What Is the Measurement Problem Anyway? Introductory Reflections on Quantum Puzzles -- Radically Quantum: Liberation and Purification from Classical Prejudice -- Quantum Physics as a Science of Information -- Quantum Theory Looks at Time Travel -- What Connects Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics? -- Is Quantum Mechanics the Whole Truth? -- Roundtable Discussion I: Physical Theories,…
Elements of Quantum Dynamics -- Electron-Impurity System -- Linear Response Theory -- Bosons Interacting with Electrons -- Interacting Phonon Systems -- Effects of Electron-Electron Interaction -- Non-Equilibrium Electrons -- Non-Equilibrium Diagram Technique -- Kinetics of Bounded Systems -- Quantum Magnetotransport -- Photoexcitation -- Ballistic and Hopping Transport -- Multi-Channel Kinetic…
25 Years of Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) A Personal View on the Discovery, Physics and Applications of this Quantum Effect -- Physics in a Strong Magnetic Field -- The Quantum Hall Effect as an Electrical Resistance Standard -- to the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect -- Tunneling Experiments in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Regime.
Results in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics -- The Construction of Fields -- Canonical Quantization -- Commutators and Propagators -- Interactions and the S-matrix -- The Electromagnetic Field -- Examples of Scattering Processes -- Functional Integral Representations -- Renormalization -- Gauge Theories -- Symmetry -- Spontaneous symmetry breaking -- Anomalies I -- Elements of differential geomet…
The Renormalization Group Approach – From Fermi Liquids to Quantum Dots (R. Shankar) -- Semiconductor Few-Electron Quantum Dots as Spin Qubits (J.M. Elzerman et al.) -- Low-Temperature Conduction of a Quantum Dot (M. Pustilnik and L. Glazman) -- Andreev Billiards (C.W.J. Beenakker).Quantum dots, often denoted artificial atoms, are the exquisite tools by which quantum behavior can be probed on…
The Mass and Size of the Atom -- Isotopes -- The Nucleus of the Atom -- The Photon -- The Electron -- Some Basic Properties of Matter Waves -- Bohr’s Model of the Hydrogen Atom -- The Mathematical Framework of Quantum Theory -- Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom -- Lifting of the Orbital Degeneracy in the Spectra of Alkali Atoms -- Orbital and Spin Magnetism. Fine Structure -- Atoms in a …
Fundamentals -- Strongly Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equations -- Free Energy Fokker-Planck Equations -- Free Energy Fokker-Planck Equations with Boltzmann Statistics -- Entropy Fokker-Planck Equations -- General Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equations -- Epilogue.Providing an introduction to the theory of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations, this book discusses fundamental properties of transient and stat…
Elementary Newtonian Mechanics -- The Principles of Canonical Mechanics -- The Mechanics of Rigid Bodies -- Relativistic Mechanics -- Geometric Aspects of Mechanics -- Stability and Chaos -- Continuous Systems.This updated and revised fourth edition covers all topics in mechanics from elementary Newtonian mechanics, canonical and rigid body mechanics to relativistic mechanics and nonlinear dyna…
Dirac Monopole -- Magnetic Monopole in Classical Theory -- The Electron-Monopole System:Quantum-Mechanical Interaction -- Topological Roots of the Abelian Monopole -- Abelian Monopole: Relativistic Quantum Theory -- Monopole in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories -- ’t Hooft-Polyakov Monopole -- Multimonopole Configurations -- SU(2) Monopole in Quantum Theory -- Monopoles Beyond SU(2) Group -- Monopol…
Preface - Electrodynamics: Introduction -- Potential and Electric Field of Discrete Charge Distributions -- Boundary Problem of Electrostatics -- Two Ions in the Penning Trap -- Exercises -- Packages and Programs - Quantum Mechanics: Introduction -- The Schrödinger Equation -- One Dimensional Potential -- The Harmonic Oscillator -- Anharmonic Oscillator -- Motion in the Central Force Field -- …