Gemma Lavender Quantum Physics in Minutes Quercus 2017 PDF
Gemma Lavender Quantum Physics in Minutes Quercus 2017 PDF
Gemma Lavender Quantum Physics in Minutes Quercus 2017 PDF
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QUANTUM PHYSICS
· IN MINUTES
The inner workings of our universe
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Gemma Lavender
QUANTUM
PHYSICS
IN MINUTES
GEMMA LAVENDER
QUANTUM
PHYSICS
IN MINUTES
GEMMA LAVENDER
Quercus
CONTENTS
Introduction 6
The birth of quantum physics 8
Energy levels and spectral lines 56
Particle physics 88
The wave function 142
The language of quantum physics 184
Quantum physics and the Universe 212
The theory of everything 252
Multiverses 286
The spooky Universe 304
Quantum applications 326
Quantum biology 356
Quantum computing 370
The future of quantum physics 390
Glossary 408
Index 412
Acknowledgements 416
Introduction
6 INTRODUCTION
others, it implies a multiverse of parallel realities where every
possibility is played out. There's no direct evid ence yet that this
'many-worlds' inte rpretation is correct, but the mathemati cs
cert ainly suggests it is possible.
INTRODUCTION 7
What is quantum physics?
Induced
Lines of Lmes of
magnetic field
magnetic flux magnetic flux
around wire +
a. v. B = o
Rate of change of
magnetic flux
3. v X E
as / Rate of change
at of electric flux
4. V x B = ~ 0 (J + £ 0
aE )
In Maxwell's equations, E represents the flux of the
at
electric f1eld, 8 the magnetic flux, p the charge within a
volume of space, and J the current flowing in a conductor.
Thermodynamics
and entropy
A longside the discovery of electromagnetism, the study of
M. energy in the form of heat led to another 19th-century
scientific revolution. What became known as the laws of
thermodynamics introduced severa l concepts that wou ld prove
critica l to quantum theory.
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Long-wavelength,
low-energy light
Metals susceptible to the
photoelectric effect have a loosely
bound electron in their outermost
electron shell (see page 60)
Einstein's photon theory
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Stationary
electron
~'e
\ - Scattering
\ _ angle
Incoming photon
A few particles
strike gold nuclei
head-on and are
reflected back
Phosphorescent
detector screen
Some particles
are deflected by
close encounters
with nuclei
It was Danish phys icist Niels Bohr who began to make sense of
this by applying the nascent quantum theory to it. He depicted
electrons as orbiting on ly in stab le orbits, each with a specific
energy level. For an electron to drop into a lower orb it, it must
give up some energy, releasing a photon with an energy equal
to the difference between the two orbits. Similarly, in order to
jump to a higher orbit an electron must absorb a photon with
sufficient energy. This is the basic theory behind the science
of spectroscopy (see page 56), and the difference between
energy levels is given by an equation cal led the Planck relation
[shown on page 29)
Nucleus
2s orbital
(spherical)
2p orbitals 3s orbital
(lobes] (spherical]
Relativity
Spectr oscopy owes its power to the f act that the wave lengths
of light em itted or absorbed by atoms are intimately lin ked to
their interna l structure, and are therefore dictated by quantum
interactions happenin g between electrons at various energy
levels. As such, it's an id ea l provin g ground for discovering and
understanding many aspects of the quantum world.
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Prism or spectroscope splits light
mto different wavelengths
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Incandescent Broad spectrum of light
light source
Emission
Absorption
The simpl est element - hydrogen - usually has atoms cons isting
of a single proton orbited by a lone electron. Helium consists
of two protons and usually two neutrons orb ited by two
electrons. At the other extreme, the heaviest known element
has 118 protons, 118 electrons and 176 neutrons.
Helium Carbon-12
2 protons, 2 neutrons, 6 protons, 6 neutrons,
2 electrons 6 electrons
Electron shells
1 0 1s 0 1
2 0 2s 0 1
1 2p 1, 0, -1 3
3 0 3s 0 1
1 3p 1, 0, -1 3
2 3d 2, 1, 0, -1, -2 5
4 0 4s 0 1
1 4p 1, 0, -1 3
2 4d 2, 1, 0, -1, -2 5
3 4f 3, 2, 1, 0, 7
-1, -2, -3
Electron cascades
through energy
levels, losing energy
at each step
Energy provided
by high-energy Energy released
photon as lower-energy
photon as electron
drops back to
ground state
Ground state
(lowest energy level)
2. Excited
state
Electron drops
back to lower
Electronjumps
to higher energy
level
3.Ground
state
Electron subshells
• ls 2p
.. _
3d
Quantum degeneracy
3s 3p 3d
_ _ _ _ _ Degeneracy
=9
Degeneracy= 4
Non-degenerate
1s ground state
Hund's rules
Th e rules invo lve adding up the spin (s) and orb ital angular
momentum(/) of all individua l electrons to fmd totals denoting
Sand L, respectively Added together, these then give a 'tota l
angular momentum quantum num ber' (J). Th e rules themselves
are shown opposite, but it's their imp lications that matter most·
Hund's rules imply that all electrons in singly occupied position s
must be sp inning in the same directio n, and also that all empty
pos ition s must f1rst be filled before electrons can beg in pairing up.
Boron
(5 electrons)
Nitrogen
(7 electrons)
Oxygen
(8 electrons)
Neon
(10 electrons)
1s subshell 2s subshell
2p sub shell
Fraunhofer lines
A s well as dark absorption lines, electrons can also cre ate bright
M. 'em1ss1on lines' by releasmg photon s as they tran s1tlon f rom an
exc ited st at e t o a less excited one. Em ission li nes have wavelengths
equiva lent t o the diffe ren ce in ener gy involved in a trans ition, and
are produced by energized gases, for instance in neon strip lights or
th e nebulae surrou nding newborn sta r s.
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Tracks left by the
passage of subatomic
charged particles
through the Big European
Bubble Chamber at the
The Standard Model
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Quarks
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The three generations of quarks
Up Down
quark quar k
(Mass (Mass:
2.3 MeV/c 2) 4.8 MeV/c 2)
Hadrons
Pau li's exclusion principle states that part icles with identical
quantum numbe r s cannot occupy the same space. The add ition
of a colour property allows quarks that would otherwise have
t he same quantum numbers to get around t hi s. There are three
'colours' red, green and blue (plus ant iquarks that are anti r ed,
antigreen or antiblue]. Co lours and the ir antico lours attract, and
can bind two quarks in to a meson. The three colours also attract
each other, lead ing to ba r yons formed of one red, one blue and one
green quark. A 'boson' pa r t icle called a gluon, meanwhi le, transm its
t he strong force between quarks.
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Leptons
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The three generations of leptons
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particle
(Mass
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<0.17 MeV/c 2)
Electron Electron
(Mass neutrino
0.51 MeV/c 2) (Mass:
<0.000 002 MeV/c 2)
Dark matter
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Electric charge
Spin+ 12
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The term 'dipole' indicates that a f1eld has both north and south
poles. Magnetic monopoles with just one pole have not yet been
found to exist in the Universe, though they are proposed by
some advanced theories, such as superstrings [see page 274).
STRONG FORCE
Symbol Name Mass Charge Spin
(GeV/c 2)
g Gluon 0 0 1
HIGGS FIELD
Symbol Name Mass Charge Spin
(GeV/c 2)
H Higgs 126 0 0
boson
Bose-Einstein
condensates
he fact that bosons don't obey Pau li's exclusion princip le means
T there 1s no l1m1t as to how many can be packed 1nto the same
energy level with the same quantum numbers. In the 1920s, Albert
Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose r eal ized this cou ld have some
strange consequences. Their Bose- Einstein statistics described
all the quantum states in which a gas of bosons could exist.
Ein ste in wondered what wou ld happen if those bosons we r e chil led
to j ust a few degrees above absolute zero. He proposed that all
the bosons would sink to the lowest possible energy level, creating
a new form of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate.
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between quarks by between baryons by
gluon particles pion particles
Weak force
The weak force plays the key role in beta decay, a type of
radioactivity in wh ich neutrons change spontaneously into protons
and emit electrons. The reason for its short range is because
neutrons in atomic nucle i must 'borrow' energy from the Universe in
order to decay and em it one of the weak force's carriers (a charged
w• or w- boson, or a neutral Z boson). These bosons are far more
massive t han a neutron, and the cosmic debt co llector doesn't loan
this much energy out for long; hence, such bosons on ly last for one
tril lion trill ionths of a second before be ing absorbed by another
particle in order to repay the energy def1c it Beta decay is also a
ch iral interaction [see page 104) the preservat ion of 'handedness'
he lps determine which particu lar interactions can occur.
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Carbon-10 nucleus Boron-10 nucleus
6 protons, 4 neutrons 5 protons, 5 neutrons
Gamma decay
The em itted gamma ray doesn't always escape into the world at
large. Often it wi ll co llide with an orbiting electron in the atom's
ground-state K-shell, giving that ele ctro n enough energy to
escape f rom the atom entirely via the photoelectric effect.
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The wave-particle world
aying that particles also act as waves is one thing, but what
S does this mea n in reality? The particle isn't a physical wave
like a water wave on the ocean or a sou nd wave moving through
the air Instead, it's a description of the probabi lity that a particle
will have a given location or mom entum when measured. Thi s, in
turn, produces many results that we interpret as particl es acting
like waves For example, if yo u collect a large number of particles,
such as a laser beam of photons or a beam of electrons fwed
from a hot electrode, t hen the spread of probabilities means
that you can conduct experiments that show them acting en
masse li ke waves, rather than discrete particles.
POSITION
Applying Copenhagen
Wavefunction
collapses
Measurement
Quantum probabilities
Low-energy particle
Position
Likely position
of particle
Position
Likely positions
of particle
The Born rule
Wave function #2
Resultant
wave function
Schrodinger's wave
equation
M any quantum mechanical concepts are so abstract that
words and illustrations can never hope to describe them
completely. Instead, they can only be fully explained using the
language of mathematics. The most important mathematical
description of all is offered by Schrodinger's wave equation.
Developed by physicist Erwin Schrodinger in 1926, the equation
was initially used to describe the quantum states of electrons
in atoms. However, it can be adapted to describe quantum
systems on any scale, up to the size of the Universe itself.
Reduced Planck
constant, h/2n
a2W(x)
2m
a 2 -t:U(x)W(x) = EW(x)
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Mass of particle
X
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Potential energy
of system
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Total energy of
system
Partial derivative
of wave function
(rate of change in
dimension x)
Quantum harmonic
oscillators
1
-
Laplacian
(measures the
divergence of Speed of Reduced Planck
wave function light constant, h/2n
in space)
The Dirac equation
It was shy British genius Paul Dirac who resolved this in 1928. His
variation of the wave equation works for all particles with a spin
of 112, meaning that, unlike the Klein-Gordon equation, it can be
used to describe the energy levels of relativistic hydrogen atoms.
However, as with the Klein-Gordon equation, some of the Dirac
equation's solutions appeared to suggest particles with negative
energy - a physical impossibility that doesn't make sense in the
everyday world or even in our quantum picture of reality
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constant (h/2rr) light
'Four gradient'
Antimatter
\ Annihilation
transforms particles
into pure energy
Positron
High-energy
Annihilation between electrons
and positrons produces a pair of
gamma-ray photons each carrying
energy of 511 keV- the same as the
rest mass of an electron.
The Coulomb barrier
In atoms, this barrier is called the Coulomb barrier. It's not a force
f1eld, but an electrostatic interaction between nuclei. At very close
distances to the nucleus, it is attractive, but it becomes repulsive
just a little further away. This makes it very good at keeping alpha
particles in and very good at keeping other atomic nuclei out
The attractive Coulomb barrier that traps an alpha particle
in the nucleus has an energy around 26 million eV, and should,
according to classical physics, be insurmountable. Similarly, two
nuclei trying to join together in a nuclear-fusion reaction require
enough energy to overcome a repulsive Coulomb barrier.
Distance between
positive charges
Strong force
-attracts protons and
neutrons to each other
Quantum model
Particle
wave
function
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Heisenberg's
uncertainty principle
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The uncertainty principle states that certain complimentary
pairs of quantum properties (position and momentum, or
energy and time) cannot both be determined with perfect
accuracy in the same measurement.
Uncertainty in action
Properties remain
superposed
Interference between
Particle in wider wavefunctions causes
environment superposition to
• •' - - - - collapse
Wave functions
from particles
in larger object
Wave functions
from environment
Schrodinger's cat
Sch r i:id inger argued that such a situat ion was intuitively absu r d,
but he rea lly only ad dress ed an extr eme rea ding of Cope nh agen
in which a conscious obse r ver is the cause of t he wave f unction's
co llapse Nie ls Bohr, for one, argued for a br oader def inition of
obse r vation in t erms of interaction with macroscopic syste ms
including the Geiger counte r and the cat itself, which wou ld
ther ef ore trigger co llapse long befo r e the box was opened.
Source of
electrons
Electron
detectors
Wave function
collapses to more
localized form
depending on
where electron
is detected
Quantum mathematics
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of wave function
position and time) [rate of change
with respect to
time)
Hilbert space
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Feynman diagrams
Particle 1
Particles after
Gauge boson
Particle 2
Electron excitation
Photon emitted
absorbed
Eigenfunctions
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Qop 'Pi= qi 'Pi
Wave function
Eigenfunctions
The correspondence
principle
uantum mechanics deal s with the phys ics of t he ve r y small
Q and, as we've seen, quantum behaviour 1s ve r y differen t to
the macrosco pi c behaviour in our everyday world dominated
by classica l phys ics But t here mu st co me a po int in scale at
which quantum and c lass ica l behaviour overlap. At this point,
calcu lations conducted using quantum mathematics mu st
correspo nd to the re sults of classica l mathemati cs.
Quantum
probability
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quantum realm
t's often said that quantum mechanics is the physics of very
I small things, and we know we don't see quantum mechanical
behaviour in the large - scale everyday world; the position and
momentum of people and cars and buildings all seem very precise
to us. So at what point does the correspondence principle
take hold? What is the largest piece of matter that can exhibit
quantum mechanical properties?
T he orgins of the Big Bang theory lie in the fact that space itself
is expandi ng [see page 228). 1fthe Universe is getting bigger now,
th en it mu st have been smaller in th e past. Extrapolating bac kwards,
scientists believe that everyth ing in today's Universe originated at a
single point in space around 13.81 billion years ago.
Contr ary to popular belief, however, the Big Bang does not expla in
what caused th e birth of the Universe, on ly what happened
immed iat ely after wards. The Big Bang itself is shrouded in mystery
f or the fwst t ril lion tril lion trillionth [10-36 ) of a second conditions
were so intense [all the energy in the Universe packed into a volume
th e size of an apple with a t emperature in excess of 1032 °C) that our
understan ding of physics utterly fa lls apart. This earliest fra ction of a
second was dominated by t he unknown rule s of quantum gravity that
marry quantum physics with Ein stei n's re lativity [see page 48). Even
the Big Bang itself may have been the r esu lt of a random quantum
fluctuation that allowed the mass- energy of the Universe to pop into
exist ence in a similar way to today's virtual particles [see page 136).
F or 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe was a sea
of plasma, a state of matter within wh ich atomic nuclei and
free - floating electrons formed a kind of electrica lly charged
'soup'. Photons of light attempting to travel through the
Universe would continually scatter off the electrons, ricocheting
like light trapped in fog. However, as the Universe expanded, it
cooled, and the temperature dropped sufficiently for electrons
to be captured in orbit around atomic nuclei. As they were
absorbed, complete atoms formed for the fwst time [mostly
hydrogen, with smal l proportions of helium and lithium), and
photons were at last able to travel unhindered through space.
T he furthe st dist ance into t he Universe that our tele scopes can
see is the 'co sm ic horizon'. Lig ht f r om anyth in g beyond a certain
distance sim ply hasn't had enoug h t ime to r each us si nce the Big
Ba ng. Astronomers calculate the distance to the cosm ic horizon
at 46.5 bi llion lig ht yea r s, mean ing that Earth lie s in the cen tre
of a spherical volume 93 billion light years across, the limit of our
observab le Universe. The reaso n that we can see so far, despite
the Un ive rs e be ing 13.81 bill ion years old, is because of cosm ic
expa nsion light left the most distant visible galaxies 13 bi ll ion
years ago, but they have since been carried even furthe r from us
One idea is that during inflation the Universe was filled with a
'false vacuum', a higher energy state that, at least in our part
of the Universe, decayed back to a ground state. The energy
of this false vacuum drove the increased expansion. Alan
Guth suggested that it might on ly decay in some parts of the
Universe, creating 'bubbles' of different expansion rates. Each
bubble would form its own isolated universe, one of many in a
larger multiverse. In a similar ve in, Andrei Linde developed a
model of chaotic inflation that proposes an eternal multiverse
arising from a quantum foam in which fluctuations can spark
new Big Bangs and new periods of inflation in different regions.
The vagaries of quantum fluctuations could, therefore, mean
our Universe is just one among an infinite number of universes.
n the wake of the Big Bang and inflation, the Universe is stil l
I expand ing today, a fact that was discovered by the American
astronomer Edwin Hubble. Prior to 1925, nobody knew that
there were galaxies beyond our Milky Way; most scientists
assumed that the mysterious 'spira l nebulae' were part of our
own star system. However, using what was then the world's
largest telescope, Hubble resolved individual stars in these
sp iral nebulae. Using an ing eni ous method to calculate their
intrinsic brightness he realized they were millions of light years
away, and that spiral nebulae must be galaxies in their own right.
What was more, light from these remote ga laxies was stretched
to lon ger, redder wavelength s by expanding space and the
Doppler effect (see opposite). Not only are galaxies generally
moving away from Earth, but the more distant ones are moving
away more rapidly, an effect known as Hubble's law. It turns out
that the Universe is currently expanding at 22.4 kilometres (13 9
miles) per second per hundred million light years of space.
Small Universe
RECENT PAST
DISTANT PAST
Dark energy
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Sunlike star in White dwarf pulls
binary system material away from
evolves into companion star, White dwarf
white dwarf increasing its mass becomes unstable
and collapses into
neutron star with
burst of energy
Neutron stars
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antiparticle
annihilate.
On event horizon,
one particle falls
into black hole, while
the other escapes.
Event horizon
of black hole Net emission of
Hawking radiation
Proton decay
Another way for something to have existed before the Big Bang
is if the Universe is cyclical. This would only happen if dark energy
diminishes and there is sufficient matter for gravity to pull the
Universe back to a 'Big Crunch'. During such an event, all the
matter and energy in the Universe would be condensed down to
a singu larity of incredibly high temperature and density, in which
the force of quantum gravity would once again re ign supreme
and perhaps begin the chain of events all over again. However,
measurements of the mass density of the Universe so far seem
to suggest that it is not above the required 'critica l density', so
we may be doomed to the co ld fate of an expanding cosmos.
Electricity Magnetism
Electronuclear force/
Grand Unif1ed Theory (GUT)
Quantum gravity
Theory of Everything
Quantum f1eld theory
Reflection Rotation
Translation Glide-reflection
Quantum
electrodynamics
uantum electrodynamics (OED) is the f1eld theory
Q describing how the electroma gneti c force interacts wit h
matter. A co mmon situation involves t wo electrons col lidi ng
and being r epel led and scattered by their like charge s. The
force between them is a quantized electromagnetic f 1eld,
carried by photons. To expla in the theory visua lly, US physicist
Richard Feynman developed Feynman diagrams (see page 202),
esse ntially a pictorial dep icti on of the equati on governing the
inter actio n. Eit her sid e of the interactio n in a diagram should
balance in te rms of mass/energy, charge, momentum and any
other conserved properties.
Spin networks
are a type of
diagram used to
model interactions
between particles
and fields, and used
by Smolin and others
in the development
of LQG.
String theory
A t the end of the Planck epoch, 10-43 seconds after the Big
M. Bang, the four elements of the primord ial superforce began
to separate, no longer acting as one. The forces sp lit apart, one
at a t ime, as temperatures dropped. Each separation marked a
'phase change' in the laws of physics, analogous to the changes we
see when steam condenses into water and then freezes into ice.
Those famil iar changes involve a pause in the drop in temperature
as reconf1guration of bonds re leases energy, and someth ing similar
happened in these more fundamenta l transitions. The period of
phase changes is known as symmetry breaking [the symmetry be ing
the way the unif1ed forces in it ially displayed identica l strength)
The f wst force to break off was gravity, and energy re leased in the
phase change created the quantum foam of spacetime. At 10-36
seconds, the strong force separated, re leasing a burst of energy
that may have driven cosmic inflation Fina lly, electromagnetism
and the weak force sp li t at between 10-12 and 10-6 seconds as the
Universe coo led past 10 quadril lion ° C.
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correspondence
W e live in a Un iverse dominated by dark energy, a mysterious
force accelerating cosmic expansion. A popu lar explanation is
that dark energy is the cosmological constant, a hypothetical energy
f 1eld that fwst cropped up in solutions to Einstein's f1e ld equations
of spacetime. A Universe dominated by a positive cosmological
constant is called a 'de Sitter space', after Dutch scientist Willem de
Sitter. Anti de Sitter (AdS) space, in contrast, wou ld have a negative
cosmological constant causing expansion to decelerate.
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Types of multiverse
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Tegmark's 4 levels of
multiverse
1. The extension of normal spacetime beyond
the limits of our observable Universe
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The uncollapsible
wave function
n the early days of quantum phys ics, many sc ientists were unhappy
I with the Copenhagen interpretation, sin ce certain read ings of it
implied that vast expanses of the cosmos cou ld exist in probabilistic
limbo until observed. Among them was Hugh Everett Il l, whose many-
worlds interpretation suggests that wave functions don't really
col lapse when observed, they JUst present an illusion of co ll apse
Everett pointed out that it's not only the object being observed
that is in a state of quantum flux; so, too, is the observer. If an
electron has a possibility of existing at one of severa l points,
then the observer also has a wave function describing the
possibility of their observing the electron in each location. The
electron and the observer's quantum states are 'entangled',
with the outcome of one re lated to the outcome of the other.
Each possible outcome for the observer is superposed over
the other, and in each outcome the observer sees their version
of the wave function collapse. In general, the wave function is
uncollapsible, but we can experience only one of its outcomes.
292 MULTIVERSES
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A ccording to the many-worlds interpretation (see page 286),
M. every possible outcome of every wave function occurs
somewhere - but where does this all take place? The answer, it
seems, lies in the existence of parallel worlds, class ifi ed by Max
Tegmark as the Level 3 multiverse.
294 MULTIVERSES
Quantum suicide
Ord inari ly, the experime nter might be lucky and survive the fwst
f ew times, but within a few seco nd s they will be shot and kill ed.
However, in the many-worlds interpretation, t he experimenter
survives every ti me; the wave funct ion never co llapses fro m
their po int of view, so they always perc eive a un ive r se in wh ich
they su r vive. Only an outside observe r will see the wave function
col lapse and the expe ri menter die, while the experim enter lives on
in a parallel reality
296 MULTIVERSES
A testable theory?
298 MULTIVERSES
Cyclical universes
300 MULTIVERSES
The anthropic principle
Cosmo log ists explain this f1ne-tuning with an idea called the
anthropic principle. The 'weak' form of the principle argues that
we should expect to measure va lues li ke these, since we cou ld not
exist in a Universe that is not su itable for life. The 'strong' form,
in contrast, looks fo r a rea son behind the f1ne - tuning: perhaps
it is a consequence of the theory of everything, or perhaps our
Universe is indeed one among an infinitely varied multiverse, not
all of which have give n rise to life.
302 MULTIVERSES
Playing dice
hen Albert Einstein declared that 'God doesn't play dice with
W the world', he was bemoan1ng the apparent randomness
of the Copenhagen interpretation's probabilistic wave function.
This has consequences far beyond whether light or electrons are
particles or waves; the Heisenberg uncertainty principle means
that at the quantum level, nature is fundamentally random and
cannot be predicted to any degree of accuracy.
Be ll put the EPR paradox through a str ict mathematica l test, now
known as Bell's theorem. The nature of a particle's quantum spin
means that t he probab ilit y of measuring a given spin depe nds on
the angle from wh ich it is measured, so Bell performed a statistical
analysis, ca lcu lating the odds of measuring a given sp in from a
give n angle. He could f 1nd no evidence f or a relationshi p between
the probabilities and the angles that suggested hidden variab les
existed. Instead, entang lement must be rea l.
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of relativity declares that nothing can travel through the
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about entangled quantum states can travel faster than light
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3 56 QUANTUM BIOLOGY
Biological compasses
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Complex molecules called microtubules
are a crucial component of cells in most
living organisms. Some scientists have
argued that the molecular structure of
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state from 0 to 1 or vice versa, but only if a second control qui bit is in
state '1'. In 2013 researchers succeeded in building such a gate using
a photon and a quantum dot (see page 348).
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3 86 QUANTUM COMPUTING
Building quantum
computers
uantum computing is still in its infancy: the f1rst
Q experimental test of a quantum algorithm took place in
1998 in Oxford, using just two qubits held in an MRI machine.
The same year a three-qubit computer was built and, by 2000,
the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States had
a seven-qub it magnetic resonance quantum computer up and
running. These systems, however, were so basic that they could
only solve the simplest of problems. In 2001, Shor's algorithm
was fwst demonstrated at Stanford University. The quantum
computer that achieved this (calculating that the two prime
factors of 15 are 3 and 5) also had just seven qubits.
3 88 QUANTUM COMPUTING
Future challenges
But not all physicists are ready to discount the role of the
observer. American theoretical physicist John Wheeler argued
that the Universe and the observer are mutually dependent;
one needs the other, and simply making a measurement is not
enough: a conscious mind needs to read that measurement.
n 1974, Ste phen Hawking made his rep utation with the discovery
I that black holes are not qu1t e as inescapab le as they may f ws t
seem. Virt ua l partic les formed on the edge of a black hol e can
producing Hawking rad iation [see page 242), red uc in g the black
hole's mass until it evaporate s comp lete ly. None of this Hawking
radi ation contains information from inside the black hole, however.
Lee Smo lin, the inventor of loop quantum gravity (see page
266), argues that string theory eschews experimenta l
results in favour of elegant mathem atics, describing multiple
dimensions and parallel worlds without cons id ering whether
they can be tested. In 1999, Smolin and backer Mike Lazaridis
helped set up the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
in Canada, where researchers are free to investigate not just
string theory, but alternative theories of quantum gravity.
10 or 11 dimensions 4 dimensions
(can incorporate more)
But dig a little deepe r into nature, and the question be comes
more important. The differenc e between a litera l wave and a
conceptual wave cou ld be an in finite arr ay of parallel universes
or the key to the secret of quantum gravity The cha llenge for
quantum physic ists over the com ing decades is to decide wh ich of
the se concepts is the correct one Depending on the answer, our
understanding not only of nature, but of our place in the Universe
[or mu ltive r se], could look very differe nt.
408 GLOSSARY
on its wavele ngth, frequency and Gamma radiation
energy, and trave ls in discrete energy A form of high-energy
packets called photons that display electromagnetic radiation released
both wave and particle properties by va ri ous processes such as
rad ioactive decay
Electron
A low- mass elementary particle Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
carrying negative electrical charge A re lationship stating the
Electrons are found in the orbita l impossibility of measuring two
shel ls surround ing an atomic nucleus 'complementary' quantum properties
[for example, a particle's position and
Fermion momentum) wi th perfect accuracy at
Any parti cle wi t h a half-integer spin, the same time
in clud ing all the eleme ntary matter
particles [known as quarks and Imaginary numbers
leptons J Ferm ions are governed by A system of numbers based on the
Pauli's exc lusion principle square root of -1, denoted i. Although
i does not exist as a 'rea l' number, it
Fundamental force is often requ ired to solve comp lex
One of four forces governing the equations including many of those
way that matter particles interact describing quantum physics
in nat ure. Three of the fundamenta l
force s, electromagnetism and Lepton
the weak and strong forces, are Any member of a fami ly of elementary
described by quantum physics, but particles that are not susceptible to
the fourth , gravitation, is current ly the strong nuclear force, including
only described by general relativity. electrons and neutrinos
GLOSSARY 409
Magnetic moment Planck's constant
A property determining the strength A physica l constant that helps defme
of the magnetic f1e ld created by an quantum-scale re la ti ons such as that
object, and its susceptibility to the between the frequency of a photon
influence of other magnetic f 1elds. and the energy it co ntains
Neutron Proton
An electrically neutral subatomic A heavy subatomic particle with
partic le made up of two down quarks posit ive electric charge, found in t he
and an up quark, found in the nuclei atomic nucleus and composed of t wo
of atoms. up quarks and a down quark
Photon Quark
A discrete packet of electromagnetic An elementary particle found in six
energy that can display wavel ike, as different 'flavours', responsible for
well as particl elike, behaviour most of the mass in matter
410 GLOSSARY
Spectral lines a qua ntum system producing a
Lines in a spec t rum of light with parti cular r es ult
specif ic wave lengths, caused by the
em ission or absorption of light as Vector
electro ns move between orbi tal A mathematical object with both a
shel ls and energy leve ls within atoms magnitude and a specified directi on
Many quantum properties are
Spin described in vect or terms.
A pr ope r ty of subatomic particles,
Virtual particle
analogous t o ang ular momentum in
A parti cl e t hat spon t aneously comes
lar ger objec t s, which affect s many
into existence an d exists for an
aspects of the ir behaviour
extremely short time as a res ult of
Heise nber g's unce rtaint y principle as
Wave function
it app lies t o t ime and energy. Virtual
A descri ption of th e quantum state particles are produced as particle-
of a system, ofte n denoted by an t iparti cle pairs, and act as gauge
the Greek letter '4 (ps i) The wave bosons t ra nsmitting the fu ndamental
fu nction describes t he probabil ity force s of nature.
of a meas urement performed on
Scientific notation:
This book inevitably deals wit h some very large and very small numbers. To
simplify their presentation, sc ientifi c not ation is used where approp r iate,
with number s presented in the form ax lOb (that is, a times 10 to t he
powe r of b) Hence 3 x 10 6 = 3,000,000 (3 followe d by six zeroes] In this
system, negative va lues of b indicate multiplication by 1/lOb, so f or
example 3 x 10-6 = 3 x 0.000001 = 0.000003
GLOSSARY 411
Index
AdS/CFT correspondence Boltzmann bra ins 324 146, 156, 178, 180, 286,
282, 398 Born, Max 188, 150 292, 304, 306, 394, 406
aether 10, 16 Born rule 150 corpuscular theory 12, 14
algorithms, quantum Bose-Einstein correspondence principle
382, 388 condensates 112, 114, 206, 208
alpha decay 128, 130, 168 350 cosm1c microwave
anthropic princ iple 302 bosons 112, 114, 120, 126, background radiation
antimatter 164, 166 136, 274, 350 (CMBR) 218, 396
app li cations, quantum brain 364, 366 cosmolog ical constant
326-68 brane theory 280, 300 232, 282
atomic clocks 340 Coulomb barrier 130, 168,
atomic structure 42, 44, Calabi-Yau space 278 170
46, 58 - 60 carbon dating 346 cryptography, quantum
Casimir effect 136 342, 344
baryons 110, 124 cathode rays 30 cyclical universes 300
Bell's theorem 308 chemistry, quantum 354
beta decay 126, 128, 132 chirality 104, 126 dark energy 230, 232, 248,
Big Bang 214, 216, 224, 230, clocks, quantum 340 282
250 , 280, 300, complementarity 182 dark matter 98
396, 402 Compton scattering 36 de Brog lie wavelength 38,
'B ig Crunch' 248, 250, 300 computing, quantum 40 , 46
biological compasses 358 370-88 decoherence, quantum
biology, quantum 356 conformal field theories 176, 376, 378, 384
black body radiation 24, 26, [CFTs) 282 degeneracy, quantum 72,
28, 34 consciousness, quantum 236, 238
black holes 240, 242, 398 364, 366 determinism 312, 368
Bohr, Niels 44, 54, 178, 182, Copenhagen dice, playing 304
206, 406 interpretation 54, 144, Dirac equation 164
412 INDEX
Dirac, Paul 164, 194, 200 entropy 22, 320, 324 ground-state electrons
Doppler effect 228 EPR paradox 306, 308 68, 74
dots, quantum 348, 378 error correction, quantum Guth, Alan 224, 226
double - slit experiment 12, 384
14, 154, 200, 208, 322 Everett, Hugh 286, 292 hadrons 94, 116
expanding Universe 214, Hamiltonian operator 196,
E=mc 2 equation 50, 228 , 230 , 234 198, 204, 210
160, 216 extreme matter 402 harmonic osci ll ators,
eigenfunctions 198, 204 eyes 362 quantum 158, 210
Einstein, Albert 28, 32, 34, Hawking radiation 242,
48, 50 , 52 , 114, 146, 160, Faraday, Michael 398
304, 306 , 310, 314 18, 106 Heisenberg, Werner 46, 52,
electric charge 100 fermions 110, 274 172, 188
electromagnetic force Feynman diagrams Heisenberg's uncertainty
18, 20, 122, 254, 258 , 202, 258 principle 52, 140, 172, 174,
264, 272 Feynman, Richard 200 182, 242, 254, 262, 304,
electron tunnelling flash drives 336 312, 320, 324, 400
microscope 330 Fraunhofer lines 78 hidden variables 308
electronics 334 free will 368 Higgs boson 88, 118, 120
electron(s) 30, 34, 44, 46, future of quantum phys ics higher dimensions 276
58 , 60 - 80 , 100, 104, 106, 390-406 Hilbert space 192, 194
108, 174 horizon problem 222, 224
diffraction 40 galaxies, ori gins of 220 Hubble, Edwin 228
energy levels 64-6 gamma decay 134 Hund's rules 74, 76
excited 68, 74, 134 general re lativity 48, 206 , Huygens, Christiaan 10, 16
forbidden transitions 83 240 , 252, 262
shel ls 60, 62, 68, 70 , 76 gluons 94, 112, 136 inflation 224, 226, 246, 250,
subshells 62, 70 grand unified theory (GUT) 290, 300, 400
electroweak theory 264 244, 270 inflationary multiverse 290
emission lines 80 graviton 262
energy, conservation of 82 gravity, quantum 240, Klein-Gordon equation
entanglement, quantum 248, 250, 252, 262, 162, 164
306, 308, 310 , 312, 314, 266, 272
316, 320, 376 Lamb shift 138
INDEX 413
Large Hadron Collider Michelson-Morley Penrose, Roger 364
(LHC) 116, 118, 166, experiment 16 perturbation theory 210
284, 386 momentum, conservation photoelectric effect
lasers 328, 344 of 82 32, 34
leptons 96, 110 Mozi satellite 344 photons 32, 34, 36, 122,
light emitting diodes mu ltiverses 286 - 302 136, 138, 174, 258, 362,
(LEOs) 338 400
light, speed of 314, 400 neutrinos 96, 98, 100 photosynthesis, quantum
limits of the quantum neutron stars 234, 236, 360
realm 208 238, 386, 402 Planck epoch 270 , 272, 274
logic gates, quantum 380, neutrons 42, 58, 100, Planck, Max 24, 26, 28,
382, 384 126, 132 32, 34
loop quantum gravity Newton, Isaac 10, 12 Planck relation 44
(LOG) 266, 284, 404 nucleus, atomic 58, 60 Planck constant 28, 38, 66
positrons 100, 166
magnetic moment 102, objective co ll apse theory probabilities, quantum
106, 108 394 148, 150
magn etic resonan ce observable Universe 288 probability wave function
imaging (MRI) 174, 332 observer's role 392 144
many-worlds operators, quantum 196, protons 42, 58, 100, 132,
interpretation 54, 144, 198, 204 332
286, 292, 294, 296, decay of 244
298, 394 parity 104
mass-energy equivalence particle angu lar quanta 28
48, 50 momentum 102 quantum chromodynamics
mathematics, quantum particle physics 88 - 140 (OCD) 94, 260
184 - 210 particle theory 12, 14, quantum electrodynamics
matrix/matrix mechanics 36, 38 (OED) 258
186, 188, 190, 194 path integral formulation quantum field theory (OFT)
Maxwell, James Clerk 18 200 254, 402
Maxwell's equations 20 Pau li's exclusion princip le quantum fluctuations 216
memory stick 336 76, 94, 110, 236, 238, quantum mechanical
mesons 112, 124 260 , 348 atom 46
quantum number s 62, 152
414 INDEX
quantum states 152, 156 Standard Model 88, 90 tunnelling, quantum
quantum suicide 294, 296 Stark effect 210 130, 148, 168, 170, 174,
quark stars 238 stars 24, 234-8 330, 356
quarks 58, 90, 92 , 94, 110, death of 234 ultraviolet catastrophe
124, 132, 260 string theory 192, 268 , 26, 32
qubits 370, 372, 376, 274, 276 , 278, 284, uncollapsible wave
378, 384 290, 404 function 286, 292, 296,
quintessence 232 strong force 124, 260, 392, 394
272 Un ive rse 212 - 50, 396
radioactivity 128, 130, 132, superconductivity 352 fates of the 248
134, 346 superfluids 350
radiometric dating 346 supernovae 230, 234 vacuum decay 246
relativity 48 , 160, 162, 206, superpositions, quantum vacuum energy 140, 232
214, 240, 252, 262, 314 154, 176, 178 virtual particles 136, 140,
Rutherford, Ernest 42, 44 superstrings 106, 278 174, 214, 216, 242, 254,
Rydberg constant 66 supersymmetry 118, 274, 398, 400
276, 284 vision, quantum 362
Schrodinger's cat 178, 180, symmetry 256
294, 296 symmetry breaking 272 wave function 142 - 82,
Schrod inger's wave 190, 200, 204, 286, 292,
equation 70, 156, 162, Tegmark, Max 288, 290 392, 394, 406
188, 190, 194, 198, 204, telecommunications 344 wave-particle duality 38,
210 , 254 teleportation, quantum 40, 42, 46, 142, 188, 208
simulations, quantum 386 316 - 18 wave theory 10, 12, 14, 16,
Solvay Conference 'theory of everyth ing' 192, 18, 20, 38
(1927) 52 252-84, 404 weak force 126, 264, 272
special relativity 48, 160, thermodynamics 22, 82
162, 314 Thomson, J.J. 30, 42 Young, Thomas 14, 16, 146
spectroscopy 44, 56 time, quantum 320-4
spin, quantum 62, 86, 102, time runn ing backwards Zeeman effect 62, 86
104, 106, 110, 332 322
spin-orbit interactions transformation theory 194
108
INDEX 415
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