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This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the foundations of quantum mechanics. It shows how the second world war and cold war fostered the development of materials, instruments, and systems that made it possible to create, manipulate, and detect single quantum systems, thus creating the material conditions for experiments in foundations of quantum mechanics and for a broad spectrum of experimental inquiries on the structure and properties of matter which underlay the creation of new research fields such as quantum optics, quantum information, and atomic, molecular, and optical physics. Discussing research and development performed in diverse contexts, this book reveals how physicists carried instruments, and the knowledge they embodied, through disciplinary and geographic frontiers to probe entanglement, a most intriguing feature of the quantum world.

Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- Science—History. --- Physics—Philosophy. --- History of Science. --- Philosophy of Physics. --- Physics --- Science

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This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the foundations of quantum mechanics. It shows how the second world war and cold war fostered the development of materials, instruments, and systems that made it possible to create, manipulate, and detect single quantum systems, thus creating the material conditions for experiments in foundations of quantum mechanics and for a broad spectrum of experimental inquiries on the structure and properties of matter which underlay the creation of new research fields such as quantum optics, quantum information, and atomic, molecular, and optical physics. Discussing research and development performed in diverse contexts, this book reveals how physicists carried instruments, and the knowledge they embodied, through disciplinary and geographic frontiers to probe entanglement, a most intriguing feature of the quantum world.

Bell's theorem. --- Quantum theory --- History. --- Mathematics --- Quantum dynamics --- Quantum mechanics --- Quantum physics --- Physics --- Mechanics --- Thermodynamics --- Bell inequalities --- Bell inequality --- Bell theorem --- Inequalities, Bell --- Inequality, Bell --- Science—History. --- Physics—Philosophy. --- History of Science. --- Philosophy of Physics. --- Science

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This revised and enhanced new edition of a well-established textbook provides a balanced overview of various areas of theoretical physics based on the use of variational principles. As well as field theory, the book deals with motion in curved spaces, the cradle of general relativity, and gravitational optics. New chapters on the relation of classical mechanics and geometrical optics as well as gravitational waves, which are considered as a true confirmation of general relativity, have been included. Each chapter has been carefully revised and enlarged. Finally, the text describes Feynman's formulation of quantum mechanics by path integrals, which gives the link between quantum and classical mechanics. The book provides a set of exercises, problems, and solutions.

Mathematical physics. --- Mechanics. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Calculus of variations. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Physics—Philosophy. --- Mathematical Methods in Physics. --- Classical Mechanics. --- Calculus of Variations and Optimization. --- Optimization. --- Engineering Mechanics. --- Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy. --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Isoperimetrical problems --- Variations, Calculus of --- Maxima and minima --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematical analysis --- Operations research --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Physical mathematics --- Mathematics --- Field theory (Physics) --- Classical field theory --- Continuum physics --- Continuum mechanics