Niels Bohr, 1913-2013 : Poincaré Seminar 2013 /: Poincaré Seminar 2013. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Olivier Darrigol, Bertrand Duplantier, Jean-Michel Raimond, Vincent Rivasseau, editors.
• Editors: Darrigol, Olivier; Duplantier, Bertrand; Raimond, J.-M; Rivasseau, Vincent, 1955-
• Other Names: Poincaré Seminar, 14th
• Contents: Foreword; Contents; Bohr's Trilogy of 1913; Contents; 1 Atomic Models Before Bohr; 2 Summary of Bohr's Text: On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules (Part I); 3 The Impact of Bohr's Theory; A Few Recommended Readings; On the General History of Atomic Structure:; On the 1913 Trilogy and Its Context:; On the Later Evolution of Quantum Theory:; On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules; Introduction; Part I: Binding of Electrons by Positive Nuclei; 1. General Considerations; 2. Emission of Line-Spectra; 3. General Considerations Continued; 4. Absorption of Radiation. 5. The Permanent State of an Atomic SystemKeeping Things Open; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Courage; 3 Philosophical Outlook; 4 The Art of Being Wrong; 5 Raw Power; 6 Ability to Think Concretely; 7 Family; 8 Keeping Things Open; References; The Mind that Created the Bohr Atom; Contents; 1 A Partial Inventory of Bohr's Mind, 20 July 1912; 1.1 Concerning Himself; 1.2 Concerning Physics; 1.3 Concerning Culture; 2 Transitions: August 1912-February 1913; 2.1 New Stimuli; 2.2 Outcomes; 3 Reflections; 3.1 Reprise; 3.2 Creativity; Works Cited; Bohr's Legacy in Cavity QED; Contents; 1 Introduction. 2 The Tools of Microwave CQED2.1 Circular Rydberg Atoms: The Bohr Model Revived; 2.2 Superconducting Millimetre-Wave Cavities; A Harmonic Oscillator; Coherent States; Cat States; Field Relaxation; Pictorial Representations of Field States; 2.3 The Jaynes and Cummings Interaction; 3 The Quantum Jumps of Light; 3.1 Birth, Life and Death of Individual Photons; 3.2 Quantum Non Demolition Photon Counting; 3.3 Quantum Trajectories; 3.4 Quantum Feedback: Combating the Jumps; 4 Bohr's Complementarity and the Schrödinger Cat; 4.1 Atomic Interferometry and ``Which-Path'' Information; 4.2 A Cat in a Box. 5 ConclusionReferences; From Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger to Bell and Feynman: A New Quantum Revolution?; Contents; 1 The First Quantum Revolution: From Concepts to Technology; 2 The Einstein-Bohr Debate; 2.1 The First Bohr-Einstein Debate: Single Particle Quantum Mechanics; 2.2 The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paper [8]; 2.3 Schrödinger's Reaction [9]; 2.4 Bohr's Rebuttal [10]; 3 Bohm's Version of the EPR Reasoning; 3.1 Bohm's Gedankenexperiment with Photons; 3.2 EPR Reasoning with Photons; 3.3 Discussion; 3.4 Correlations: General Case. 4 How to Complete Quantum Mechanics? Supplementary Parameters4.1 What Is Suggested by the Quantum Formalism Is Weird; 4.2 Supplementary Parameters; 5 Bell's Inequalities; 5.1 Formalism; 5.2 A (Naive) Example of Supplementary Parameters Theory; 5.3 Bell's Inequalities; 6 Conflict with Quantum Mechanics; 6.1 Evidence of a Conflict; 6.2 Discussion: The Locality Condition; 6.3 A Gedankenexperiment with Variable Analyzers: Bell's Locality as a Consequence of Relativistic Causality; 7 Experimental Tests.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Birkhäuser
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 221 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 530.15; Mathematics; Mathematical physics -- Congresses; SCIENCE -- Energy; SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General; SCIENCE -- Physics -- General; Mathematical physics; Science -- Nuclear Physics; Science -- Physics; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory); History of science; Quantum theory; Science -- Mathematical Physics; Mathematical physics; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319143163; 3319143166
• Related ISBNs: 9783319143156; 3319143158
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 12, 2016).
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