More Than One Mystery

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1 Fields Without Forces.
• 1.1 The Enigma of Quantum Interference.
• 1.2 Confined Fields and Electron Interference.
• References.
• 2 Around and Around: The Rotating Electron in Electromagnetic Fields.
• 2.1 Broken Symmetry of the Charged Planar Rotator.
• 2.2 The Two-Dimensional Rotator in an Electric Field.
• 2.3 The Two-Dimensional Rotator in a Magnetic Field.
• 2.4 The Two-Dimensional Rotator in a Vector Potential Field.
• 2.5 Fermions, Bosons, and Things In-Between.
• 2.6 Quantum Interference in a Metal Ring.
• 3 Interferometry of Correlated Particles.
• 3.1 Ghostly Correlations: Wave and Spin.
• 3.2 The AB—EPR Effect with Two Solenoids.
• 3.3 The AB—HBT Effect in a Two-Slit Interferometer.
• 3.4 Correlated Particles in a Mach—Zehnder Interferometer.
• 3.5 Brighter Than a Million Suns: Electron Beams from Atom-Size Sources.
• 4 Quantum Boosts and Quantum Beats.
• 4.1 Interfering Pathways in Time.
• 4.2 Laser-Generated Quantum Beats.
• 4.3 Nonlinear Effects in a Three-Level Atom.
• 4.4 Correlated Beats from Entangled States.
• 5 Sympathetic Vibrations: The Atom in Resonant Fields.
• 5.1 Beams, Bottles, and Electric Resonance.
• 5.2 Two Perspectives of the Two-Level Atom.
• 5.3 Oscillating Field Theory.
• 5.4 Resonance and Coherent States: The Tell-Tale Mark of a Quantum Jump.
• 5.5 Quantum Interference in Separated Oscillating Fields.
• 5.6 Ion Interferometry and Tests of Gauge Invariance.
• 6 The Quantum Physics of Handedness.
• 6.1 Optical Activity of Mirror-Image Molecules.
• 6.2 Quantum Interference and Parity Conservation.
• 6.3 Optical Activity of Rotating Matter.