Symmetries in Physics

Proceedings of the International Symposium Held in Honor of Professor Marcos Moshinsky at Cocoyoc, Morelos, México, June 3¿7, 1991
Herausgegeben von Frank, Alejandro; Wolf, Kurt B.

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Produktbeschreibung

Marcos Moshinsky was born on 20 April 1921, in Kiev, Ukraine, and em igrated to Mexico at the age of four. He began work at the Universidad N acional Aut6noma de Mexico on 1 January 1942, as a laboratory assis tant working on the measurement of cosmic rays. He pursued his graduate studies at Princeton University, and wrote his thesis under the supervision of Professor Eugene Wigner. Since 1949, and in spite of many visits and temporary posts held abroad, Moshinsky has been based in Mexico. Through example and encouragement, Moshinsky may be credited to a large extent with the shaping of Mexican scientific research. He has di rected 40 B. Sc. , M. Sc. , and Ph. D. theses, and published over 200 scientific articles and four books; he holds all the Mexican science prizes, and sev eral international ones, being a member of 11 academies of learning. Talent and circumstance have placed Marcos Moshinsky at the origin of several of the enterprises of the Mexican and Latin American scientific communities: he was founding editor of the Revista Mexicana de F{sica from 1952 to 1967; the Escuela Latinoamericana de Fisica was initiated and five times organized by him in Mexico; he was founding member and later president of the Academia de la Investigaci6n Cientifica (1962-1963), the Sociedad Mexicana de Fisica (1967-1969), and the Centro Internacional de Fisica y Matematicas A plicadas (1986-), in Cuernavaca.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-77286-3
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9783642772863
• ISBN-10: 3642772862
• Artikelnr.: 36118122

Inhaltsangabe

1 Group Theory and the Harmonic Oscillator: The Work of Marcos Moshinsky.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Schematic theory of nuclear reactions.- 1.3 The Moshinsky brackets.- 1.4 Marcos' harmonic oscillator.- 1.5 Group theory and nuclear structure.- 1.6 Classical canonical transformations and their unitary representation.- 1.7 Rendering accidental degenerancy non-accidental.- 1.8 Collective models.- 1.9 Structure of matter in strong magnetic fields.- 1.10 Relativistic oscillators.- Electronic and Molecular Physics.- 2 Generalizing the BCS Universal Constants to High-Temperature Superconductivity.- 3 Fermion Clustering in an Exactly- Soluble N-Fermion Model for Hadronic, Nuclear, and Superconductivity Physics.- 4 The Scattering Approach to Quantum Electronic Transport.- 5 Symmetry-Avoided Crossings and their Role in the Catalytic Activity of Transition Metals.- Nuclear Physics.- 6 The Symplectic Model and Potential-Energy Surfaces.- 7 The SU(3) Generalization of Racah's SU(2j + 1) ? SU (2) Group-Subgroup Embedding.- 8 Scaling and Universality in the Shock Compression of Condensed Matter.- 9 Deriving Nuclei from Quarks.- 10 Binding Energies of Nuclei and Atoms.- Particles and Relativity.- 11 The Relativistic Oscillator and Mass Formulas.- 12 Relativistic Equations in External Fields.- 13 A Parallelism Between Quantum Gravity and the IR Limit in QCD (Emergence of Hadron and Nuclear Symmetries).- 14 On Rainich-Misner-Wheeler Conditions in Nonlinear Electrodynamics.- 15 Hamiltonian Formulation of a Simple Covariant Harmonic Oscillator for Bosons and Fermions.- Symmetry and Decay.- 16 Doorway States in Classical Physics.- 17 Resonant States and the Decay Process.- 18 The Decay Process: An Exactly Soluble Example and its Implications.- 19 Moshinsky Functions, Resonances andTunneling.- Phase Space Dynamics.- 20 Nonstationary Oscillator in Quantum Mechanics.- 21 Symmetry and Dynamical Lie Algebras in Classical and Quantum Mechanics.- 22 Canonical Transformations in Mechanics vis-à-vis Those in Optics.- Round Table.- 23 Science and Technology in Latin America.- Author index.