The Butterfly in the Quantum World: The story of the most fascinating quantum fractal

ISBN-13: 9781681749136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 350 str.

Indubala I. Satija

Spis treści

• Prelude
• Kiss precise
• The fractal family
• Geometry, number theory, and the butterfly: Friendly numbers and kissing circles
• The Apollonian-butterfly connection (ABC)
• Quasiperiodic patterns and the butterfly
• The quantum world
• A quantum-mechanical marriage and its unruly child
• A different kind of quantization: The quantum Hall effect
• Topology and topological invariants: Preamble to the topological aspects of the quantum Hall
• The Berry phase and the quantum Hall effect
• The kiss precise and precise Quantization
• The art of tinkering
• The butterfly in the laboratory
• Gallery
• Divertimento
• Gratitude
• Poetic
• Coda
• Selected Bibliography