{"title":"General Relativity","authors":"G. Kunstatter, Saurya Das","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229708,"journal":{"name":"A First Course on Symmetry, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130214289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appendix: Mathematical Background","authors":"G. Kunstatter, Saurya Das","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229708,"journal":{"name":"A First Course on Symmetry, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129249225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formal Aspects of Symmetry","authors":"G. Kunstatter, Saurya Das","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229708,"journal":{"name":"A First Course on Symmetry, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127880795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Schrödinger Equation","authors":"G. Kunstatter, Saurya Das","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229708,"journal":{"name":"A First Course on Symmetry, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics","volume":"255 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133912165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nuclear Physics","authors":"G. Kunstatter, Saurya Das","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229708,"journal":{"name":"A First Course on Symmetry, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114244819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Relativity I: The Basics","authors":"G. Kunstatter, Saurya Das","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229708,"journal":{"name":"A First Course on Symmetry, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125931296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mysteries of the Quantum World","authors":"G. Kunstatter, Saurya Das","doi":"10.1887/0750301783/b378c6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1887/0750301783/b378c6","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum mechanics has fascinating and sometimes weird consequences. The so-called EPR conundrum first raised by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen in 1935 questions the completeness of quantum mechanics. The problem has its roots in the uncertainty principle, which prevents quantum states from describing simultaneously certain complementary elements of reality, such as position and momentum. The resolution was provided by John Bell in the mid-1960s and confirmed experimentally in 1981. Bell proved that no theory more complete than quantum mechanics can be formulated without violating special relativity. Remarkably, the feature of quantum mechanics that leads to this behaviour, namely quantum entanglement, has been turned into a resource that allows the construction of super fast quantum computers and provides in principle absolutely secure data encryption. We describe the nature of quantum entanglement and the workings of quantum computers, with examples. Finally, we address the question “what does this all mean” by describing various interpretations of quantum mechanic, each of which may be satisfying, or not, depending on one’s taste.","PeriodicalId":229708,"journal":{"name":"A First Course on Symmetry, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124216831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wave Function","authors":"G. Kunstatter, Saurya Das","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229708,"journal":{"name":"A First Course on Symmetry, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121648731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wave Function","authors":"G. Kunstatter, Saurya Das","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-92346-4_9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92346-4_9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229708,"journal":{"name":"A First Course on Symmetry, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129138890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Quantum","authors":"G. Kunstatter, Saurya Das","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55420-0_8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":229708,"journal":{"name":"A First Course on Symmetry, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127239326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}