Librería Científica
0 item
Categories
quantum-nonlocality-yanchilin
quantum-nonlocality-yanchilin

Quantum nonlocality

Autor:
ISBN: 978-5-396-00179-4
Año: 2010
Idioma: English
Encuadernación: Rústica

QUICK OVERVIEW

120 páginas

How one electron can be in two remote areas simultaneously? How can we “cook up” a quantum state? What is described by wave function and when its reduction takes place? How long is a quantum jump and is it a reversible process? How does quantum nonlocality work? Traditional textbooks on quantum mechanics pay low attention to those intriguing questions and the reader cannot understand what stands behind the mathematical apparatus of microworld.

The author hopes that the reading of this book will change your attitude; you will be ready to read Feynman’s lectures on quantum mechanics as a captivating novel.

For college students, scholars and teachers.

S/95.00

Categoría:

Description

Content

Chapter 1. What can we expect from quantum me mechanics?
1.1. Who was the first physicist to blame quantum mechanics for a sin of nonlocality?
1.2. Any physical theory must be a local theory! Or, maybe, not?
1.3. What kind of non-local interaction is allowed in quantum mechanics and what kind is forbidden?
1.4. A quantum state cannot be observed directly
1.5. Spin as angular momentum
1.6. What is the spin projection?
1.7. Quantum nonlocality in pure form
1.8. Is it possible to outflank nonlocality?

Chapter 2. Discrete motion as a key to undestanding of quantum processes
2.1. Is there any alternative to continuous motion?
2.2. May a single particle be in two remote places simultaneously?
2.3. Three rules for discrete motion

Chapter 3. Quantum mechanics made simple
3.1. Pictorial presentation of quantum motion
3.2. Probability density
3.3. How probabilities can be summed up?
3.4. The law of addition for probabilities or why physicists use complex numbers in quantum mechanics
3.5. Wave ?function is a mathematic image of quantum state
3.6. Object’s quantum state as a history
3.7. How we find a quantum state and build wave psi-function

Chapter 4. Why Einstein refuted quantum physics?
4.1. Einstein puts a pointblank question
4.2. Probability function for a white ball in a black box
4.3. Probability function for a quantum object
4.4. Einstein’s position
4.5. Experiment with clock-work and further events
4.6. Why the exact coordinate is a concept without any sense
4.7. Nonlocality as a key moment of dispute

Chapter 5. Quantum logic
5.1. Wave-particle dualism
5.2. Can the quantum state be changed without impact to the object?
5.3. Wheeler’s experiment with deferred choice
5.4. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Chapter 6. Einstein ? Podolsky ? Rosen experiment
6.1. Experiment formulation
6.2. Bohm’s experiment
6.3. Photon polarization
6.4. A conclusive experiment
6.5. A trap of reductionism: only atoms and only void

Chapter 7. Quantum exotica
7.1. What can we expect from a good interpretation?
7.2. Why does interference disappear?
7.3. A quantum eraser
7.4. Quantum cyborgs

x