| 責任表示 |
Bertrand Duplantier, Jean-Michel Raimond, Vincent Rivasseau, editors |
| シリーズ |
Progress in mathematical physics / editors-in-chief, Anne Boutet de Monvel, Gerald Kaiser ; v. 55 . Poincaré seminar ; 2007
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| データ種別 |
図書 |
| 出版情報 |
Basel : Birkhäuser , c2009 |
| 本文言語 |
英語 |
| 大きさ |
viii, 193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| 概要 |
The Poincaré Seminar is held at the Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris. The goal of this seminar is to provide up-to-date information about general topics of great interest in physics. Both theoretical...and experimental results are covered, with some historical background. Particular care is devoted to the pedagogical nature of presentation. The Poincaré Seminar "The Spin" focussed on how this once mysterious quantum reality called spin has become ubiquitous in modern physics from the most theoretical aspects down to the most practical applications. The first and more theoretical part of the book starts with a detailed presentation of the notion of spin by leading world expert Jüet;rg Fröet;hlich. He reviews its historical development in quantum mechanics and its increasing relevance to quantum field theory and condensed matter. The next two chapters discuss the exotic anyon particles. They carry a nontrivial fractional spin, hence lie in between the integer spin particles, the Bosons, and the half integer spin particles, the Fermions. Nobel laureate Franck Wilczek gives an enticing introduction to this subject that he pioneered and Stephane Ouvry gives a more in depth review of the corresponding mathematical formalism and its relevance in the context of the quantum Hall effect. The second part of the book aims at the presentation of the most advanced current experiments and applications of the notion of spin. Gerald Gabrielse reviews the extremely precise measurements of the fine structure constant and the electron magnetic moment. This is followed by a presentation on spintronics by Nobel laureate Albert Fert and his collaborators Pierre Sénéor, Vincent Cros and Frédéric Petroff. Spintronics is the new branch of electronics in which the spin of the moving electrons is controlled and it has already lead to momentous developments, e.g. by increasing spectacularly the capacity of magnetic memory storage devices. In the last chapter, Pierre-Jean Nacher explains the history and basic physics of magnetic resonance imaging and its application to medical diagnosis. Book jacket.続きを見る
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