Niels Bohr, 1913-2013: Poincar� Seminar 2013

by Olivier Darrigol (Editor), Bertrand Duplantier (Editor), Jean-Michel Raimond (Editor), Vincent Rivasseau (Editor)

Overview

This fourteenth volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series is devoted to Niels Bohr, his foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory and their continuing importance today. This book contains the following chapters: - Tomas Bohr, Keeping Things Open; - Olivier Darrigol, Bohr's Trilogy of 1913; -John Heilbron, The Mind that Created the Bohr Atom; - Serge Haroche & Jean-Michel Raimond, Bohr's Legacy in Cavity QED; - Alain Aspect, From Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger to Bell and Feynman: a New Quantum Revolution?; - Antoine Browaeys, Interacting Cold Rydberg Atoms: A Toy Many-Body System; - Michel Bitbol & Stefano Osnaghi, Bohr´s Complementarity and Kant´s Epistemology. Dating from their origin in lectures to a broad scientific audience these seven chapters are of high educational value.

This volume is of general interest to physicists, mathematicians and historians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319143156
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	04/08/2016
Series:	Progress in Mathematical Physics , #68
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	221
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword.- Keeping Things Open, Tomas Bohr.- Bohr's Trilogy of 1913, Olivier Darrigol.- The Mind that Created the Bohr atom, John Heilbron.- Bohr's Legacy in Cavity QED, Serge Haroche & Jean-Michel Raimond.- From Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger to Bell and Feynman: A New Quantum Revolution?, Alain Aspect.- Interacting Cold Rydberg Atoms: A Toy Many-Body System, Antoine Browaeys.- Bohr's Complementarity and Kant's Epistemology, Michel Bitbol & Stefano Osnaghi.

Editorial Reviews

The book under review is the product of a Paris seminar devoted to the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the publication in 1913 of Niels Bohr’s three seminal papers on what is known nowadays as the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom. It collects several essays presented in this seminar that are quite accessible to a broad section of readers, either mathematicians, physicists or philosophers.” (Felipe Zaldivar, MAA Reviews, maa.org, August, 2016)

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