Quantum Reprogramming

Quantum Reprogramming

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Post E.J.
Springer
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Many, perhaps most textbooks of quantum mechanics present a Copenhagen, single system angle; fewer present the subject matter as an instrument for treating ensembles, but the two methods have been silently coexisting since the mid-Thirties. This lingering dichotomy of purpose for a major physical discipline has much shrouded further insights into the foundations of quantum theory.
Quantum Reprogramming resolves this long-standing dichotomy by examining the mutual relation between single systems and ensembles, assigning each its own tools for treating the subject at hand: i.e., Schrödinger-Dirac methods for ensembles versus period integrals for single systems.
A unified treatment of integer and fractional quantum Hall effects and a finite description of the electron's anomalies are mentioned as measures of justification for the chosen procedure of resolving an old-time dichotomy. The methods of presentation are, in part, elementary, with repetitive references needed to delineate differences with respect to standard methods. The parts on period integrals are developed with a perspective on elementary methods in physics, thus leading up to some standard results of de Rham theory and algebraic topology.
Audience: Students of physics, mathematics, philosophers as well as outsiders with a general interest in the conceptual development of physics will find useful reading in these pages, which will stimulate further inquiry and study.
EAN 9789048145751
ISBN 9048145759
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Springer
Publication date December 7, 2010
Pages 322
Language English
Dimensions 235 x 155
Country Netherlands
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Post E.J.
Illustrations XIV, 322 p.
Edition Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1995
Series Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science