ABSTRACT

Quantum Physics is the solid basis of most of our understanding of nature and has been the driver of many technological advances. The trilogy Power of the Invisible: The Quantessence of Reality gives a coherent account of this huge domain of knowledge, which is linked to some fifty Nobel prizes and is one of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century. This quantum story follows three lines in parallel: a pictorial, an explanatory and a mathematical one.

volume Volume I

The journey: from classical to quantum worlds

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chapter Chapter I.1

The gems of classical physics

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chapter Chapter I.2

The age of geometry, information and quantum

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chapter Chapter I.3

Universal constants, scales and units

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chapter Chapter I.4

The quest for basic building blocks

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volume Volume II

Quantessence: how quantum theory works

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chapter Chapter II.1

The quantum formalism: states

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chapter Chapter II.2

Observables, measurements and uncertainty

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chapter Chapter II.3

Interference

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chapter Chapter II.4

Teleportation and computation

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chapter Chapter II.5

Particles, fields and statistics

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chapter Chapter II.6

Symmetries and their breaking

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volume Volume 3

Primary Sources 2000–2020

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chapter Chapter III.1

The structural hierarchy of matter

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chapter Chapter III.2

The splendid diversity of condensed matter

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chapter Chapter III.3

The electron collective

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chapter Chapter III.4

SCALE dependence

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chapter Chapter III.5

Power of the invisible

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