Condensed-Matter-Principia Based Information & Statistical Measures

This book summarizes the efforts of ten papers collected by the Special Issue "Condensed-Matter-Principia Based Information & Statistical Measures: From Classical to Quantum". It calls for papers which deal with condensed-matter systems, or their interdisciplinary analogs, for which well-defined classical–statistical vs. quantum information measures can be inferred while based on the entropy concept. The contents have mainly been rested upon objectives addressed by an international colloquium held on October 2019, in UTP Bydgoszcz, Poland (see http://zmpf.imif.utp.edu.pl/rci-jcs/rci-jcs-4/), with an emphasis placed on the achievements of Professor Gerard Czajkowski, who commenced his research activity with open diffusion–reaction systems under the supervision of Roman S. Ingarden (Toruń), a father of Polish synergetics, and original thermodynamic approaches to self-organization. The active cooperation of Professor Czajkowski, mainly with German physicists (Friedrich Schloegl, Aachen; Werner Ebeling, Berlin), ought to be highlighted. In light of this, a development of his research, as it has moved from statistical thermodynamics to solid state theory, pursued in terms of nonlinear solid-state optics (Franco Bassani, Pisa), and culminated very recently with large quasiparticles termed Rydberg excitons, and their coherent interactions with light, is worth delineating

Mécanique quantique supersymétrique et opérateurs d’échelle pour le système de Rosen-Morse

Le présent mémoire est dédié à l’étude du rôle de la mécanique quantique supersymétrique dans la construction d’opérateurs d’échelle et de leurs applications pour le système quantique de Rosen-Morse. L’aboutissement de ces travaux est contenu dans un article qui constitue le dernier chapitre du mémoire. Précisément, on motive l’échec de la réalisation des opérateurs d’échelle comme opérateurs différentiels pour le potentiel de Rosen-Morse avec les méthodes traditionnelles. On exploite la propriété d’invariance de forme dans le contexte de la mécanique quantique supersymétrique comme un outil alternatif pour offrir une première approche quantique à la réalisation des opérateurs d’échelle pour la version hyperbolique de ce potentiel. On utilise cette réalisation pour obtenir celle d’opérateurs d’échelle pour une classe particulière d’extensions rationnelles du potentiel de Rosen-Morse hyperbolique avec des techniques issues de la supersymétrie. Des états cohérents sont construits à partir des réalisations obtenues pour les différents systèmes. Certaines de leurs propriétés sont analysées et mises en comparaison. En parallèle, on utilise une transformation canonique ponctuelle pour déduire une première réalisation des opérateurs d’échelle comme opérateurs différentiels pour le système de Rosen-Morse trigonométrique. De cette réalisation sont construits des états cohérents pour lesquels des propriétés sont similairement analysées.This master thesis is dedicated to the study of the role of supersymmetric quantum mechanics in the construction of ladder operators and of their applications for the quantum Rosen-Morse system. The results of this work are presented in an article that constitutes the last chapter of the thesis. Precisely, we motivate the failure of traditional methods in providing a realization for the Rosen-Morse ladder operators as differential operators. We provide a first quantum-based solution to this problem by using the shape invariance property in supersymmetric quantum mechanics as a tool in the construction of the ladder operators for the hyperbolic version of this potential. We use the latter realization to obtain that of a specific class of rational extensions of the hyperbolic Rosen-Morse system by means of supersymmetric techniques. Coherent states are constructed from the ladder operators obtained for the different systems. Some properties are analyzed and compared. In addition, we make use of a point canonical transformation in the derivation of the first realization of the ladder operators of the trigonometric Rosen-Morse system as differential operators. From this realization, we construct coherent states for which some properties are similarly analyzed

Theoretical Concepts of Quantum Mechanics

Quantum theory as a scientific revolution profoundly influenced human thought about the universe and governed forces of nature. Perhaps the historical development of quantum mechanics mimics the history of human scientific struggles from their beginning. This book, which brought together an international community of invited authors, represents a rich account of foundation, scientific history of quantum mechanics, relativistic quantum mechanics and field theory, and different methods to solve the Schrodinger equation. We wish for this collected volume to become an important reference for students and researchers

Morphological Studies of the CMB: Non-standard Models and Foregrounds

Recent measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) have allowed the most accurate determinations yet of the parameters of the standard CDM model, but the data also contain intriguing anomalies that are inconsistent with the assumptions of statistical isotropy and Gaussianity. This work investigates possible sources of such anomalies by studying the morphology of the CMB. An unexpected correlation is found between the CMB anisotropies and a temperature pattern generated in a Bianchi Type VIIh universe, i.e., an anisotropic universe allowing a universal rotation or vorticity. This model is found to be incompatible with other observations of the cosmological parameters, but correcting for such a component can serendipitously remove many of the anomalies from the WMAP sky. This result indicates that an alternative cosmological model producing such a morphology may be needed. A similar cross-correlation method applied to the microwave foregrounds studies the variation of the spectral behaviours of the Galactic emission processes across the sky. The results shed light on the unexpectedly low free-free emission amplitude as well as the nature of the anomalous dust-correlated emission that dominates at low frequencies. As a complementary method, phase statistics apply to situations where no a priori knowledge of the spatial structure informs the search for a non-Gaussian signal. Such statistics are applied to compact topological models as well as to foreground residuals, and a preliminary analysis shows that these may prove powerful tools in the study of non-Gaussianity and anisotropy