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The Spin

Poincaré Seminar 2007

Birkhäuser
  • Articles from leading persons in the field,
  • among them Albert Fert who was awared the Nobel prize in Physics in 2007
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematical Physics (PMP, volume 55)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. New Kinds of Quantum Statistics

    • Frank Wilczek
    Pages 61-69
  3. Anyons and Lowest Landau Level Anyons

    • Stéphane Ouvry
    Pages 71-103
  4. The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics: Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg

    • Vincent Cros, Albert Fert, Pierre Sénéor, Frédéric Petroff
    Pages 147-157

About this book

This book is the eighth in a series of Proceedings for the S´ eminaire Poincar´ e, which is directed towards a large audience of physicists and of mathematicians. The goal of this seminar is to provide up to date information about general topics of great interest in physics. Both the theoretical and experimental aspects are covered, with some historical background. Inspired by the Bourbaki seminar in mathematics in its organization, hence nicknamed “Bourbaphy”, this Poincar´ e SeminarisheldattheInstitutHenriPoincar´ einParis,withcontributionsprepared inadvance.Particularcareisdevotedtothepedagogicalnatureofthepresentation so as to ful?ll the goal of being readable by a large audience of scientists. This new volume of the Poincar´ e Seminar series “The Spin” corresponds to the eleventh such Seminar, held on December 8, 2007. It describes how this once mysterious quantum reality called spin has become ubiquitous in modern physics from the most theoretical aspects down to the most practical applications of miniaturizing electronic and computer devices or helping medical diagnosis.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Service de Physique Théorique Orme des Merisiers, CEA - Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

    Bertrand Duplantier

  • Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel Département Physique, ENS Paris, Paris CX 05, France

    Jean-Michel Raimond

  • Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France

    Vincent Rivasseau

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