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100 Years of Fundamental Theoretical Physics in the Palm of Your Hand

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction—An Overview and a Road Map
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    Chapter 2 Sorting Out Selective Measurements: QM Re-invents Complex Numbers, Matrices, Operators and Inner-Product Spaces
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    Chapter 3 Interference and Measurements
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    Chapter 4 Transformation Theory and Emergence of $$\hbar $$ in the Formalism
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    Chapter 5 Quantum Dynamics, Construction of Hamiltonians and Decay of Quantum Systems
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    Chapter 6 Stability of the H-Atom in Configuration Space
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    Chapter 7 Do Atomic Electrons Fall to the Center of Multi-electron Atoms?
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    Chapter 8 How Quantum Mechanics Forces Matter in Bulk to Occupy Such a Large Volume and Prevents It from Collapsing Around Us
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    Chapter 9 Schrödinger’s Cat and Quantum Decoherence
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    Chapter 10 Quantum Teleportation
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    Chapter 11 Lorentz Frames and Minkowski Spacetime
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    Chapter 12 The Celebrated Lorentz Group: Underlying Transformations Derived
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    Chapter 13 Physics in Minkowski Spacetime: Applications
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    Chapter 14 First Unified Field Theory: Maxwell’s Equations and Lorentz Covariance
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    Chapter 15 QM Meets Relativity and Birth of QFT: Fields and Particles
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    Chapter 16 The Five Types of Fields You Meet in Quantum Field Theory
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    Chapter 17 Gauge Fields
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    Chapter 18 Particles & Symmetries
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    Chapter 19 Strange, Charm, Bottom and the Top Quarks: How They Came About?
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    Chapter 20 C, P, CP and T Violations in Weak Interactions
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    Chapter 21 Lagrangians: Varying Action Integrals in QFT
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    Chapter 22 Quantum Dynamics: The Functional Differential Formalism of QFT
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    Chapter 23 Quantization of Gauge Theories and Constraints: Functional Differential Formalism
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    Chapter 24 Functional (Path) Integral Formalism as a Functional Fourier Transform of the Functional Differential One
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    Chapter 25 Transition Amplitudes and the Meaning of Virtual Particles
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    Chapter 26 Radiative Corrections
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    Chapter 27 Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Electron and the Lamb Shift
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    Chapter 28 How the Fine-Structure Changes from $${\simeq } 1/137$$ to $${\simeq }1/128$$ at High Energies Fine-structure at high energies
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    Chapter 29 Bell’s Test, Entanglement and the Strict Predictions of QFT
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    Chapter 30 What Is Renormalization Theory and Why Is It a Criterion in Developing and Describing the Fundamental Interactions in Nature?
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    Chapter 31 Renormalization Group of an Abelian Gauge Theory: QED
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    Chapter 32 Renormalization Group of a Non-Abelian Gauge Theory: QCD and Asymptotic Freedom
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    Chapter 33 Birth of the Electroweak Theory
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    Chapter 34 The Higgs Field and the God Particle
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    Chapter 35 The Elecroweak Model and the Significant Role of the Higgs Field
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    Chapter 36 Spin and Statistics and the CPT Theorem
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    Chapter 37 Grand Unified Field Theories and the Role of Inflation of the Universe
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    Chapter 38 Supersymmetry and Superspace
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    Chapter 39 The Very Nature of a SUSY Theory: Super-Poincaré Algebra, Energy Spectrum and Supermultiplets
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    Chapter 40 Superfields
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    Chapter 41 SUSY Field Theories: Maxwellian, Yang–Mills, Spin0-Spin1/2 Interactions
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    Chapter 42 SUSY and the Standard Model: Couplings Unification
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    Chapter 43 String Theory
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    Chapter 44 Bosonic Strings
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    Chapter 45 Compactification, $$\mathscr {D} $$ Branes and Mass Generation
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    Chapter 46 Superstrings
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    Chapter 47 Vertices, Interactions and Scattering
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    Chapter 48 String Theory Re-Invents the Yang-Mills Field Theory
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    Chapter 49 Gravity and Spacetime
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    Chapter 50 Spacetime Curvature
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    Chapter 51 Field Equations of GR
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    Chapter 52 Transfer of Gravitational Energy, Polarization Aspects and Gravitational Waves
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    Chapter 53 Review of Planetary Motion in Newtonian Theory of Gravitation in Brief
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    Chapter 54 Schwarzschild Metric: An Elementary Treatment
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    Chapter 55 Conservation Laws and GR Treatment of the Schwarzschild Metric
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    Chapter 56 Perihelion Precession of Planets Orbits and the Schwinger-Binet Equation
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    Chapter 57 Light Deflection in GR and Gravitational Lensing
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    Chapter 58 Retardation of Light Signals in GR
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    Chapter 59 Local Measurement of the Speed of Light in the Schwarzschild Geometry and Its Constancy
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    Chapter 60 Black Holes Physics
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    Chapter 61 Fall into a Black Hole
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    Chapter 62 Black Holes, White Holes and Wormholes
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    Chapter 63 Geometrodynamics of the Wormhole
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    Chapter 64 Spinning Black Holes: Basic Properties
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    Chapter 65 Spinning Black Holes: Rotational Aspects and the Ergoregion
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    Chapter 66 Spinning BHs: Applications and Energy and Angular Momentum Aspects
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    Chapter 67 Frame Dragging and Geodetic Effect Derived: Two More Tests of GR
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    Chapter 68 Entropy, Thermodynamics of a BH and Hawking Radiation
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    Chapter 69 String Theory Re-invents Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
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    Chapter 70 Accommodating Spinors in Spacetime and Emergence of Supergravity
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    Chapter 71 Quantization of Geometry and Loop Quantum Gravity
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    Chapter 72 Perturbative Quantum Gravity
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    Chapter 73 Our Homogeneous and Isotropic Universe on Very Large Scales
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    Chapter 74 Three Dimensional Surfaces of Constant Curvatures
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    Chapter 75 Robertson–Walker Metric and Friedmann Universes
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    Chapter 76 Expansion of the Universe and the Hubble Law
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    Chapter 77 Elementary Derivation of the Friedmann Equations and Their Modifications
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    Chapter 78 Evolution and Fate of the Universe
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    Chapter 79 Age of the Universe and How Big Is It?
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    Chapter 80 Distances in Cosmology
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    Chapter 81 Statistical Thermodynamics in Brief
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    Chapter 82 Black Body Radiation: The Planck Law
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    Chapter 83 Statistical Distributions
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    Chapter 84 Neutrinos and Ultra-Relativistic Particles
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    Chapter 85 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
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    Chapter 86 Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Photon Decoupling
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    Chapter 87 The Big Bang Description Needs Some Refinement
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    Chapter 88 Inflation
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    Chapter 89 Inflation Solves Three Key Problems of the Big Bang Description and GUTs
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    Chapter 90 Field Theory Formulation of Inflation: A Time Dependent Vacuum and a Scalar Field
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    Chapter 91 Power Spectrum, Geometry of the Universe and Parameters of Cosmology
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    Chapter 92 Dark Matter and Dark Energy
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    Chapter 93 Another Look at Our Universe
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Title
100 Years of Fundamental Theoretical Physics in the Palm of Your Hand
Published by
Springer International Publishing, November 2020
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-51081-7
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978-3-03-051080-0, 978-3-03-051081-7
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Manoukian, E. B.

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