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Book SynopsisMotivates students by challenging them with real-life applications of the somtimes esoteric aspects of quantum mechanics that they are learning.
Offers completely original excerices developed at teh Ecole Polytechnique in France, which is know for its innovative and original teaching methods.
Problems from modern physics to help the student apply just-learnt theory to fields such as molecular physics, condensed matter physics or laser physics.
Table of ContentsPart I Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms.
1 Matter-wave Interferences with Molecules.
2 Neutron Interferometry.
3 Analysis of a Stern–Gerlach Experiment.
4 Spectroscopic Measurements on a Neutron Beam.
5 Measuring the Electron Magnetic Moment Anomaly.
6 Atomic Clocks.
7 The Spectrum of Positronium.
8 Neutrino Transformations in the Sun.
9 The Hydrogen Atom in Crossed Fields.
10 Energy Loss of Ions in Matter.
Part II Quantum Entanglement and Measurement.
11 The EPR Problem and Bell’s Inequality.
12 Quantum Correlations in a Multi-Particle System.
13 A Non-Destructive Bomb Detector.
14 Direct Observation of Field Quantization.
15 Schrödinger’s Cat.
16 Quantum Cryptography.
17 Ideal Quantum Measurement.
18 The Quantum Eraser.
19 A Quantum Thermometer.
20 Laser Cooling and Trapping.
Part III Complex Systems.
21 Exact Results for the Three-Body Problem.
22 Properties of a Bose–Einstein Condensate.
23 Quantized Vortices.
24 Motion in a Periodic Potential and Bloch Oscillations.
25 Magnetic Excitons.
26 A Quantum Box.
27 Colored Molecular Ions.
28 Hyperfine Structure in Electron Spin Resonance.
29 Probing Matter with Positive Muons.
30 Quantum Reflection of Atoms from a Surface.
Part IV Appendix.
31 Memento of Quantum Mechanics.
