Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Theory [electronic resource] /

General Problems and Crucial Experiments -- Are Coherent States the Natural Language of Quantum Theory? -- The Classical Behaviour of Measuring Instruments -- A Continuous Superselection Rule as a Model of Classical Measuring Apparatus in Quantum Mechanics -- Quantum Interference Effect for Two Atoms Radiating a Single Photon -- Neutron Interferometry and Quantum Mechanics -- An Attempt at a Unified Description of Microscopic and Macroscopic Systems -- On the Quantum Theory of Continuous Measurements -- Conditional Expectations on Jordan Algebras -- Quantization and Stochastic Processes -- Stochastic Quantization of Gauge Fields and Constrained Systems -- Brownian Motion, Markov Cosurfaces, Higgs Fields -- Stochastic Description of Supersymmetric Fields with Values in a Manifold -- Quantum Stochastic Calculus in Fock space: A Review -- Quantum Markov Processes Driven by Bose Noise -- Stochastic Interpretation of Emission and Absorption of the Quantum of Action -- Probabilistic Expression for the Solution of the Dirac Equation in Fourier Space -- Are Dirac Electrons Faster than Light? -- Sojourn Times and First Hitting Times in Stochastic Mechanics -- Chaotic Behaviour in Quantum Mechanics -- Quantum Systems Periodically Perturbed in Time -- Chaotic Ionization of Highly-Excited Hydrogen Atoms by a Microwave Electric Field -- Possible Evidence of Deterministic Chaos for the Sinusoidally-Driven Weakly-Bound Electron -- Quantization of Non-Integrable Systems: the Hydrogen Atom in a Magnetic Field -- Quantum Ergodicity and Chaos -- Microscopic and Macroscopic Levels of Description New Techniques and Results -- Some Fundamental Properties of the Ground State of Atoms and Molecules -- Mass/Energy Gap Associated to Symmetry Breaking: A Generalized Goldstone Theorem for Long Range Interactions -- Embedding as a Description of the Relation Between Macro- and Microphysics -- Some Applications of Semigroups -- N-Level Systems Interacting with Bosons: Semiclassical Limits -- Bose-Einstein Condensation in Some Interacting Systems -- General Aspects of Gauge Theories -- Charge, Anomalies and Index Theory -- Adiabatic Phase Shifts for Neutrons and Photons -- The Gauge Principle in Modern Physics -- Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras and Quantum Physics -- The Spins of Cyons and Dyons -- Beyond the Hall Effect: Pratical Engineering from Relativistic Quantum Field Theory -- Generalized Aharonov-Bohm Experiments with Neutrons -- Round-Table Discussion on the Aharonov-Bohm Effect -- The Aharonov-Bohm Effect is Real Physics not Ideal Physics -- Again About an Old Stuff: The Aharonov-Bohm “Effect” -- Against the Existence of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect -- Theories Without AB Effect Misrepresent the Dynamics of the Electromagnetic Field -- Some Cases of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect: Electron Scattering on Magnetic Strings -- Global Gauge Invariance in Two-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics -- Gravity in Quantum Mechanics -- Stability of Matter -- Ihe Gravitational Phase Transition -- Gravitational and Rotational Effects on Superconductors -- Quantum Fields on Manifolds: an Interplay Between Quantum Theory, Statistical Thermodynamics and General Relativity -- Quantum Field Theory in Gravitational Background -- Classical Scattering Theory on the Schwarzschild Metric and the Construction of Quantum Linear Fields on Black Holes -- The Stochastic versus the Euclidean Approach to Quantum Fields on a Static Space-Time -- Quantum Theory in Vector Bundles -- Anomalies and Their Cancellation -- Remarks about Metric Tensors on Fractal Structures -- Short Communications -- A New Gauge Without Any Ghost for Yang-Mills Theory -- Unitary Formalism for Time-Dependent Problems -- Finite Temperature Quantum Electrical Network Theory -- Two Remarks on the Physical Content of Stochastic Mechanics -- The LambShift for Resonances: Complex Dilations and Coupling Constant Thresholds in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics -- Energy Density and Roughening in the 3-D Ising Ferromagnet -- Bose-Einstein Condensation of Free Photons -- Variational Principle in Quantum Mechanics -- Geometric Quantum Mechanics -- Spectral Sum Rules for Confinement Potentials -- Metrology of Space-Time Dimension -- Chronological Disordering and the Absence of Correlations between Infinitely Separated States -- On Solutions of Quantum Stochastic Integral Equations.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Gorini, Vittorio. editor., Frigerio, Alberto. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Boston, MA : Springer US, 1986
Subjects:	Physics., Elementary particles (Physics)., Quantum field theory., Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5221-1
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