Festschrift In Honor Of The C N Yang Centenary A Scientific Papers

Author : Fong-ching Chen,Mo-lin Ge,Bin-lin Gu,Kok Khoo Phua,Kenneth Young,Bang-fen Zhu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811264160

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Festschrift In Honor Of The C N Yang Centenary, A: Scientific Papers by Fong-ching Chen,Mo-lin Ge,Bin-lin Gu,Kok Khoo Phua,Kenneth Young,Bang-fen Zhu Pdf

C N Yang is a towering figure of science who has significantly extended human understanding of nature, headed one of the foremost research institutes in physics for three decades, and made great contributions to the advances of Chinese physics. This Festschrift in honor of Professor Yang on his centenary birthday consists of two volumes: Volume A consists of general essays concerning Professor Yang the person, as well as the authors' impressions and reminiscences of him, which are mainly (but not exclusively) in Chinese. This volume, that is Volume B, consists of over thirty scientific papers in English on subjects broadly related to his work and contributed by two different groups: Professor Yang's colleagues, friends, and former students; and graduates from the Tsinghua University Physics Department or Institute for Advanced Study, who have come under the influence of Professor Yang and are now established in their own careers; review papers presented at a Symposium held in his honor in 2021 are also included. It is hoped that this Festschrift can serve as a fit tribute to Professor Yang's lifelong achievements, and also increase public awareness of the many different sides of this giant — his life, his personality, his work, his influence, as well as what he strives for.

Author : Salvatore Califano
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642281808

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Pathways to Modern Chemical Physics by Salvatore Califano Pdf

In this historical volume Salvatore Califano traces the developments of ideas and theories in physical and theoretical chemistry throughout the 20th century. This seldom-told narrative provides details of topics from thermodynamics to atomic structure, radioactivity and quantum chemistry. Califano’s expertise as a physical chemist allows him to judge the historical developments from the point of view of modern chemistry. This detailed and unique historical narrative is fascinating for chemists working in the fields of physical chemistry and is also a useful resource for science historians who will enjoy access to material not previously dealt with in a coherent way.

Author : Chen Ning Yang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400877287

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Elementary Particles by Chen Ning Yang Pdf

Dr. Yang reviews the history of our knowledge of the elementary particles, and shows how theory and experiment interact to extend human knowledge. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691215112

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The Dawning of Gauge Theory by Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh Pdf

During the course of this century, gauge invariance has slowly emerged from being an incidental symmetry of electromagnetism to being a fundamental geometrical principle underlying the four known fundamental physical interactions. The development has been in two stages. In the first stage (1916-1956) the geometrical significance of gauge-invariance gradually came to be appreciated and the original abelian gauge-invariance of electromagnetism was generalized to non-abelian gauge invariance. In the second stage (1960-1975) it was found that, contrary to first appearances, the non-abelian gauge-theories provided exactly the framework that was needed to describe the nuclear interactions (both weak and strong) and thus provided a universal framework for describing all known fundamental interactions. In this work, Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh describes the former phase. O'Raifeartaigh first illustrates how gravitational theory and quantum mechanics played crucial roles in the reassessment of gauge theory as a geometric principle and as a framework for describing both electromagnetism and gravitation. He then describes how the abelian electromagnetic gauge-theory was generalized to its present non-abelian form. The development is illustrated by including a selection of relevant articles, many of them appearing here for the first time in English, notably by Weyl, Schrodinger, Klein, and London in the pre-war years, and by Pauli, Shaw, Yang-Mills, and Utiyama after the war. The articles illustrate that the reassessment of gauge-theory, due in a large measure to Weyl, constituted a major philosophical as well as technical advance.

Author : Claudio Chamon,Mark O. Goerbig,Roderich Moessner,Leticia F. Cugliandolo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198785781

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Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter Physics by Claudio Chamon,Mark O. Goerbig,Roderich Moessner,Leticia F. Cugliandolo Pdf

Topological condensed matter physics is a recent arrival among the disciplines of modern physics of a distinctive and substantive nature. Its roots reach far back, but much of its current importance derives from exciting developments in the last half-century. The field is advancing rapidly, growing explosively, and diversifying greatly. There is now a zoo of topological phenomena-the quantum spin Hall effect, topological insulators, Coulomb spin liquids, non-Abelian anyonic statistics and their potential application in topological quantum computing, to name but a few-as well as an increasingly sophisticated set of concepts and methods underpinning their understanding. The aim of this Les Houches Summer School was to present an overview of this field, along with a sense of its origins and its place on the map of advances in fundamental physics. The school comprised a set of basic lectures (Part I) aimed at a pedagogical introduction to the fundamental concepts, which was accompanied by more advanced lectures (Part II) covering individual topics at the forefront of today's research in condensed matter physics.

Author : Gordon Fraser
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191578663

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Cosmic Anger by Gordon Fraser Pdf

This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a vital focus of Third World science which remains as his monument. A staunch Muslim, he was ashamed of the decline of science in the heritage of Islam, and struggled doggedly to restore it to its former glory. Undermined by his excommunication, these valiant efforts were doomed.

Author : Peter D. Johnson,Guangyong Xu,Wei-Guo Yin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319342967

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Iron-Based Superconductivity by Peter D. Johnson,Guangyong Xu,Wei-Guo Yin Pdf

This volume presents an in-depth review of experimental and theoretical studies on the newly discovered Fe-based superconductors. Following the Introduction, which places iron-based superconductors in the context of other unconventional superconductors, the book is divided into three sections covering sample growth, experimental characterization, and theoretical understanding. To understand the complex structure-property relationships of these materials, results from a wide range of experimental techniques and theoretical approaches are described that probe the electronic and magnetic properties and offer insight into either itinerant or localized electronic states. The extensive reference lists provide a bridge to further reading. Iron-Based Superconductivity is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers active in the fields of condensed matter physics and materials science in general, particularly those with an interest in correlated metals, frustrated spin systems, superconductivity, and competing orders.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:469077512

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History Remembers Scientists of the Past by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chen Ning Yang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812563675

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Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary by Chen Ning Yang Pdf

A remarkable personal and professional chronicle by one of today's leading physicists, this is a collection of Chen Ning Yang's personally selected papers supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Including previously unpublished or hard-to-find works, this volume contains Yang's important papers on statistical physics, nuclear forces, and particle physics. Among them are his seminal work with T D Lee on the nonconservation of parity, for which they won the Nobel Prize, and his work with R L Mills, which led to modern gauge theories with their exciting prospects for the broad unification of field theories.The commentaries were written especially for this volume and provide a fascinating account of Yang's development as a physicist as well as a look at many important physicists of the 20th century. They trace the development of Yang's interests and ideas from his graduate school days to the present, showing how he worked with his colleagues and how their physics came into being.Together, the papers and commentaries in this unique collection comprise a powerful personal statement, shedding light on both the intellectual development of a great physicist and on the nature of scientific inquiry.

Author : Emilio Segrè
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè by Emilio Segrè Pdf

Born in Italy to a well-to-do Jewish family, Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) became Enrico Fermi’s first graduate student in 1928, contributed to the discovery of slow neutrons and was appointed director of the University of Palermo’s physics laboratory in 1936. While visiting the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California in 1938, he learned that he had been dismissed from his Palermo post by Mussolini’s Fascist regime. Ernest O. Lawrence hired him to work on the cyclotron at Berkeley with Luis Alvarez, Edwin McMillan, and Glenn Seaborg. Segrè was one of the first to join Oppenheimer at Los Alamos, where he became a group leader on the Manhattan Project. In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the antiproton. He was a professor of physics at UC Berkeley from 1946 until 1972. “[A] readable, absorbing, interesting autobiography... A valuable contribution by a person who witnessed the development of much of modern nuclear physics. Segrè’s description of the historic neutron experiments performed in Rome during the mid-1930s by Enrico Fermi’s group, of which Segrè was a member, is of inestimable worth.” — Glenn T. Seaborg, Physics Today “A Mind Always in Motion is Emilio Segrè’s account — published four years after his death in 1989 — of his personal life and his life in physics... It is absorbing, moving in places and frequently revealing. Segrè noted in his preface, ‘I have not sought to display manners and tact I never had, and I have tried to treat myself no better than any one else.’ He ably succeeded in these purposes.” — Daniel J. Kevles, Nature “For general readers with an interest in the history of nuclear physics, Segrè... is among the most personable witnesses.” — Publishers Weekly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:909898274

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History Remembers Scientists of the 20th Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bruce C. Berndt,Ken Ono
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781475760446

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Number Theory and Modular Forms by Bruce C. Berndt,Ken Ono Pdf

Robert A. Rankin, one of the world's foremost authorities on modular forms and a founding editor of The Ramanujan Journal, died on January 27, 2001, at the age of 85. Rankin had broad interests and contributed fundamental papers in a wide variety of areas within number theory, geometry, analysis, and algebra. To commemorate Rankin's life and work, the editors have collected together 25 papers by several eminent mathematicians reflecting Rankin's extensive range of interests within number theory. Many of these papers reflect Rankin's primary focus in modular forms. It is the editors' fervent hope that mathematicians will be stimulated by these papers and gain a greater appreciation for Rankin's contributions to mathematics. This volume would be an inspiration to students and researchers in the areas of number theory and modular forms.

Author : Farish A. Noor,Yoginder Sikand,Martin van Bruinessen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789053567104

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The Madrasa in Asia by Farish A. Noor,Yoginder Sikand,Martin van Bruinessen Pdf

Summary: "Since the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the traditional Islamic schools known as the madrasa have frequently been portrayed as hotbeds of terrorism. For much longer, the madrasa has been considered by some as a backward and petrified impediment to social progress. However, for an important segment of the poor Muslim populations of Asia, madrasas constitute the only accessible form of education. This volume presents an overview of the madrasas in countries such as China, Indonesia, Malayisia, India and Pakistan."--Publisher description.

Author : Friedrich W. Hehl
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Science
ISBN : 1848167261

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Gauge Theories of Gravitation by Friedrich W. Hehl Pdf

Foreword by T W B Kibble, FRSIn the last five decades, the gauge approach to gravity has represented a research area of increasing importance for our understanding of the physics of fundamental interactions. A full clarification of the gauge dynamics of gravity is expected to be the last missing link to the hidden structure of a consistent unification of all the fundamental interactions, based on the gauge principle. The aim of the present reprint volume, with commentaries by Milutin Blagojević and Friedrich W Hehl, is to introduce graduate and advanced undergraduate students of theoretical or mathematical physics, or any other interested researcher, to the field of classical gauge theories of gravity.This is not just an ordinary reprint volume; it is a guide to the literature on gauge theories of gravity. The reader is encouraged first to study the introductory commentaries and to become familiar with the basic content of the reprints and related ideas, then he/she can choose to read a specific reprint or reprints, and after that he/she should return again to the text and explore the additional literature, etc. The interaction is intended to be more complex than just starting with commentaries and ending with reprints.

Author : Eckehard W. Mielke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319297347

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Geometrodynamics of Gauge Fields by Eckehard W. Mielke Pdf

This monograph aims to provide a unified, geometrical foundation of gauge theories of elementary particle physics. The underlying geometrical structure is unfolded in a coordinate-free manner via the modern mathematical notions of fibre bundles and exterior forms. Topics such as the dynamics of Yang-Mills theories, instanton solutions and topological invariants are included. By transferring these concepts to local space-time symmetries, generalizations of Einstein's theory of gravity arise in a Riemann-Cartan space with curvature and torsion. It provides the framework in which the (broken) Poincaré gauge theory, the Rainich geometrization of the Einstein-Maxwell system, and higher-dimensional, non-abelian Kaluza-Klein theories are developed. Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, concepts of spontaneous symmetry breaking in gravity have come again into focus, and, in this revised edition, these will be exposed in geometric terms. Quantizing gravity remains an open issue: formulating it as a de Sitter type gauge theory in the spirit of Yang-Mills, some new progress in its topological form is presented. After symmetry breaking, Einstein’s standard general relativity with cosmological constant emerges as a classical background. The geometrical structure of BRST quantization with non-propagating topological ghosts is developed in some detail.