Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- Route map
- 1 Waves versus particles
- 2 Heisenberg and uncertainty
- 3 Schrödinger and matter waves
- 4 Atoms and nuclei
- 5 Quantum tunnelling
- 6 Pauli and the elements
- 7 Quantum co-operation and superfluids
- 8 Quantum jumps
- 9 Quantum engineering
- 10 Death of a star
- 11 Feynman rules
- 12 Weak photons and strong glue
- 13 Afterword – quantum physics and science fiction
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1 The size of things
- Appendix 2 Solving the Schrödinger equation
- Glossary
- Quotations and sources
- Suggestions for further reading
- Photo-credits
- Name index
- Subject index
- References
Suggestions for further reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- Route map
- 1 Waves versus particles
- 2 Heisenberg and uncertainty
- 3 Schrödinger and matter waves
- 4 Atoms and nuclei
- 5 Quantum tunnelling
- 6 Pauli and the elements
- 7 Quantum co-operation and superfluids
- 8 Quantum jumps
- 9 Quantum engineering
- 10 Death of a star
- 11 Feynman rules
- 12 Weak photons and strong glue
- 13 Afterword – quantum physics and science fiction
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1 The size of things
- Appendix 2 Solving the Schrödinger equation
- Glossary
- Quotations and sources
- Suggestions for further reading
- Photo-credits
- Name index
- Subject index
- References
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- The New Quantum Universe , pp. 343 - 344Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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R. P. Feynman (1996). The Feynman Lectures on Computation, edited by Tony Hey and Robin Allen (Addison Wesley)
A. P. French and E. F. Taylor (1978). An Introduction to Quantum Physics (Norton, USA; Nelson, UK)
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G. Gamow and R. Stannard (1999). The New World of Mr Tompkins (Cambridge University Press)
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Gerard Milburn (1996) Quantum Technology (Allen and Unwin) (published in the USA as Schroedinger's Machines (Freeman))
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1992) Taming the Atom (Random House)
O. Frisch (1979). What Little I Remember (Cambridge University Press) E. Segré (1980). From X-rays to Quarks (Freeman)
R. P. Feynman (1985). Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! (Norton)
A. Pais (1982). Subtle is the Lord – The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein (Oxford University Press)
P. Goodchild (1980). J. Oppenheimer – Shatterer of Worlds (BBC Publications)
Richard Rhodes (1986). The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Simon and Schuster), The definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the development of the atomic bomb and the Manhattan project
A. Hey and P. Walters (1997). Einstein's Mirror (Cambridge University Press)