical description.

The ICGA series of conferences is specially aimed to serve the needs of the workers in this research area in the Asia-Pacific region.

Ever since 1911, the Solvay Conferences have shaped modern physics.

Noncommutative geometry provides a powerful tool for regularizing quantum field theories in the form of fuzzy physics.

This is a fascinating and popular account of the very large and the very small, from the universe as a whole to subatomic physics.

This volume presents a collection of review papers on recent work in the connected areas of strongly correlated systems, the effects of coherence on macroscopic systems, and entanglement in quantum systems.

Magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) is a rapidly evolving field which originated in 1990s and matured recently with the first detection of a single electron spin below the surface of a non-transparent solid.

Already Einstein could never see quantum mechanics as a complete theory.

This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of discrete phase-space quantum mechanics and the lattice Weyl-Wigner formulation of energy band dynamics, by the originator of these theoretical techniques.

'The book is primarily addressed to physicists.

This volume contains the main contributions to the 14th International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories (RPMBT14) held at the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, in July 2007.

Major advances in the quantum theory of macroscopic systems, in combination with stunning experimental achievements, have brightened the field and brought it to the attention of the general community in natural sciences.