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Selected Papers of Chen Ning Yang Ii : With Commentaries.
Title:
Selected Papers of Chen Ning Yang Ii : With Commentaries.
Author:
Yang, Chen Ning.
ISBN:
9789814449021
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1 online resource (395 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- [[71d]] Speech About the Great Wall -- Commentary -- [[A71d]] C. N. Yang Discusses Physics in People's Republic of China -- Commentary -- [[72d]] A de Gaulle-Like Trip -- Commentary -- [[77g]] Condition of Self-Duality for SU(2) Gauge Fields on Euclidean Four-Dimensional Space -- Commentary -- [[78a]] Generalization of Dirac's Monopole to SU2 Gauge Fields -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOLUTIONS -- Ill. CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOLUTIONS (CONTINUED) -- IV. POTENTIALS bi(a)u AND bi(bu) -- V. FIELD STRENGTHS fiuv FOR FIELD -- VI. ANALYTICITY AT = 0 AND = -- VII. PROOF OF S05 SYMMETRY -- VIII. ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES -- IX. FIELDS AND AS THE ONLY S05 SYMMETRICAL FIELDS -- X. ANGULAR MOMENTUM OPERATORS -- XI. REMARKS -- APPENDIX A: SOME PROPERTIES OF SU2 GAUGE FIELDS IN FOUR DIMENSIONS -- APPENDIX C: PROOF THAT FIELD IS ORTHOGONAL SELF·ANTIDUAL -- Commentary -- [[79d]] Einstein and the Physics of the Future Panel Discussion -- Commentary -- [[80d]] Does Violation of Microscopic Time-Reversal Invariance Lead to the Possibility of Entropy Decrease? (with C. P. Yang) -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Commentary -- [[82c]] Joseph Mayer and Statistical Mechanics -- Bibliography -- Commentary -- [[82e]] Flux Quantization, A Personal Reminiscence -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Commentary -- [[82g]] The Discrete Symmetries P, T and C -- FOOTNOTES -- DISCUSSION -- Commentary -- [[83g]] Gauge Fields, Electromagnetism and the Bohm-Aharonov Effect -- 1. Josephson Junction Experiment -- 2. Necessity of Single Valuedness of Wavefunctions -- 3. Definition of J Au dxu When There are Gauge-Transformations -- 4. Diffraction Pattern Only Depends on Total Flux -- 5. Locality of Electromagnetism in the Bohm-Aharonov Experiment -- 6. Weyl's Scale Change and Einstein's Objection.

7. Charge Quantization, Compactness of the Gauge Group, and Flux Quantization -- 8. Electromagnetism is the Gauge Invariant Manifestation of a Nonintegrable Phase Factor -- References -- Commentary -- [[85g]] Spin of Electrons, Hadrons and Nuclei (with T. T. Chou) -- 1. The Spin Is Mysterious -- 2. Can One Measure the Velocity Profile of Quark-Gluon Matter Inside a Spinning Hadron or Nucleus? -- 3, Importance of Angular Momentum for very High Energy Multiparticle Production Processes -- References -- DISCUSSION -- Commentary -- [[85j]] Hermann Weyl's Contribution to Physics -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Commentary -- Additional comments -- [[86c]] Square Root of Minus One, Complex Phases and Erwin SchrÖdinger -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Complex numbers in matrix and wave mechanics -- 5.3. Complex numbers in Weyl's gauge theory -- 5.4. Modern consequences -- 5.5. Appendix -- A letter from F. London to E. Schrodinger* -- References -- Commentary -- [[87a]] Generalization of Sturm-Liouville Theory to a System of Ordinary Differential Equations with Dirac Type Spectrum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Differential Equation and Boundary Condition -- 3. Solution Set tp Satisfying Boundary Condition at x = 0 -- 4. Properties of - 1 and the Phase Angles i -- 5. Eigenvalues El and Eigenfunctions l -- 6. Density of Eigenvalues -- 7. Conversion to Integral Equation with Symmetrical Kernel -- References -- Commentary -- [[87b]] C. Y Chao, Pair Creation and Pair Annihilation (with B. A. Li) -- I. Introduction -- 2. Background -- (a) The Compton formula 15 -- (b) The Dirac16 and Gordon17 formula -- (c) The Klein-Nishina formula18 -- 3. Anomalous Absorption -- 4. "Additional Scattered Rays" -- 5. Interpretation -- 6. Chao's Crucial Value of .5 MeV -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Commentary.

[[88b]] A One-Dimensional N Fermion Problem with Factorized S Matrix (with C. H. Gu) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bethe's Hypothesis -- 3. N=2 -- 4. N 3 -- 5. Yang-Baxter Equation -- 6. S-Matrix -- 7. Wave Packet Interpretation of Yang-Baxter Equation -- 8. Bound States for c < 0 -- 9. Scattering of Bound States ( c < 0) -- 10. Properties of the S Matrix -- References -- Commentary -- [[88d]] Journey Through Statistical Mechanics -- References -- Commentary -- [[89c]] Modern Physics and Warm Friendship -- Commentary -- [[90b]] SO4 Symmetry in a Hubbard Model (with S. C. Zhang) -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Commentary -- [[90e]] Symmetry and Physics -- Early Beginnings -- 19th Century: Group and Crystals -- 20th Century: Enlarged Role of Symmetry -- 20th Century: Gauge Symmetry -- 21st Century: New Facets of Symmetry? -- Commentary -- [[91e]] S. S. Chern and I -- Commentary -- [[92c]] Reflections on the Development of Theoretical Physics -- REFERENCES -- Commentary -- [[93b]] Deng Jiaxian -- From "Trampled on" to "Standing up" -- Father of Two Bombs -- Deng Jiaxian and Oppenheimer -- Tears for the Chinese People? Tears for a Friend? -- "I must not leave" -- Eternally Proud -- Commentary -- [[95b]] Julian Schwinger -- Commentary -- [[95d]] Path Crossings with Lars Onsager -- References -- Commentary -- [[97d]] Exact Solution of the Vibration Problem for the Carbon-60 Molecule (with T. T. Chou) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Symmetry of the C6o molecule -- 4. The vibration matrix -- 4.1. Potential energy for bond-stretching -- 4.2. Potential energy for angular motion -- 5. Vibrational characteristic polynomials -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Commentary -- [[97f]] Father and I -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Commentary -- [[99c]] Speech After Banquet -- [[A99j]] Writeup Upon Hearing of Mills' Death -- Commentary -- [[01f]] Enrico Fermi -- Commentary.

[[01g]] Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) -- Commentary -- [[02c]] Banquet Speech, June 2002 -- Commentary -- [[02i]] Thematic Melodies of Twentieth Century Theoretical Physics: Quantization, Symmetry and Phase Factor -- 1. Quantization -- 2. Symmetry -- 3. Phase Factor -- 4. Development -- Commentary -- [[04c]] Gauge Invariance and Interactions -- Commentary -- [[05b]] Albert Einstein: Opportunity and Perception -- I -- II -- III -- Commentary -- [[06b]] The Klein-Nishina Formula & Quantum Electrodynamics -- Magic and Sickness -- Was Dirac's equation correct? -- Commentary -- [[08d]] Pseudopotential Method and Dilute Hard "Sphere" Bose Gas in Dimensions 2, 4 and 5 -- REFERENCES -- Commentary -- [[09f]] Ground State of Fermions in a 1D Trap with δ Function Interaction -- AN EQUIVALENT PROBLEM -- References -- Commentary -- [[10a]] Banquet Speech at the Singapore Conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann on His 80th Birthday -- Commentary -- [[10e]] Spin 1/2 Fermions in 1D Harmonic Trap with Repulsive Delta Function Interparticle Interaction (with Z.-Q. Ma) -- References -- Commentary -- [[10h]] One-Dimensional w-Component Fermions and Bosons with Repulsive Delta Function Interaction (with Y. Z. You) -- References -- Commentary -- [[11a]] Quantum Numbers, Chern Classes, and a Bodhisattva -- Physics meets geometry -- Commentary -- [[11b]] My Experience as a Student and Researcher -- References -- Commentary -- [[12a]] Fermi's β-Decay Theory -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- References -- [[12d]] Topology and Gauge Theory in Physics -- References -- Commentary -- [[12f]] On Reaching Age Ninety -- Postscript -- Index of Names in the Commentaries.
Abstract:
Professor Chen Ning Yang, an eminent contemporary physicist, was Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1955 to 1966, and Albert Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his retirement in 1999. He has been Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1986 and Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, since 1998. Since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948, Prof Yang has made great impacts in both abstract theory and phenomenological analysis in modern physics. In 1983, he published "Selected Papers (1945-1980), With Commentary". It has been considered by Freeman Dyson as one of his favorite books. The present book is a sequel to that earlier volume. It is a collection of his personally selected papers (1971-2012) supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Its contents reflect Professor Yang's changing interests after he reached age sixty. It also includes commentaries written by him in 2011 when he is 89 years old. The papers and commentaries in this unique collection comprise a remarkable personal and professional chronicle, shedding light on both the intellectual development of a great physicist and on the nature of scientific inquiry.
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