Download or read book Interacting Electrons written by Richard M. Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent progress in the theory and computation of electronic structure is bringing an unprecedented level of capability for research. Many-body methods are becoming essential tools vital for quantitative calculations and understanding materials phenomena in physics, chemistry, materials science and other fields. This book provides a unified exposition of the most-used tools: many-body perturbation theory, dynamical mean field theory and quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Each topic is introduced with a less technical overview for a broad readership, followed by in-depth descriptions and mathematical formulation. Practical guidelines, illustrations and exercises are chosen to enable readers to appreciate the complementary approaches, their relationships, and the advantages and disadvantages of each method. This book is designed for graduate students and researchers who want to use and understand these advanced computational tools, get a broad overview, and acquire a basis for participating in new developments.

Download or read book The Quantum Dissidents written by Olival Freire Junior and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the fascinating story of the people and events behind the turbulent changes in attitudes to quantum theory in the second half of the 20th century. The huge success of quantum mechanics as a predictive theory has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by doubts and controversy about its foundations and interpretation. This book looks in detail at how research on foundations evolved after WWII, when it was revived, until the mid 1990s, when most of this research merged into the technological promise of quantum information. It is the story of the quantum dissidents, the scientists who brought this subject from the margins of physics into its mainstream. It is also a history of concepts, experiments, and techniques, and of the relationships between physics and the world at large, touching on themes such as the Cold War, McCarthyism, Zhdanovism, and the unrest of the late 1960s.

Download or read book The Quantum Handshake written by John G. Cramer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shines bright light into the dim recesses of quantum theory, where the mysteries of entanglement, nonlocality, and wave collapse have motivated some to conjure up multiple universes, and others to adopt a "shut up and calculate" mentality. After an extensive and accessible introduction to quantum mechanics and its history, the author turns attention to his transactional model. Using a quantum handshake between normal and time-reversed waves, this model provides a clear visual picture explaining the baffling experimental results that flow daily from the quantum physics laboratories of the world. To demonstrate its powerful simplicity, the transactional model is applied to a collection of counter-intuitive experiments and conceptual problems.

Download or read book Hadronic Structure written by José L. Goity and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains lectures presented at the 14th Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (HUGS at CEBAF), that took place at Jefferson Lab and Hampton University from June 1st to 18th, 1999. The programme was focused on the structure of hadrons from the low to the high energy regimes, including a balance of theory and experiment, and emphasized topics in electron scattering on the nucleon and nuclei.

Download or read book Frontiers of Fundamental Physics written by M. Barone and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympia conference Frontiers of Fundamental Physics was a gathering of about hundred scientists who carryon their research in conceptually important areas of physical science (they do "fundamental physics"). Most of them were physicists, but also historians and philosophers of science were well represented. An important fraction of the participants could be considered "heretical" because they disagreed with the validity of one or several fundamental assumptions of modern physics. Common to all participants was an excellent scientific level coupled with a remarkable intellectual honesty: we are proud to present to the readers this certainly unique book. Alternative ways of considering fundamental matters should of course be vitally important for the progress of science, unless one wanted to admit that physics at the end of the XXth century has already obtained the final truth, a very unlikely possibility even if one accepted the doubtful idea of the existence of a "final" truth. The merits of the Olympia conference should therefore not be judged a priori in a positive or in a negative way depending on one's refusal or acceptance, respectively, but considered after reading the actual of basic principles of contemporary science, new proposals and evidences there presented. They seem very important to us.

Download or read book Pion Electroproduction written by Edoardo Amaldi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Open Questions in Quantum Physics written by G. Tarozzi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to its extraordinary predictive power and the great generality of its mathematical structure, quantum theory is able, at least in principle, to describe all the microscopic and macroscopic properties of the physical world, from the subatomic to the cosmological level. Nevertheless, ever since the Copen hagen and Gottingen schools in 1927 gave it the definitive formu lation, now commonly known as the orthodox interpretation, the theory has suffered from very serious logical and epistemologi cal problems. These shortcomings were immediately pointed out by some of the principal founders themselves of quantum theory, to wit, Planck, Einstein, Ehrenfest, Schrodinger, and de Broglie, and by the philosopher Karl Popper, who assumed a position of radical criticism with regard to the standard formulation of the theory. The aim of the participants in the workshop on Open Questions in Quantum Physics, which was held in Bari (Italy), in the Department of Physics of the University, during May 1983 and whose Proceedings are collected in the present volume, accord ingly was to discuss the formal, the physical and the epistemo logical difficulties of quantum theory in the light of recent crucial developments and to propose some possible resolutions of three basic conceptual dilemmas, which are posed respectively ~: (a) the physical developments of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument and Bell's theorem, i. e.

Download or read book Introduzione alla fisica dei quanti written by Franco Ciccacci and published by EdiSES srl. This book was released on 2010 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tecnologia Quantistica written by Nicola Limardo and published by Anima Srl. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questo libro permette di comprendere anche ai non esperti di Fisica gli affascinanti fenomeni di Meccanica Quantistica descrivendo in modo minuzioso come viene applicata la “Teoria dei Quanti” nella Tecnologia dei prodotti brevettati dall’Autore e che fanno ormai parte della “terza rivoluzione quantistica” applicata principalmente all’elettronica e alla medicina. In conclusione l’Autore formulerà in anteprima una propria teoria della “Legge del Tutto” che potrà incuriosire anche i lettori più esigenti. Il testo è suddiviso in due parti: la prima parte affronta le più importanti scoperte scientifiche che hanno contribuito allo sviluppo della Fisica delle Particelle, con una breve presentazione anche dei fisici quantistici più famosi; la seconda parte tratta le invenzioni nate dalle applicazioni tecnologiche delle scoperte scientifiche in fisica quantistica, in particolar modo le invenzioni da parte del team di ricerca diretto dall’Autore con l’ausilio dei laboratori universitari italiani e statunitensi. Il testo presenta anche approfondimenti scientifici utili per i lettori più esperti, evidenziati in appositi riquadri, in modo che i meno esperti possano comunque sorvolarli, senza tuttavia perdere il filo del discorso, che sarà molto stimolante non solo perché si immergeranno nel mondo dell’invisibile, ma perché, al termine della lettura, potranno prestare maggiore attenzione a tutto ciò che può garantire il mantenimento di una buona salute, anche grazie alle invenzioni nel settore medicale riportate nel testo in maniera approfondita.