The QM Notebook
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BACKGROUND
Relating Classical and Quantuum Concepts
Action At A Distance
Java Physlets (awesome!)
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Hot Topics:
DNA Computing Workshop 
Quantum Computing With Molecules 
Gisin's Twin Photon Experiment 

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Many World's View: Massive and Massless Beings
100 Years of Particle Physics
Niels Bohr addressed certain paradoxes in his work. 
(i) How can energy be conserved when some energy changes are continuous and some are discontinuous,
i.e. change by quantum amounts.
(ii) How does the electron know when to emit radiation?
 The Golden Age of Quantuum Mechanics
1856 Maxwell
1859 Kirchoff
1875 Lorentz
1879 Stefan
1884 Boltzmann
1896 Wein
1900 Planck
1901 Rici
1901 Levi-Civita
1905 Einstein
1913 Bohr
1924 Bose
1924 deBroglie
1925 Dirac
1926 Schrödinger
1926 Born
1927 Heisenberg
1928 Pauli
1930 Wigner
1932 Von Neumann
 
Dealt Card Symbols:
L =  leftmost 
M =  middle 
R =  rightmost 
Electron {x,y,z} Spin
1  = White Card = '+' 
0  = Black Card = '-'
Boolean Operators
'&' = AND,
'|' = OR,
'!' = NOT
'->' = IMPLIES
Condition Symbols:
A -> L =  M
!A  -> L = !M
B -> M = R
!B -> M = !R
C -> L = !R
C -> L =  R
Results:
1) P( A &  B &  C) = 0
2) P( A & B & !C) = 2/8
3) P(A & !B &  C) = 2/8
4) P(!A &  B &  C) = 2/8
5) P(!A & ! B & !C) = 2/8
Warning: Reducing these fractions may violate causality!
Bell's Game of Black and White Cards
(simulation opportunity)
 
Three Cards: Left Middle Right
Three Conditions: A B C
Case
Dealer
Conditions
Number
L M R
A B C
1
0 0 0
1 1 0
2
0 0 1
1 0 1
3
0 1 0
0 0 0
4
0 1 1
0 1 1
5
1 0 0
0 1 1
6
1 0 1
0 0 0
7
1 1 0
1 0 1
8
1 1 1
1 1 0
 
Who:  John S. Bell
Where: Physics FAQ
Run by: John Blanton, Scott Chase & Usenet
Key Facts: Notes, History
Resources: Physics Newsgroups
 
Bell's Inequality Principle
 
 
Who:  Mike Matthews
Where: JILA at the University of Colorado
Run by: CU & NIST
Key Facts: Rubidium, BEC, BEC Definition
Resources: CU & NIST
 
Bose Einstein Condensates in Rubidium
(BEC's are a new form of matter)
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Doublet State Reference: Yarkony 
Double Slit Experiment 
Schrödinger's Cat


Photons: 
Entanglement,
Frustration,
Interferometry
 
 

Albert E. Moyer of the Department of History at Virginia Tech, spoke on "Prof. Henry, Mr. Faraday, and the Hunt for Electromagnetic Induction." He explained how, on different sides of the Atlantic but about the same time, Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry announced success in a quest that had preoccupied the scientific community for a decade: coaxing electricity from magnetism. "Mutual induction," what Faraday and Henry had identified in the early 1830s, would turn out to be not only a foundational concept in the physics of electricity and magnetism but also the principle behind the technology of electrical transformers and generators -- two mainstays of industrialization. Although Faraday's breakthrough in London and Henry's in Albany might appear to be classic examples of "independent discovery," they were not. The two natural philosophers shared a similar orientation toward their research and, moreover, a distinctive laboratory instrument: Henry's new, powerful electromagnet.  Thus, the story of Henry's and Faraday's search for induction illuminates not only the workings of Victorian science but also the crucial part that an instrument -- the unadorned hardware -- can play in scientific inquiry.
Quantuum Phases, Transitions, and Fluctuations 
Quantum Melting of Electronic and Magnetic Systems 
Proton, Deuteron, and Triton Accelerators 
Accelerator Links, SLAC, BNL, etc 
MIT - for biomedical therapy 
South African Cyclotrons
Acoustic Properties of Common Materials Low Temperature, High Pressure Regimes
Velocity Amplifiers (veeAmps) 
basic configurations 
driver configurations
Sonoluminescence 
SL Virtual Symposium 
Virtual Web Apparatus: SLA 1