Data analysis meets quantum physics

Quantum physics meets biology.

Quantum physics and biology have long been regarded as unrelated disciplines, describing nature at the inanimate microlevel on the one hand and living species on the other hand. Over the past decades the life sciences have succeeded in providing ever more and refined explanations of macroscopic phenomena that were based on an improved understanding of molecular structures and mechanisms. Simult...

Big Data Meets Medical Physics Dosimetry

Medical physicists face a trade-off when planning oncology radiotherapy treatments. The dosimetrist must deliver sufficient dose to kill the diseased tissue while managing the risk of a variety of possible toxicities that may arise from damage to normal tissue. In attempting to address this trade-off, many questions naturally arise. Are there critical sections within organs that should be spare...

Nanospintronics meets relativistic quantum physics: Ubiquity of Zitterbewegung effects

We present a unified description of zitterbewegung-like phenomena for electron and hole systems showing Rashba spin splitting as well as for electrons in single-layer and bilayer graphene. The former class of systems can be interpreted as “nonrelativistic” whereas the latter are often called “ultrarelativistic” so that our unified description indicates an interesting connection between these tw...

Quantum Physics: A Case for Anti-Realism?

quantum physics: a case for anti-realism?

the aim of the present paper is to sbo» that anti-realism in science, 1vhich has a1;guab/y become more fashionable in recentyears, contrary to tuha: its proponents assert, cannot make use of quantum mechanics and its impressiue achievements as a frump card in justifying its claims. i will argue that scientific anti-realism far from providing scientific communiry with a progressive methodologica...