Localizability and Space in Quantum Physics [E-Book] / edited by Henri Bacry
This book discusses in detail the concept of light quanta (photons) and presents a historical survey of the ideas involved. It analyses critically the principles of complementarity and correspondence as well as the quantization procedure. The work of Wigner, Newton and Wightman on localized states i...
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Personal Name(s): | Bacry, Henri, editor |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer,
1988
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Physical Description: |
VII, 84 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9783540459088 |
DOI: |
10.1007/BFb0019319 |
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Lecture Notes in Physics ;
308 |
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- Contents: Introduction
- Historical Sketch on the Nature of Light
- The Correspondence Principle, the Wave Corpuscle Duality, the Complementarity Principle and the Slit Experiment
- The Spin Quantization Problem
- Localizability. The Photon Scandal. Quantization Helpless!- A Position Operator for the Photon. Giving up the Complementary Principle
- Departing from the Newton-Wigner-Wightman Axioms
- Is Minkowski Space-time Suitable for Particle Physics?- Appendix A. The Symplectic Structure of Coadjoint Orbits
- Appendix B. The Quantization of the Sphere S2
- Appendix C. The Angular Momentum of an Electric Charge in the Monopole Field (an Application of the Noether Theorem)
- Appendix D. Non Localizability of the Classical Massless Particle with Helicity
- Appendix E. The Maxwell Equations and the Poincaré Group
- Appendix F. The Zitterbewegung. The Pryce-Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation
- Quotations
- Index of Names.