Modern classical physics: optics, fluids, plasmas, elasticity, relativity, and statistical physics
By Miguel A. F. Sanjuán. Contemporary physics (Print), 2018
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shown that neutron packets can be constructedwith aGaussian profile (like theGlauber coherent states in optics),minimizing the uncertainty relation of position andmomentum, and exhibiting Poissonian counting statistics (i.e., random spacing between neutrons). Besides, it is discussed the form in which such packets can be squeezed – in either position or momentum – to exhibit non-classical profiles. The manuscript is the second edition of a monograph, in itself already extensive, published in 2000 (see the book reviews by J. Schmiedmayer, Neutron News 12:44, 2001, A. G. Wagh, Meas. Sci. Technol. 12:355, 2001, and J. W. Lynn, Phys. Today, June 2002, 56). It consists of 12 chapters that include thematerial of the original book – abridged and reorganized in some parts, extended and updated in other parts – plus the results and discussions about new techniques and experiments. The differences between both editions have been already detailed by A. J. Leggett (Contemp. Phys. 57:284, 2016), H. Schober (NeutronNews 27:39, 2016), and M. P. Silverman (J. Appl. Cryst. 48:1607, 2015). Regarding the present edition, it is written with clarity of ideas and introduces technicalities in enjoyable, step-bystep form. The book can be read by senior undergraduate students who, with certainty, will become interested in the subject and excited with the experiment details. The contents are addressed to graduate students, who will find experimental techniques and results to get a refinement of their understanding of fundamental physics. In turn, lecturers teaching either quantum, nuclear, gravitational or optical physics will find a source of practical applications, with detailed explanations of the corresponding experiments, and an extensive bibliography for further discussion. My personal interest is addressed to quantum physics, and finds that the Rauch-Werner book is a very sensitive suggestion to discuss the foundations and philosophy of the theory by using modern arguments, with a phenomenological counterweight. On the other hand, besides the caveats by A. J. Leggett in his book review, I find that the size of the printed letters is so tiny that the reading is difficult. The quoting style is also hard, it makes tedious the looking for a concrete reference, mainly when one is interested in the information compressed in tables. Some references are not correctly linked to the text and some other include misprints. In turn, the voices included in the index, although numerous, are not enough to embrace all the possibilities of searching that are expected for a manuscript so extensive and specialized as the present one. Of course, the latter remarks do not discount neither the quality nor the soundness of the material included in the book.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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