In memory of Akira Tonomura : physicist and electron microscopist / editors, Kazuo Fujikawa, Yoshimasa A Ono.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fujikawa, K., editor.

Ono, Yoshimasa A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics.

Electron microscopy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This memorial volume in honor of Dr Akira Tonomura is to commemorate his enormous contributions to fundamental physics in addition to the basic technology of electron microscopy. Dr Tonomura passed away on May 2, 2012 at the age of 70. He was Fellow of Hitachi, Ltd., Group Director of Single Quantum Dynamics Research Group of RIKEN, Principal Investigator of the FIRST Tonomura Project, and Professor of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. The book consists of: 1) contributions from distinguished physicists, who participated in the "Tonomura FIRST International Symposium

Contents:

Preface; Contents; Recollections of Akira Tonomura; Gauge Theory and Aharonov-Bohm Effect; Application of Electron Microscopy to Quantum Mechanics and Materials Sciences; Quantum Physics; Photograph Collection of Akira Tonomura; My Dream of Ultimate Holography Electron Microscope; 1. Background; 2. Aims of the research and main scientific problems to solve; 3. Originality of our methodology/approach; 4. Experimental or theoretical procedures; 5. Results and findings; 6. Expected industrial and social implications; References; Biography of Akira Tonomura (April 1942 - May 2012); References

Tonomura FIRST International Symposium on "Electron Microscopy and Gauge Fields"1. Introduction; 2. Presentations on Day 1 (May 9, 2012); 3. Presentations on Day 2 (May 10, 2012); 4. Comments on Akira Tonomura and his research; Thank You and Farewell to Tonomura-kun; Acknowledgment; References; Remembering Akira Tonomura; References; Akira Tonomura: An Experimental Visionary; References; Dr. Akira Tonomura: Master of Experimental Physics; 1. Goodbye Akira; 2. Tonomura and electron microscope; 3. Prof. Yang and Tonomura; 4. Aharonov-Bohm effect and double-slit experiment

5. ISQM and quantum physics References; Topology and Gauge Theory in Physics; References; On the Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Why Heisenberg Captures Nonlocality Better Than Schrödinger; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical recollection of development of the Aharonov-Bohm effect; 3. Wave or particle? Heisenberg's picture re-assessed; 4. Discussion; References; How the Test of Aharonov-Bohm Effect Was Initiated at Hitachi Laboratory; 1. Introduction; 2. From Tonomura's birth to joining HCRL; 3. Tonomura's early research activities at HCRL; 4. Verification experiments of the Aharonov-Bohm effect

5. Study on magnetic flux lines (vortices) in superconductors 6. FIRST Tonomura project to develop a 1.2 MV holography electron microscope; 7. Quotation on R&D by Professor Ryoji Uyeda; Acknowledgments; References; Some Reflections Concerning Geometrical Phases; 1. Introduction; 2. Single massive particle with Aharonov-Bohm effect and Berry phase; 3. Correlated many-particle systems-Fermi systems with Cooper pairing; 4. Majorana fermions; Acknowledgments; References; Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm Interferometers: Decoherence and Thermoelectric Transport; 1. Introduction

2. Principles of decoherence 3. Interference in closed rings, mesoscopic persistent currents; 4. The model; 5. A-B oscillations of the interferometer and their decoherence; 5.1. A simple interferometer: no vibronic coupling; 5.2. Interferometer with vibronic coupling; 6. Generalities on thermoelectric transport; 7. Interference effects and their decoherence in thermoelectric transport; 8. Examples and discussion; 9. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Spin Textures and Gauge Fields in Frustrated Magnets; 1. Gauge field in magnets; 2. Skyrmion in helical magnets

3. Dynamics of skyrmions and skyrmion crystal

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 27, 2014).

ISBN:

981-4472-90-5

OCLC:

880530898