100 Years Werner Heisenberg: Works and Impact

Copyright © 2002 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH

100 Years Werner Heisenberg: Works and Impact

Editor(s): Dietrich Papenfuß, Dieter Lüst, Wolfgang P. Schleich

Published Online: 29 NOV 2007

Print ISBN: 9783527403929

Online ISBN: 9783527610853

DOI: 10.1002/9783527610853

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Over 40 renowned scientists from all around the world discuss the work and influence of Werner Heisenberg. The papers result from the symposium held by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Heisenberg's birth, one of the most important physicists of the 20th century and cofounder of modern-day quantum mechanics. Taking atomic and laser physics as their starting point, the scientists illustrate the impact of Heisenberg's theories on astroparticle physics, high-energy physics and string theory right up to processing quantum information.

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      Front Matter (pages I–IX)

    1. Opening-Speech (pages 1–2)

      Wolfgang Frühwald

  3. Plenary Talks

    1. Heisenberg and the Framework of Science Policy (pages 3–7)

      Cathryn Carson

    2. Werner Heisenberg: An Overview of His Life and Work (pages 8–10)

      David C. Cassidy

    3. Observability, Anschaulichkeit and Abstraction: A Journey into Werner Heisenberg's Science and Philosophy (pages 11–29)

      Jan Lacki

    4. 100 Years Werner Heisenberg – Works and Impact (pages 30–31)

      Kazuo Yamazaki

    5. Heisenberg-Einstein Context Principle and the Dynamic Core-Context of Discovery in Physics (pages 32–53)

      Giridhari Lal Pandit

  4. Elementary Particles Theory

    1. On the Large Nc Expansion in Quantum Chromodynamics (pages 54–59)

      William A. Bardeen

    2. Baryon Asymmetry, Dark Matter and the Hidden Sector (pages 60–66)

      Luís Bento and Zurab Berezhiani

    3. Time Asymmetric Quantum Theory and the Z-Boson Mass and Width (pages 67–73)

      Arno R. Bohm and Piotr Kielanowski

    4. The Heisenberg Matrix Formulation of Quantum Field Theory (pages 74–82)

      Stanley J. Brodsky

    5. Nonlocal Structure of Higher Spin Fields (pages 83–88)

      Anton Z. Capri

    6. Fundamental Constants at High Energy (pages 89–95)

      Harald Fritzsch

    7. Quark Number Susceptibilities from Lattice QCD (pages 96–101)

      Rajiv V. Gavai

    8. Elementary Particles on a Dedicated Parallel Computer (pages 102–108)

      Kazuyuki Kanaya

    9. Why Extra Gauge Bosons Should Exist and How to Hunt Them (pages 109–111)

      Arnd Leike

    10. States of Strongly Interacting Matter (pages 112–122)

      Helmut Satz

    11. From Heisenberg to Supersymmetry (pages 123–132)

      Mikhail A. Shifman

    12. The Baryon Density through the (Cosmological) Ages (pages 133–139)

      Gary Steigman

    13. Noncommutativity of Lepton Mass Matrices: Flavor Mixing and CP Violation (pages 140–145)

      Zhi-Zhong Xing

  5. Quantum Physics

    1. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Relations and Quantum Optics (pages 146–153)

      Girish Saran Agarwal

    2. Rubidium Condensate for Quantum Optics Studies (pages 154–164)

      Ennio Arimondo

    3. Interference of Spontaneously Emitted Photons (pages 165–169)

      Almut Beige, Christian Schön and Jiannis Pachos

    4. Quantum Fictitious Forces (pages 170–178)

      I. Białynicki-Birula, M. A. Cirone, J. P. Dahl, T. H. Seligman, F. Straub and W. P. Schleich

    5. Quantum Teleportation (pages 179–184)

      Samuel L. Braunstein

    6. Heisenberg's Introduction of the “Collapse of the Wavepacket” into Quantum Mechanics (pages 185–194)

      Raymond Y. Chiao and Paul G. Kwiat

    7. The Hamiltonian Mass and Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Space-times (pages 195–200)

      Piotr T. Chruściel

    8. The Bohr-Heisenberg Correspondence Principle Viewed from Phase Space (pages 201–206)

      Jens P. Dahl

    9. The Classical Atom: Stabilization of Electronic Trojan Wavepackets (pages 207–212)

      David Farrelly, Ernestine A. Lee and T. Uzer

    10. Heisenberg's Equations in Laser Theory. A Historical Overview (pages 213–216)

      Hermann Haken

    11. Quantum Mechanics from a Heisenberg-Type Equality (pages 217–222)

      Michael J. W. Hall and Marcel Reginatto

    12. Entanglers: Beam Splitters and Thermal Fields (pages 223–227)

      Myung Shik Kim

    13. Enhancing Otto-Mobile Efficiency via Addition of a Quantum Carnot Cycle (pages 228–234)

      Tomáš Opatrný and Marlan O. Scully

    14. Atom Optics – from de Broglie Waves to Heisenberg Ferromagnets (pages 235–240)

      Han Pu, Chris Search, Weiping Zhang and Pierre Meystre

  6. Quantum Field Theory and Gravitation

    1. On Tachyon Condensation in String Theory: Worldsheet Computations (pages 241–245)

      Oleg Andreev

    2. Duality in the Low Dimensional Field Theory (pages 246–250)

      Ivan Andrić and Danijel Jurman

    3. Monopoles in Space-Time Noncommutative Born-Infeld Theory (pages 251–256)

      Paolo Aschieri

    4. Canonical Quantization, Twistors and Relativistic Wave Equations (page 257)

      Iwo Białynicki-Birula

    5. Geometry of Non-Supersymmetric Strings (pages 258–264)

      Anamaría Font

    6. Observing Quanta on a Cosmic Scale (pages 265–269)

      Craig J. Hogan

    7. Supersymmetric Configurations in Gauged Supergravity (pages 270–275)

      Swapna Mahapatra and Harvendra Singh

    8. Anomalies and Schwinger Terms in NCG Field Theory Models (pages 276–281)

      Jouko A. Mickelsson

    9. On Gravitational Interaction of Fermions (pages 282–287)

      Yuri N. Obukhov

    10. New Einstein-Hilbert Type Action for Unity of Nature (pages 288–294)

      Kazunari Shima

    11. The Heisenberg Algebra and Spin (pages 295–299)

      Dmitri Sorokin

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