- Date: March 27, 2009
- Venue: Budapest Tech | Bécsi út 96/B, H-1034 Budapest, Hungary
Gábor Szabó: Life of Pauli and his Role in the History of Science
In this introductory paper we will outline Pauli’s scientific biography and present a brief overview of his „background physical” interests and motivations.
Rudiger Voss: Pauli and CERN, LHC Perspectives
The final years of Wolfgang Pauli's career as a physicist were closely intertwined with the foundation and the early years of CERN. Today, CERN hosts Pauli's scientific legacy in its archives. In my talk, I will retrace Pauli's relations with CERN, highlight some important milestones of CERN's history, and end with future prospects, focusing on the status and the scientific goals of the LHC project.
Vesztergombi György: Pauli and the Modern Particle Physics
During the time of Pauli the physical world picture went through revolutionary changes, when the classical mechanics of Newton-Maxwell was transformed to relativity of Einstein and kvantumechanics of many other actors. During this talk the similarities and differencies will be discussed between this and present age. Special emphasis will be given to the expected break-throughs at LHC, the new accelerator in CERN, which can play the similar role as the discovery of radiactivity and spectral lines about 100 years ago.
Zalán Horváth: Pioneers of Quantummechanics in Hungary
The pioneering age of Pauli's and other's quantummechanics is earmarked in Hungary also by appearence of outstanding physicists. Without going in full details achievements of Rudolf Ortvay, P. Neuberger, S. Novobatzky, Lajos Janossy and G. Marx.
László Nádai, Péter Várlaki, József Bokor: Understanding Synchronicity in Perspective of Pauli-Jung „Correspondence” – Hungarians Involved
The authors of the presentation have been trying to synchronize since 1993 the early quantum-physics, the Kalmanian representation theory, the Jungian analytic psychology, mythological hermeneutics of Carl Kerényi and certain aesthetical categories. In the center of this heuristic and epistemological experiment the number ‘137’, the so-called (inverse) Fine Structure Constant is placed in the circle of Numberarchetypes, together with the scientific cooperation of Pauli and Jung. We summarize this weird attempt, and give a concise summary of understanding the synchronicity and symmetry according to the Pauli-Jung’s approach, where-playing with the dominant patterns and motives- Hungary and Hungarians are involved.
József Bokor, László Nádai: Quantum Control
The introduction of control theory to quantum systems as applied in chemical reactions, quantum computation or quantum metrology is important not only in the specific implementations of experiments but also since it provides new insight into several theoretical questions. Control theory considers dynamical systems described by its state evolution and by obtaining measurements from states. The state of a quantum system can be represented by a vector element of a Hilbert space and the state evolution follows the Schrödinger equation as defined by the quantum Hamiltonian of the particular phenomena. In finite dimensional situation this formalism leads to the definition of a control system over Lie groups where the control action appears in affine form.
The first question that may be asked is that what type of state transfer can be obtained by properly designing the control actions. This means of how to choose a piecewise constant control or by switching the external electromagnetic fields. This last control strategy can mathematically be represented as switching among the vector fields in the tangent space of the particular state space.
To answer these questions one needs to study the controllability and reachability of quantum systems. This talk will address this problem and will reveal results form control theory like controllability of bilinear affine systems over Lie groups leading to the various forms of Lie algebraic rank conditions similar to that given by R. E. Kalman when formulating the basis for state space theory of dynamical systems.