This showed that parity is not conserved in beta disintegration, in accord with the epochal theory of Lee and Yang, which had been developed just a few months before. In her most famous work, she demonstrated that the direction of emission of beta rays is strongly correlated with the direction of the spin of the emitting nucleus. In addition, she has made important contributions to several other fields of fundamental physics, to physics Instrumentation, and recently, to biology. This work extended mostly from 1948 to 1963. Professor Chien-Shiung Wu has done outstanding experimental work on the mechanism of beta disintegration, and thereby, of weak interactions generally. “for her persistent and successful exploration of the weak interaction which helped establish the precise form and the non conservation of parity for this new natural force.” The Wolf Foundation Prize Committee for Physics unanimously chosen as the recipient of the first Wolf Prize in Physics Far beyond that, the introduction of ‘the Berry phase’ has served to unify geometrical and topological aspects in diverse areas of science, including field and string theory, gravitational physics, mechanics, and physical chemistry.Īlthough the geometrical and topological phase effects remain intuitively difficult and abstract, they have become essential ingredients in the development of practical applications like micron sized electronic devices and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDS). It is routinely used in condensed matter physics, for example in understanding flux quantization, electron beam holography, and the spontaneous polarization in ferroelectrics. As a generalization of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the Berry phase is now an integral part of modern quantum physics. In 1984, Berry showed that the adiabatic theorem of quantum and classical mechanics was incomplete in that it left out the possibility that a quantum system could also acquire a ‘geometrical phase’ which depended only upon the geometry of the parameter space and the circuit adiabatically traversed. The existence of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, which is based on the non-locality of quantum mechanics, therefore requires an unsettling revision of classical ideas about which there is still much discussion. The interference pattern depends on the flux.
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There is, however, a vector potential in this field free region which produces different phases in the parts of the electron´s wave function passing to the ‘left’ or ‘right’ of the flux tube. The electron can be confined into a region where the magnetic field in a flux tube never penetrates. an electron, which quantum mechanically passes on both sides of a tube containing a magnetic flux. The basic effect of Yakir Aharonov and the late David Bohm, proposed in 1959, considers a charged particle, e.g. A few especially transparent examples of the diversity of their impact include the understanding of coherence and wave function entanglement phenomena in optical and electronic systems the quantum Hall effect, flux quantization and persistent currents in normal and superconducting systems, and the chaotic evolution of a quantum system. These fields include optics, nuclear physics, fluid physics, chemistry, molecular physics, string theory, gravitational physics, cosmology, solid state physics, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and most recently, attempts to develop quantum computing. Berry on topological and geometrical phases has stimulated and motivated a large amount of theoretical and experimental activity in widely different fields of physics over the last thirty years. The work of Professors Yakir Aharonov and Michael V. “for the discovery of quantum topological and geometrical phases, specifically the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the Berry phase, and their incorporation into many fields of physics.” The Prize Committee for Physics has unanimously decided that the Prize for 1998 be jointly awarded to: Yakir Aharonov and Sir Michael V.
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