The Spin (eBook)

CONTENTS 6
Foreword 8
Spin, or actually: Spin and Quantum Statistics 10
1. Introduction to ‘Spin’ 10
2. The Discovery of Spin and of Pauli’s Exclusion Principle, Historically Speaking 15
3. Some of the Mathematics of Spin and a Theorem of Weyl 24
4. Stability of Non-Relativistic Matter in Arbitrary External Magnetic Fields 40
5. Electrons Interacting with the Quantized Electromagnetic Field Radiative Corrections to the Gyromagnetic Factor
6. Three Methods to Measure ge 49
7. KMS, Spin and Statistics, CPT 53
References 66
New Kinds of Quantum Statistics 70
1. Braids, Permutations, and In Between 71
2. Abelian Anyons 73
3. Nonabelian Anyons 75
References 78
Anyons and Lowest Landau Level Anyons 79
1. Introduction 80
2. The LLL-anyon model 87
3. LLL-anyon thermodynamics 93
4. Minimal Difference Partitions and Trees 102
5. Conclusion 106
References 106
Probing a Single Isolated Electron: New Measurements of the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant 112
1. Introduction 112
2. Quantum Cyclotron 113
3. Feedback Cooling 120
4. First One-Particle Self-Excited Oscillator 127
5. New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment 135
6. New Determination of the Fine Structure Constant 142
7. Almost Outdated 148
8. Conclusion 148
References 149
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics: Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg 153
1. The roots of spintronics and the discovery of GMR 153
2. From GMR to spintronics 155
3. Present and future technological impact of GMR and spintronics 159
References 162
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: From Spin Physics to Medical Diagnosis 164
1. Historical introduction 164
2. Basic physics of NMR 166
3. Principles of MRI 170
4. Lung MRI with polarized noble gases 176
5. Conclusion and prospects 190
References 193