The Quantum Nature of Materials

Abstract An important step in teaching critical reading for online civic reasoning is building teachers’ own acceptance of and comfort with screen literacies, understanding them not as alternative to gold-standard book literacies but as normative. To do so, teachers must better understand how web-based texts, and the reading of them, differ from the “classical” critical reading most teachers are used to. This article examines the “quantum” nature of web-based texts—their fundamental instability, their reader constructedness, and their nature as processes rather than objects—and relates these features to hyper-reading and other reading strategies that research shows allow engaged readers to screen-read critically.

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The Quantum Nature of Light

The Story of Light Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-64316-8_4 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 49-58

Author(s):

Dennis F. Vanderwerf

Keyword(s):

Quantum Nature

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Consideration of analogies between magnetic and quantum notices for molecular network

ITM Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/itmconf/20181601006 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

pp. 01006

Author(s):

Henryk Piech ◽

Jerzy Jelonkiewicz ◽

Lukasz Laskowski ◽

Magdalena Laskowska

Keyword(s):

Magnetic Properties ◽

Spin Glass ◽

Transition Theory ◽

Molecular Network ◽

Quantum Calculation ◽

Pragmatic Approach ◽

Quantum Properties ◽

Quantum Nature ◽

Quantum Interpretation ◽

Almost All

Magnetic properties of spin glass materials [9,13] are close to quantum interpretation in their nature description [17]. Therefore, we can look for possible kinds of analogies in process of defining theoretic and practice conventions, rules and applications of the specific characteristics in elaboration quantum calculation strategies. We have not investigated possibilities to create directly quantum calculation units and practice calculation structures like qubits, registers, gates etc. [4,18], but dealing with spin and quantum definitions and descriptions we can try to involve these notices from different domains. Such a pragmatic approach only intuitively gives chances to create the transition theory and implement it even partially. Obviously, almost all of us have heard about quantum factorization, cryptography or teleportation but it is obtained as a result of exploration casually selected quantum properties and adapting them to mathematic problems. In our approach, we carefully investigate involutions among spin and quantum nature looking at possible implementation in molecular network.

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TOPOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE SPECIFIC HEAT

International Journal of Modern Physics B ◽

10.1142/s0217979209063353 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 23 (20n21) ◽

pp. 4170-4185 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

C. M. SARRIS ◽

A. N. PROTO

Keyword(s):

Phase Space ◽

Specific Heat ◽

Quantum System ◽

Uncertainty Principle ◽

Positive Definite ◽

Metric Tensor ◽

Quantum Nature ◽

Generalized Phase Space

We describe how the specific heat of a quantum system is related to a positive definite metric defined on the generalized phase space in which the dynamics and thermodynamics of the system take place. This relationship is given through the components of a second-rank covariant metric tensor, enhancing a topological nature of the specific heat. We also present two examples where it can be seen how the uncertainty principle imposes strong constraints on the values achieved by the specific heat showing its inherent quantum nature.

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Experimental Signatures of the Quantum Nature of Radiation Reaction in the Field of an Ultraintense Laser

Physical Review X ◽

10.1103/physrevx.8.031004 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 94

Author(s):

K. Poder ◽

M. Tamburini ◽

G. Sarri ◽

A. Di Piazza ◽

S. Kuschel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Radiation Reaction ◽

Quantum Nature

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Planck’s Derivation of E=hν

The Quantum Cookbook ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198827856.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 19-34

Author(s):

Jim Baggott

Keyword(s):

Albert Einstein ◽

Black Body ◽

Black Body Radiation ◽

Theoretical Interpretation ◽

Irreversible Processes ◽

Second Law ◽

Statistical Interpretation ◽

Classical Structure ◽

Quantum Nature ◽

Quantum Revolution

Planck was unwilling to accept Boltzmann’s statistical interpretation of the second law. He therefore needed to find a way to show how irreversible processes could result from continuous matter. Planck chose the physics of black body radiation as a battleground. After discovering his radiation law in October 1900, he sought a deeper theoretical interpretation for it. Now thermodynamics is not the most obvious place to look for evidence of the quantum nature of radiation and, in an ‘act of desperation’, Planck had to torture the theory in a way that would eventually allow this conclusion to emerge from an entirely classical structure. Planck’s derivation heralded the very beginning of the quantum revolution, but only in promise, not in deed. The revolution began in earnest in 1905 with the help of Albert Einstein.

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