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245 1 0 _aPhysics of the Lorentz group /
_cSibel Baskal, Young S. Kim, Marilyn E. Noz.
250 _aSecond edition.
264 1 _aBristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
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_c[2021]
300 _a1 online resource (various pagings) :
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490 1 _aIOP ebooks. [2021 collection]
500 _a"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a1. Lorentz group and its representations -- 1.1. Generators of the Lorentz group -- 1.2. Two-by-two representation of the Lorentz group -- 1.3. Conformal representation of the Lorentz group -- 1.4. Representations of the Poincar�e group -- 1.5. Representations of the Lorentz group based on harmonic oscillators -- 1.6. Wigner functions for the Lorentz group
505 8 _a2. Wigner's little groups for internal space-time symmetries -- 2.1. Euler decomposition of Wigner's little group -- 2.2. O(3)-like little group for massive particles -- 2.3. E(2)-like little group for massless particles -- 2.4. O(2, 1)-like little group for imaginary-mass particles -- 2.5. Further properties of Wigner's little groups -- 2.6. Little groups in the light-cone coordinate system
505 8 _a3. Group contractions -- 3.1. Contraction with squeeze transformations -- 3.2. Contractions of the O(3) rotation group -- 3.3. Contraction of the O(2, 1) Lorentz group -- 3.4. Contraction of the Lorentz group -- 3.5. Tangential spheres
505 8 _a4. Two-by-two representations of Wigner's little groups -- 4.1. Transformation properties of the energy-momentum four-vector -- 4.2. Two-by-two representations of Wigner's little groups -- 4.3. Lorentz completion of the little groups -- 4.4. Bargmann and Wigner decompositions -- 4.5. Conjugate transformations -- 4.6. One little group with three branches -- 4.7. Classical damped harmonic oscillator
505 8 _a5. Relativistic spinors and polarization of photons and neutrinos -- 5.1. Two-component spinors -- 5.2. Massive and massless particles -- 5.3. Dirac spinors and massless particles -- 5.4. Polarization of massless neutrinos -- 5.5. Scalars, vectors, tensors, and the polarization of photons
505 8 _a6. Lorentz-covariant harmonic oscillators -- 6.1. Dirac's plan to construct Lorentz-covariant quantum mechanics -- 6.2. Dirac's forms of relativistic dynamics -- 6.3. Running waves and standing waves -- 6.4. Little groups for relativistic extended particles -- 6.5. Further properties of covariant oscillator wave functions -- 6.6. Lorentz contraction of harmonic oscillators -- 6.7. Feynman's rest of the Universe
505 8 _a7. Quarks and partons in the Lorentz-covariant world -- 7.1. Lorentz-covariant quark model -- 7.2. Feynman's parton picture -- 7.3. Proton structure function -- 7.4. Proton form factor and Lorentz coherence -- 7.5. Coherence in energy-momentum space -- 7.6. Hadronic temperature and boiling quarks
505 8 _a8. Wigner functions and their symmetries -- 8.1. Symmetries and the uncertainty principle in the Wigner phase space -- 8.2. Four-dimensional phase space -- 8.3. Canonical transformations -- 8.4. SL(4, r) symmetry -- 8.5. Dirac matrices for O(3, 3) -- 8.6. O(3, 3) symmetry
505 8 _a9. Coupled harmonic oscillators and squeezed states of light -- 9.1. Coupled oscillators -- 9.2. Lorentz-covariant oscillators -- 9.3. Squeezed states of light -- 9.4. Further notes on squeezed states -- 9.5. O(3, 2) symmetry from Dirac's coupled oscillators -- 9.6. Canonical and non-canonical transformations from the coupled oscillators -- 9.7. Entropy and the expanding Wigner phase space
505 8 _a10. Special relativity from quantum mechanics? -- 10.1. Definition of the problem -- 10.2. Symmetries of the single oscillator -- 10.3. Symmetries from two oscillators -- 10.4. Contraction of O(3, 2) to the inhomogeneous Lorentz group
505 8 _a11. Lorentz group in ray optics -- 11.1. The group of ABCD matrices applied to ray optics -- 11.2. Equi-diagonalization of the ABCD matrix -- 11.3. Decomposition of the ABCD matrix -- 11.4. Laser cavities -- 11.5. Composition of lens and translation matrices -- 11.6. Optical beam propagation through multilayers -- 11.7. Camera optics
505 8 _a12. Polarization optics -- 12.1. Jones vectors -- 12.2. Squeeze transformation and phase shift -- 12.3. Rotation of the polarization axes -- 12.4. The SL(2, c) group content of polarization optics -- 12.5. Optical activities -- 12.6. Correspondence to space-time symmetries -- 12.7. More optical filters from E(2)-like groups
505 8 _a13. Poincar�e sphere -- 13.1. Decoherence in polarization optics -- 13.2. Coherency matrix -- 13.3. Poincar�e sphere -- 13.4. Two concentric Poincar�e spheres -- 13.5. Symmetries derivable from the Poincar�e sphere -- 13.6. O(3, 2) symmetry for energy couplings -- 13.7. Entropy problem
505 8 _aAppendix A. Physics as art of synthesis -- A.1. Illustration of Hume, Kant, and Hegel -- A.2. Kant and Einstein -- A.3. Kantianism and Taoism -- A.4. Einstein and Hegel.
520 3 _aThis book explains the Lorentz group in a language familiar to physicists, namely in terms of two-by-two matrices. While the three-dimensional rotation group is one of the standard mathematical tools in physics, the Lorentz group applicable to the four-dimensional Minkowski space is still very strange to most physicists. However, it plays an essential role in a wide swathe of physics and is becoming the essential language for modern and rapidly developing fields. The first edition was primarily based on applications in high-energy physics developed during the latter half of the 20th Century, and the application of the same set of mathematical tools to optical sciences. In this new edition, the authors have added five new chapters to deal with emerging new problems in physics, such as quantum optics, information theory, and fundamental issues in physics including the question of whether quantum mechanics and special relativity are consistent with each other, or whether these two disciplines can be derived from the same set of equations.
521 _aMathematical and theoretical physicists.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.
545 _aSibel Ba�ckal is a professor of Physics at the Middle East Technical University. She is particularly interested in the manifestations of the Poincar�e and little groups, and of group contractions in physical sciences. Her research interests extend to current problems in classical field theories, mostly on alternative approaches to Einstein's gravity. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers and is the co-author of two books with Y S Kim and M E Noz. Young S. Kim came to the United States from South Korea in 1954 after high school graduation, to become a freshman at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now called Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh. In 1958, he went to Princeton University for graduate study in physics and received his PhD degree in 1961. In 1962, he became an assistant professor at the University of Maryland at College Park near Washington, DC. After going through the academic ranks of associate and full professors, Dr Kim became a professor emeritus in 2007. This is still his position at the University of Maryland. Dr Kim's thesis advisor at Princeton was Sam Treiman, but he had to go to Eugene Wigner whenever he had to face fundamental problems in physics. During this process, he became interested in Wigner's 1939 paper on internal space-time symmetries particles in Einstein's Lorentz-covariant world. Since 1973, his publications have been based primarily on constructing mathematical formulas for understanding Wigner's paper. In 1988, Dr Kim noted that the same set of mathematical devices are applicable to squeezed states in quantum optics. Since then, he has been publishing papers also on optical and information sciences. These days, Dr Kim publishes articles on the question of whether quantum mechanics and special relativity can be derived from the same basket of equations. Marilyn E. Noz is Professor Emerita in the Department of Radiology at NYU School of Medicine. Over the last more than 40 years, she has collaborated with Professor Kim on relativistic quantum mechanics using two-by-two matrices, harmonics oscillators, and the Lorentz group. She has contributed to over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles in elementary particle physics and optics. She has written three books with Professor Kim and two books with Professors Kim and Ba�ckal. She continues to do research in elementary particle physics and quantum optics.
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