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A Garden of Quanta : Essays in Honor of Hiroshi Ezawa /

This collection of reviews and essays about the wide-ranging developments in the areas of quantum physics has mostly been written at the graduate level, but some are accessible to advanced undergraduates. They should serve as good introductions for beginning graduate students in quantum physics who...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Arafune, J. (Jiro), Ezawa, Hiroshi, 1932-2023
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Professor Hiroshi Ezawa / K. Watanabe
  • 1. Quantum mechanics. Direct observation of the microscopic world by using phase shifts of electron waves / A. Tonomura
  • Electron correlations in atoms: hyperspherical approach to multiply excited states of atoms / T. Morishita and C.D. Lin
  • Bifurcation of periodic instantons and quantum-classical transition in a biaxial anisotropy nano-ferromagnet / Y.-H. Nie [and others]
  • 2. Path integrals and stochastic processes. The Feynman path integral: an historical slice / J.R. Klauder
  • Time-sliced approximation to path integral and Lie-Trotter-Kato product formula / T. Ichinose
  • Innovation approach to some problems in quantum dynamics / T. Hida and Si Si
  • Feynman paths, sticky walls, white noise / L. Streit
  • White noise path integrals: applications in polymer entanglement / C.C. Bernido and M.V. Carpio-Bernido
  • Double strata of time for construction of path-space measure for stochastic differential equations / T. Nakamura
  • Olbers' paradox, wireless telephones, and Poisson random sets. Is the universe finite? / S. Heath and L. Shepp
  • 3. Quantum field theory. Nonrelativistic QED at large momentum of photons / F. Hiroshima
  • Enhanced binding in models of nonrelativistic quantum field theory / A. Arai
  • Recent developments in mathematical methods for models in non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics / M. Hirokawa
  • Localization in quantum field theory / S. Nagamachi and E. Br|ning
  • Remarks on the commutator of quark mass matrices / M. Kobayashi
  • Probing extra dimensions with neutrino oscillations / C.S. Lam
  • BPS wall in N = 2 SUSY nonlinear sigma model with Eguchi-Hanson manifold / M. Arai [and others]
  • Current algebra approach to string theory / M. Hatsuda and W. Siegel
  • 4. Statistical mechanics. Statistical mechanics of thermodynamic processes / J. Fr̲hlich [and others]
  • How to formulate non-equilibrium local states in QFT?
  • General characterization and extension to curved spacetime
  • / J. Ojima
  • Some applications of renormalization group analysis / H. Watanabe
  • Seven-vertex solutions of the colored Yang-Baxter equation / S.-K. Wang and K. Wu
  • Brownian motion as a model for B-cell movement / F.W. Wiegel
  • The Lorentz force and the Casimir force at finite temperature and Casimir entropy / M. Revzen, K. Nakamura and A. Mann
  • 5. Mathematical problems. Information dynamics and its application to recognition process / M. Ohya
  • Amenability for weighted Hopf C*-algebras / Y. Nakagami
  • The Bessel equation and dissipation / E. Alfinito and G. Vitiello
  • 6. History. Simon Stevin and the cultural revolution in the 16th century / Y. Yamamoto.