This fourteenth volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series is devoted to Niels Bohr, his foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory and their continuing importance today. This book contains the following chapters: - Tomas Bohr, Keeping Things Open; - Olivier Darrigol, Bohr's Trilogy of 1913; -John Heilbron, The Mind that Created the Bohr Atom; - Serge Haroche & Jean-Michel Raimond, Bohr's Legacy in Cavity QED; - Alain Aspect, From Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger to Bell and Feynman: a New Quantum Revolution. ; - Antoine Browaeys, Interacting Cold Rydberg Atoms: A Toy Many-Body System; - Michel Bitbol & Stefano Osnaghi, Bohr´s Complementarity and Kant´s Epistemology. Dating from their origin in lectures to a broad scientific audience these seven chapters are of high educational value. This volume is of general interest to physicists, mathematicians and historians.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Bertrand Duplantier
Jean-Michel Raimond
Vincent Rivasseau
Olivier Darrigol

Thema

Naturwissenschaft: Philosophie & Theorie
Physik: Allgemein, Teilchen- & Hochenergiephysik, Mathematische Physik

Kollektion

Progress in Mathematical Physics

Zielgruppe

Research

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Erscheinungsland

Schweiz

Format

Buch (Hardcover)

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