Quantum Weirdness
$71.69
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2020
Summary
Delving into Quantum Weirdness: A Mathematical Journey
Quantum mechanics provides incredibly accurate descriptions of nature and powerful predictive capabilities. Analyzing quantum systems and interpreting them reveals surprising phenomena, like “interaction-free measurement”—detecting an object’s characteristics without touching it—or teleporting an atomic state across vast distances. The results can be truly bizarre.
Quantum mechanics is a subtle subject, often involving c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198854364 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198854366 |
| Author: | William J. Mullin |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 136mm x 11mm |
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Like a good teacher, Mullin carefully builds the complexity of his topic gradually, all the while introducing the concepts and tools needed for each succeeding stage… Recommended.
Like a good teacher, Mullin carefully builds the complexity of his topic gradually, all the while introducing the concepts and tools needed for each succeeding stage… Recommended. * CHOICE *
About The Author
William J. Mullin
William J. Mullin is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts. His areas of research are quantum fluids and solids and low temperature physics. Most recently, his research has focused on Bose-Einstein condensation and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. Mullin has authored 100 journal publications and 3 books and has been a visiting scientist for extended periods at the University of Sussex, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the École normale supérieure, Paris.
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