Quantum-classical analogies.
The authors known for their book [Advanced Optoelectronic Devices. Sprin\-ger Series in Photonics. 1. (Berlin: Springer) (1999; Zbl 0907.00008)] devote their new book to the striking analogies between classical and quantum physics. The topic is not to be confused with the correspondence principle, the Ehrenfest theorem, the WKB method or sending Planck's constant to zero. These frequently debated and widely known problems are the subject of another book of the series: [\textit{A. O. Bolivar}, Quantum-Classical Correspondence. The Frontiers Collection. (Berlin: Springer) (2004; Zbl 1074.81002)]. Instead, the authors wish to show that the classical and quantum worlds share many common concepts despite striking differences (wave-and-particle here, wave-or-particle there). Very often the analogy is only formal, i.e. the mathematical equations look the same though the interpretation of the amplitudes involved may differ substantially. Sometimes one discovers a common treatment of classical and quantum phenomena in phase space. From their position of authority the authors choose mainly topics from condensed matter physics, optoelectronics and acoustics to demonstrate analogies including a comparison of quantum and classical computing. The wealth of analogies thus discovered and presented in ten distinct chapters sheds some light on the genuine significance of both the quantum world and its classical counterpart. The book addresses students and researchers alike specialising in the study of quantum devices, atom optics or quantum optics.
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- From classical to quantum mechanics through optics
- Resource letter ICQM-1: the interplay between classical and quantum mechanics
- Die aperiodischen Vorgänge in der Quantenmechanik.
- From classical to quantum light and vice versa: quantum phase-space methods
- Elements of Quantum Optics
- Quantum mechanics from classical statistics
- Quantum mechanics. With applications to nanotechnology and information science
- Quantum Mechanics
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5878375
- Lagrangian geometrical optics of nonadiabatic vector waves and spin particles
- Nonadiabatic Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana transitions, dynamics, and interference
- Relations between different notions of degrees of freedom of a quantum system and its classical model
- Taking inspiration from quantum-wave analogies -- recent results for photonic crystals
- Leaky modes of waveguides as a classical optics analogy of quantum resonances
- Classical emulation of a quantum computer
- Wave-like variables of a classical particle and their connections to quantum mechanics
- Study of geometric phase using classical coupled oscillators
- Analogy between electromagnetic potentials and wave-like dynamic variables with connections to quantum theory
- A locally deterministic, detector-based model of quantum measurement
- Classical analogies in the solution of quantum many-body problems
- Coherent and squeezed states: introductory review of basic notions, properties, and generalizations
- On close relationship between classical time-dependent harmonic oscillator and non-relativistic quantum mechanics in one dimension
- Quantum, classical and intermediate: an illustrative example.
- Wigner time delays and Goos–Hänchen shifts of 2D quantum vortices scattered by potential barriers
- A complement to the scalar wave theory of light
- A demonstration of contextuality using quantum computers
- Quantum interference and many worlds: a new family of classical analogies
- A quantum perspective on oscillation frequencies in axion dark matter experiments
- Quantum properties of a cyclic structure based on tripolar fields
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