The Wonder of Quantum Spin
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-888485-9 (ISBN)
The Wonder of Quantum Spin is a confection of the history and the science of quantum spin sprinkled with quotations and excerpts from pioneers who lived and breathed science. The book unfolds two centuries of the golden era in mathematics and physics, where first glimpses of spin appeared nearly 200 years ago in the mathematics of rotations. In these studies, spinors emerged as a new entity that changes sign after a 360 degree rotation, reminiscent of the Mobius geometry. A century later, quantum spins described by spinors was discovered in physics in atomic spectra. This led to the discovery of antimatter and raised the possibility of parity violation. It gave the first warning that protons and neutrons are not elementary.
As we approach the centennial of the discovery, the spin mystique prevails as we have no clue of what exactly is spinning. Nevertheless, the theoretical framework underlying the spin determines why we exist, and explains the mysteries of the 3000-year-old phenomenon of magnetism.
This book showcases MRI - one of the most important medical advances of the 20th century with a tantalizing history of the application of nuclear spin to humanity. It narrates fascinating spin tales of the precision measurements of electron and muon spin magnetic moments displaying a mindboggling confrontation between theory and experiment that remains our ambassador to quantum physics.
Indubala I. Satija is a Physics Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating with a Masters in physics from Bombay University, she got her doctorate in theoretical physics at Columbia University. She has published numerous scientific articles on the diverse range of topics that include topological insulators, ultracold atoms, quantum phase transitions, solitons and classical and quantum chaos. In 2016, she wrote a book, Butterfly in the Quantum World with Douglas Hofstadter. Her current focus of research is topological states of matter.
Preface
Prelude
Introduction
PART I: The Mystique of Quantum Spin From Rodrigues and Hamilton...To Pauli, Dirac and Hesteness
1/2. The 18th CenturyDL The Unification of Algebra and Geometry: Glimpses of Quantum Spin
1: 1897DL Landmarks in the History of the Discovery of Spin.
3/2: 1928DL "Found Beautiful"DLThe Dirac Equation.
Part II: Marbles That Fell From Dirac Equation: Handedness, Majorana Fermion, Spin-Statistics, QED...
2: 1929DL Weyl and Majorana Fermions, "Närrisch" Neutrino, and the Revelation of Parity Violation.
5/2: 1933DL A Peek Inside the Nucleus: From Proton-Neutron to Flavored and Colored Quarks.
3: 1933DL Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and (N)MRI.
7/2: 1939DL Spin-Statistics and the Stability of the Universe.
4: 1947DL The Lore of the g-factor.
Part III: Quantum Spin and Seminal Discoveries Past Quantum Revolution
9/2: 1960DL Twister Theory: Spinors Describe Spacetime.
5: 1980sDL Spin, Spinor, and the Geometric Phase.
11/2: Pseudo-Spin-1/2 Models and Topological States of Matter.
Part IV: Quantum Computing: Second Quantum Revolution?
6: A Prelude to Quantum Computing.
2*p: Spin and Quantum Information.
Appendix A Spinor Is the Square Root of a Null Vector
Appendix B The Magic of Complex Numbers
Coda
Gratitude
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 117 line illustrations and halftones |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 802 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-888485-0 / 0198884850 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-888485-9 / 9780198884859 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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