The Wonder of Quantum Spin

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Indubala I. Satija is a Physics Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating with a Masters in physics from Bombay University, she got her doctorate in theoretical physics at Columbia University. She has published numerous scientific articles on the diverse range of topics that include topological insulators, ultracold atoms, quantum phase transitions, solitons and classical and quantum chaos. In 2016, she wrote a book, Butterfly in the Quantum World with Douglas Hofstadter. Her current focus of research is topological states of matter.

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The Wonder of Quantum Spin discusses the key role quantum spin continues to play in many frontiers of physics that include the study of new exotic states of matter, quantum information and quantum computing. Spin tales also include the story of MRI - one of the most important applications of quantum science to humanity.

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• Preface

• Prelude

• Introduction

• PART I: The Mystique of Quantum Spin From Rodrigues and Hamilton...To Pauli, Dirac and Hesteness

• 1/2. The 18th Century- The Unification of Algebra and Geometry: Glimpses of Quantum Spin

• 1: 1897- Landmarks in the History of the Discovery of Spin.

• 3/2: 1928- "Found Beautiful"-The Dirac Equation.

• Part II: Marbles That Fell From Dirac Equation: Handedness, Majorana Fermion, Spin-Statistics, QED...

• 2: 1929- Weyl and Majorana Fermions, "Närrisch" Neutrino, and the Revelation of Parity Violation.

• 5/2: 1933- A Peek Inside the Nucleus: From Proton-Neutron to Flavored and Colored Quarks.

• 3: 1933- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and (N)MRI.

• 7/2: 1939- Spin-Statistics and the Stability of the Universe.

• 4: 1947- The Lore of the g-factor.

• Part III: Quantum Spin and Seminal Discoveries Past Quantum Revolution

• 9/2: 1960- Twister Theory: Spinors Describe Spacetime.

• 5: 1980s- Spin, Spinor, and the Geometric Phase.

• 11/2: Pseudo-Spin-1/2 Models and Topological States of Matter.

• Part IV: Quantum Computing: Second Quantum Revolution?

• 6: A Prelude to Quantum Computing.

• 2 : Spin and Quantum Information.

• Appendix A Spinor Is the Square Root of a Null Vector

• Appendix B The Magic of Complex Numbers

• Coda

• Gratitude