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Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution

By John Gribbin
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin digital book - Fable

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Preface xi

Acknowledgements xii

Introduction: It's Not Rocket Science 1

1 Nineteenth-Century Boy 7

Antecedents

Early years

An empire's last hurrah

Scientific stirrings

From schoolboy to undergraduate

2 Physics before Schrodinger 22

Newton and the world of particles

Maxwell and the world of waves

Boltzmann and the world of statistics

3 Twentieth-Century Man 44

Student life

Life beyond the lab

War service on the Italian front

Back to Vienna

The aftermath

The peripatetic professor

4 The First Quantum Revolution 67

When black bodies are bright

Enter the quantum

The quantum becomes real

Inside the atom

Tripping the light fantastic

Einstein again

5 Solid Swiss Respectability 91

The university and the ETH

Personal problems and scientific progress

Physics and philosophy

Life and love

My world view

Quantum statistics

6 Matrix Mechanics 112

Half-truths

What you see is what you get

Matrices don?t commute

Justice isn't always done

7 Schrodinger and the Second Quantum Revolution 124

Science and sensuality

Riding the wave

A quantum of uncertainty

The Copenhagen consensus

8 The Big Time in Berlin 148

Making waves in America

Berlin and Brussels

The golden years

Back to the future

People and politics

9 The Coming of the Quantum Cat 172

Back in the USA

Oxford and beyond

Faster than light

The cat in the box

From Oxford with love

10 There, and Back Again 187

Whistling in the dark

Reality bites

The unhappy return

Belgian interlude

11 The happiest years of my life? 201

Dev

Settling in

Early days at the DIAS

Family

Life in Dublin

The post-war years

Many worlds

12 What is Life? 224

Life itself

Quantum chemistry

The green pamphlet

Schrodinger's variation on the theme

The double helix

13 Back to Vienna 243

Farewell to Dublin

Home is the hero

Declining years

The triumph of entropy

14 Schrodinger's Scientific Legacy 259

Hidden reality and a mathematician's mistake

The Bell test and the Aspect experiment

Quantum cryptography and the no cloning theorem

Quantum teleportation and classical information

The quantum computer and the Multiverse

Quantum physics and reality

Postscript: Quantum Generations 285

Notes 291

Sources and Further Reading 297

Picture Acknowledgements 305

Index 307

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