Oriols, Xavier,
Applied Bohmian mechanics : from nanoscale systems to cosmology / Xavier Oriols, Jordi Mompart. - Second edition. - 1 online resource.
Most textbooks explain quantum mechanics as a story where each step follows naturally from the one preceding it. However, the development of quantum mechanics was exactly the opposite. It was a zigzag route, full of personal disputes where scientists were forced to abandon well-established classical concepts and to explore new and imaginative pathways. Some of the explored routes were successful in providing new mathematical formalisms capable of predicting experiments at the atomic scale. However, even such successful routes were painful enough, so that relevant scientists like Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrdinger decided not to support them. In this book, the authors demonstrate the huge practical utility of another of these routes in explaining quantum phenomena in many different research fields. Bohmian mechanics, the formulation of the quantum theory pioneered by Louis de Broglie and David Bohm, offers an alternative mathematical formulation of quantum phenomena in terms of quantum trajectories. Novel computational tools to explore physical scenarios that are currently computationally inaccessible, such as many-particle solutions of the Schrdinger equation, can be developed from it.
9780429294747 0429294743 9781000650105 1000650103 9781000650334 1000650332 9781000650563 1000650561
Quantum theory--Mathematics.
Quantum trajectories.
SCIENCE / Energy.
SCIENCE / Mechanics / General.
SCIENCE / Physics / General.
SCIENCE / Mathematical Physics
SCIENCE / Physics
SCIENCE / Quantum Theory
QC174.12
530.12
Applied Bohmian mechanics : from nanoscale systems to cosmology / Xavier Oriols, Jordi Mompart. - Second edition. - 1 online resource.
Most textbooks explain quantum mechanics as a story where each step follows naturally from the one preceding it. However, the development of quantum mechanics was exactly the opposite. It was a zigzag route, full of personal disputes where scientists were forced to abandon well-established classical concepts and to explore new and imaginative pathways. Some of the explored routes were successful in providing new mathematical formalisms capable of predicting experiments at the atomic scale. However, even such successful routes were painful enough, so that relevant scientists like Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrdinger decided not to support them. In this book, the authors demonstrate the huge practical utility of another of these routes in explaining quantum phenomena in many different research fields. Bohmian mechanics, the formulation of the quantum theory pioneered by Louis de Broglie and David Bohm, offers an alternative mathematical formulation of quantum phenomena in terms of quantum trajectories. Novel computational tools to explore physical scenarios that are currently computationally inaccessible, such as many-particle solutions of the Schrdinger equation, can be developed from it.
9780429294747 0429294743 9781000650105 1000650103 9781000650334 1000650332 9781000650563 1000650561
Quantum theory--Mathematics.
Quantum trajectories.
SCIENCE / Energy.
SCIENCE / Mechanics / General.
SCIENCE / Physics / General.
SCIENCE / Mathematical Physics
SCIENCE / Physics
SCIENCE / Quantum Theory
QC174.12
530.12