Falling cats, parallel parking, and polarized light

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(03)00062-5MaRDI QIDQ720543zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Robert W. Batterman

Publication date 17 October 2011

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S1355-2198(03)00062-5

zbMATH Keywords

AharonovBerry phaseBohm effectfiber bundlesgauge theorygeometric phasemonopolespolarized light

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Quantum optics (81V80)

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