Quantum physics: what everyone needs to know
Quantum physics: what everyone needs to know
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量子物理学：每个人都需要知道的
DOI：
10.1080/00107514.2018.1515258
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发表时间：
2018
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2
通讯作者：
R. Shorter
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作者：
R. Shorter
多年来，已经有无数的尝试为外行人描述和揭开量子世界的神秘面纱。有些书错误地描述了这些思想的时间顺序和历史发展，而没有使用数学，但却没有指出这些努力的结果。另一些人则试图开门造车，在没有任何形式的概念论证的情况下陈述结果，还有一些人坚持过分强调波粒二象性。但最好的是让我们至少能开始联想到一些想法，然后在简单的阶段推动我们走向难以置信的事情，直到最后，我们不得不接受那一刻。雷默的书绝对属于最后一类。雷默煞费苦心地从量子行为的冰山一角入手，从日常大规模物理和工程的传统连续体中挑出几个，然后从它们推断出潜在描述的疯狂世界，以一种让人接受的方式引入一些想法。每一个非理性步骤的反直觉结果似乎都很自然，当他最终提出量子真空和希格斯场的概念时，雷默使这一切看起来都是世界上最自然的事情，或者更确切地说，也许不是那么令人难以接受。量子物理学是一种阅读的乐趣，而且几乎不可避免地会重读。除了那些已经在光子学和量子光学领域工作的人，每个读到这篇文章的人都会从它的详细描述和表达风格中学习。想法是有顺序的，但不是按时间顺序的；概念上的障碍，在预防方面是臭名昭著的
Over many years there have been countless attempts to describe and demystify the quantum world for the layman. Some books err on the side of a description of chronological and historical development of the ideas without the maths but fail to indicate where these efforts have led. Others try to cut to the chase by stating outcomes without any form of conceptual justification and yet others stick to an over emphasis on wave-particle duality. But the best limber us up with ideas we can at least begin to relate to then push us towards the unbelievable in easy stages leaving the wowok-we’ve-got-to-accept-that moment to the end. Raymer’s book is firmly in this last category. Raymer has been at pains to introduce ideas in a way that makes them palatable by picking on those few iceberg tips of quantum behaviour that sick out of the conventional continuum of everyday large-scale physics and engineering, and then by extrapolating from them into the mad world of the underlying description. The counter-intuitive consequences of each irrational step seem somehow natural and when he finally comes the concepts of quantum vacuum and Higgs field Raymer makes it all seem the most natural thing in the world, or rather perhaps not quite so mind-blowingly unacceptable.Quantum Physics is a pleasure to read and, almost inevitably, re-read. Except for those already working in the world of photonics and quantum optics, everyone reading this will learn from its detailed description and style of expression. Ideas are sequential but not chronological; the conceptual obstacles, that have been notorious in preventing