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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"classical physics"”.
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YEAR ONE HUNDRED REFOUNDATION: A DIDACTIC PROPOSAL FOR A CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
In the late nineteenth century, classical physics seemed unassailable, firmly grounded in Newton’s mechanics for macroscopic bodies and Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory for radiation. This confidence was bolstered by the technological successes that marked a significant phase of the Industrial …
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Optimization Problems in Hilbert Space with POSS Complexes.
… with a survey of functional variation methods in classical physics, we derive the Hartree-Fock theory from canonical quantization. Following a development of density functional theory, many-body perturbation theory, and other techniques of computational condensed matter physics, we perform a …
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Hybrid classical-quantum optimization algorithms in electromagnetic applications
Physics-based computing based on Ising models has emerged as a powerful paradigm for tackling large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. This dissertation develops a unified Ising-based framework for electromagnetic design, with a particular focus on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) …
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Becoming Godless: Heidegger's Nietzsche and the Eternal Return
… thought, but it is often misread as either classical physics or a thought experiment. Insofar as Anglo-American and analytic interpretations reject eternal returns cosmology, their ethical implications are minimized. By contrast, Heideggers synthesized cosmological and ethical reading is …
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Orthogonal Transformations of the Onsager Phenomenological Equations and Minimum Entropy Production
… into one of the cornerstone theories in classical physics. | A limitation of equilibrium thermodynamics is that every process is assumed to be a succession of equilibrium states. These processes are called reversible processes and no entropy is produced when systems undergo such …
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Quasi-potential analysis of multi-variate stochastic differential equations
… these motifs using potential theory from classical physics is sometimes utilized. This thesis aims to be an expository and pedagogical introduction to this topic. Starting from first principles, I derive the deterministic equations describing these systems. Then, I derive the sources of …
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Bohmian Quantum Mechanics with Quantum Trajectories
… transport theory of motion to, among others, classically-minded applied scientists who probably have less of a commitment to traditional quantum mechanics. They were not the usual audience of quantum mechanics and simply choose to use a non-Copenhagen type interpretation to their advantage. …
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An Update on the Computational Theory of Hamiltonian Period Functions
<p>Lately, state-of-the-art calculation in both physics and mathematics has expanded to include the field of symbolic computing. The technical content of this dissertation centers on a few Creative Telescoping algorithms of our own design (Mathematica implementations are given as a supplement). …
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Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for infrared communications
… that can surpass the approaching limits of classical physics. Quantum optical communications and information, based on single-photon detectors offer the most promising possibility to reach new levels of data rate and communication security. Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors …
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Spatial Organization of Multicellular Living Systems
… organization of neighboring cells. Analogous to classical physics where transformations in the local structure give rise to phases and phase transitions, the changes in local structures in multicellular assemblies can be essential for a variety of vital processes including morphogenesis, wound …
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La meteorologia: cammino storico-epistemologico e studio del suo stato attuale di diffusione
… other scientific activities like, for instance, classical physics to which it is generally, although often unappropriately, associated. This work tries to highlight the peculiar epistemologic approach to modern meteorology, through the analysis of the phylosophical and historical paths that have …
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Quantum enhanced sensing and communication
… and superposition enable performance beyond what classical physics can provide in tasks of computing, communication and sensing. Quantum sensing aims to enhance the measurement precision in parameter estimation or error probability in hypothesis testing. The first part of this thesis focuses on …
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First-principles Studies of Lattice Vibration and Electron Topology
… science. It furnishes a framework beyond classical physics, enabling us to describe the exotic behaviour of electrons, the fundamental particles that compose matter, and phonons, the elementary energy that constitutes vibration. More importantly, the integration of quantum theory into …
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Le laboratoire épistolaire dans les oeuvres scientifiques de la marquise du Châtelet
… and the Leibnizians. According to the accepted physics argued by Fontenelle, Descartes, Malebranche, and Mairan, momentum, not force, was the essential quantity of motion. While Newtonians and Leibnizians agreed upon the significance of gravity and force, they bitterly disagreed with respect to …
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Le laboratoire épistolaire dans les oeuvres scientifiques de la marquise du Châtelet
… and the Leibnizians. According to the accepted physics argued by Fontenelle, Descartes, Malebranche, and Mairan, momentum, not force, was the essential quantity of motion. While Newtonians and Leibnizians agreed upon the significance of gravity and force, they bitterly disagreed with respect to …
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Quantum nonlinear optics: applications to quantum metrology, imaging, and information
… optics have given rise to a variety of nonclassical states of light that have been proven to surpass certain limitations set by classical physics. Namely, certain squeezed and entangled states have been shown to beat the shot-noise limit when making precision phase measurements in …
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Managing the Risk of Failure in Complex Systems: Insight into the Space Shuttle Challenger Failure
… theories derived from modern theories of physics. Further, it describes the foundation for each paradigm and illustrates how the paradigms may be applied to a particular system failure. Today, system failure commonly is analyzed using a paradigm grounded in classical or Newtonian physics. …
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The control of turbulent flows around bluff bodies by means of spanwise sinusoidal profiles
Bluff bodies form ubiquitous components of many engineered structures. They are often exposed to turbulent flows, and the subsequent shedding of vortices gives rise to aerodynamic forces with large fluctuating components. As a result, significant oscillations are induced, which can lead to …
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Heat transfer and condensation of water vapour from humid air in compact heat exchangers
In this thesis, an experimental and simulation study of heat transfer in water-to-air compact-plate heat exchanger is presented. A compact-plate heat exchanger made of polypropylene, in which flow pattern is maintained as counter-current, was constructed to conduct the experiments. Experiments were …
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Quantum Materials based on the Kagome Lattice
A central concept in condensed matter physics is the “emergence” of new macroscopic properties from complex microscopic interactions between many constituents. Quantum materials refer to a subset of condensed matter systems whose emergent properties defy description from classical physics or …
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