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But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: ’O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. W. H. Auden It is hard to think of a subject as rich, complex, and important as time. From the practical point of view it governs and organizes our lives (most of us are after all attached to a wrist watch) or it helps us to wonderfully ?nd our way in unknown territory with the global positioning system (GPS). More generally it constitutes the heartbeat of modern technology. Time is the most precisely measured quantity, so the second de?nes the meter or the volt and yet, nobody knows for sure what it is, puzzling philosophers, artists, priests, and scientists for centuries as one of the enduring enigmas of all cultures. Indeed time is full of contrasts: taken for granted in daily life, it requires sophisticated experimental and theoretical treatments to be accurately “produced. ” We are trapped in its web, and it actually kills us all, but it also constitutes the stuff we need to progress and realize our objectives. There is nothing more boring and monotonous than the tick-tock of a clock, but how many fascinating challenges have physicists met to realize that monotony: Quite a number of Nobel Prize winners have been directly motivated by them or have contributed 1 signi?cantly to time measurement.

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Author:   Gonzalo Muga ,  Andreas Ruschhaupt ,  Adolfo del Campo
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2009
Volume:   789
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9783642031731

ISBN 10:   3642031730
Pages:   423
Publication Date:   16 December 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Memories of Old Times: Schlick and Reichenbach on Time in Quantum Mechanics.- The Time-Dependent Schr#x00F6;dinger Equation Revisited: Quantum Optical and Classical Maxwell Routes to Schr#x00F6;dinger#x2019;s Wave Equation.- Post Pauli#x2019;s Theorem Emerging Perspective on Time in Quantum Mechanics.- Detector Models for the Quantum Time of Arrival.- Dwell-Time Distributions in Quantum Mechanics.- The Quantum Jump Approach and Some of Its Applications.- Causality in Superluminal Pulse Propagation.- Experiments on Quantum Transport of Ultra-Cold Atoms in Optical Potentials.- Quantum Post-Exponential Decay.- Timescales in Quantum Open Systems: Dynamics of Time Correlation Functions and Stochastic Quantum Trajectory Methods in Non-Markovian Systems.- Double-Slit Experiments in the Time Domain.- Optimal Time Evolution for Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians.- Atomic Clocks.

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