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ISBN: 1-62705-601-7 , 0-7503-2764-2

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Content: One of the major scientific thrusts in recent years has been to try to harness quantum phenomena to increase dramatically the performance of a wide variety of classical information processing devices. In particular, it is generally accepted that quantum computers and communication systems promise to revolutionize our information infrastructure.

Note: "Version: 20140401"--Title page verso. , Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Biography -- Introduction -- Quantum information -- Quantum communications -- Quantum computing -- Quantum sensors -- Relativistic quantum information -- Summary , Special and general relativity -- Special relativity -- Lorentz transformations -- Lagrangian dynamics -- The principle of equivalence -- The principle of general covariance -- The Hamilton-Jacobi equations -- Einstein's field equations -- Principles of conservation -- Killing vectors -- Tetrad fields -- Spin in general relativity -- The spin-curvature coupling -- Summary , Relativistic quantum fields -- The Schrödinger equation -- The Klein-Gordon equation -- Scalar quantum fields -- The quantum Poincare transformations -- Wigner rotations -- The Dirac equation -- Dirac quantum fields -- Group representations in quantum field theory -- Representations of quantum fields with arbitrary spin -- The quantum vacuum in flat spacetime -- Summary , Quantum information in inertial frames -- Qubit transformations -- Relativistic dynamics -- Steganographic quantum channel -- The teleportation channel -- Spread momentum states -- Summary , Quantum fields in curved spacetimes -- Scalar fields in curved spacetime -- Quantum dynamics in general relativity -- The quantum vacuum in a gravitational field -- The spin-statistics connection -- Quantum vector fields in curved spacetime -- Spinors in curved spacetimes -- Covariant derivative for fields of arbitrary spin -- Spinor dynamics with tetrad fields -- Dirac spinors in curved spacetime -- The spin-curvature coupling -- Summary , Qubits in Schwarzschild spacetime -- Metric tensor -- Structure of Schwarzschild spacetime -- Tetrad fields and connection one-forms -- Geodesics -- Quantum dynamics -- Wigner rotations -- Radiation damping -- Summary , Spin-curvature coupling in Schwarzschild spacetime -- Spinor components -- Constant spinors in spherical coordinates -- The Lemaitre tetrad -- Radial fall -- The co-moving tetrad field -- General motion in the equatorial plane -- Circular orbits -- Non-geodetic motion -- Wigner rotations -- Summary , Qubits in Kerr spacetime -- The metric tensor -- Structure of Kerr spacetime -- Tetrad fields and connection one-forms -- Geodesics -- Quantum dynamics -- Wigner rotations -- Summary , Quantum information processing in curved spacetimes -- Unitary qubit transformations -- Qubit states -- Quantum communications -- Quantum teleportation -- EPR experiments -- Quantum computation -- Gravity-induced entanglement -- Quantum sensing and gravimetry -- Summary , Conclusions -- Classical information in classical gravitational fields -- Quantum information in classical gravitational fields -- Quantum information in quantum gravitational fields -- Summary. , Also available in print. , Mode of access: World Wide Web. , System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. , English

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DOI: 10.1088/978-1-627-05330-3

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ISBN: 9783837623062 , 9783839423066

Series Statement: Edition Museumsakademie Joanneum

Content: Long description: Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights? What images of shock or identification does one generate - and what images would be desirable?

Content: Biographical note: Wolfgang Muchitsch studied History and English in Graz and Oxford. After graduation, he worked as a university lecturer and project leader in Britain, Northern Ireland and Austria. From 1992 to 1995 he worked for the Department for Planning and Organisation Development of the University of Graz. From 1995 onwards he was responsible for art management in the office of the First Deputy Governor of Styria. He has been the scientific manager of the Universalmuseum Joanneum GmbH since January 2003.

Content: Quote: »Ein instruktiver Band.« Christian Demand, Merkur, 68/7 (2014) Reviewed in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 10.10.2013, Christian Hirte Mitteilungen, 46/2 (2013)

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ISBN: 9783837619645 , 9783839419649

Series Statement: Science Studies

Content: Long description: Abundant, salutary, problematic - energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes the social, cultural and political concepts and discourses of energy and their implementation and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations and consumer practice. By examining and connecting production, mediation and consumption aspects from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, the book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined, discussed, staged and used.

Content: Biographical note: Nina Möllers (PhD) is researcher at the Deutsches Museum (Munich) and curator of the Rachel Carson Center. Her research interests include Museum and Environmental Studies, History of Technology and the American South. Karin Zachmann (PhD) is Professor of History of Technology at the Technical University of Munich. She is known for her scholarship on engineering professions and technical education, history of consumption, and gender history.

Content: Quote: »The book is highly relevant for scholars of energy and society, especially for those looking for new ways of analysing relations between energy, culture, politics and technology. All the essays are fresh, new and inspiring for scholars investigating energy and society in Europe as well as in other countries.« Jytte Thorndahl, ICON, 20/1 (2014) »Ein kohärenter Band, dessen Beiträge um das Verhältnis von Energie, Technologie und Gesellschaftsentwicklung kreisen und Rüdiger Graf, H-Soz-u-Kult, 24.09.2012 Reviewed in: ETDE, 7 (2012)

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ISBN: 9783837617245 , 9783839417249

Series Statement: Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften

Content: Long description: What is the current state of discussion in Cultural History? Which European institutions engage exclusively in Cultural History and which topics do they address? And how will Cultural History develop in the future? These and other questions are raised by European scholars in the discussion of Institutions, Themes and Perspectives of Cultural History in this volume. It provides a profound overview of contemporary developments in Scandinavia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Content: Biographical note: Jörg Rogge is Professor of History, Middle Ages, at the University of Mainz, Germany. He is also spokesperson of the Research Unit Historical Cultural Sciences, Mainz. His research interests are methods and theory of cultural historical sciences, and social and cultural history of late medieval Europe.

Content: Quote: »Wer sich [für] Fachgeschichte, Stand der Forschung und der Institutionalisierung des Forschungsfeldes Kulturgeschichte in Europa interessiert, der ist mit diesem Band gut bedient.« Silke Göttsch-Elten, Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 108/II (2012) Reviewed in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Freimaurerforschung, 16/32 (2014), Astrid von Schlachta

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ISBN: 9783837624984 , 9783839424988

Series Statement: Global Studies

Content: Long description: The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions - including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises - deliver valuable insights into how such alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces in relation to and beyond the economic mainstream. In sum, the collection provides vital grounds for both a transition of the economic system towards a more sustainable one, and a reconceptualisation of the economic itself in our scholarly thinking and everyday lives.

Content: Biographical note: Hans-Martin Zademach is Professor of Economic Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Sebastian Hillebrand is Research and Teaching Associate in the Department of Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Content: Quote: »This book is a welcome addition to the alternative economics literature, and would be helpful for students, academics and practitioners. The book clearly illustrates the complexity and various ethical negotiations facing those of us interested in alternative socio-economic practices.« Gradon Diprose, International Journal of Community Currency Research, 18 (2014) »Das Buch zeichnet sich durch eine für Sammelbände ungewöhnliche Kohärenz aus. Es ergänzt Standardwerke aus dem angelsächsischen und französischsprachigen Raum [...] durch seine differenzierten konzeptionellen Perspektiven und sektoralen Beispiele. Es eignet sich daher als hervorragende Einstiegslektüre in ein Themenfeld, das in der Geographie in den nächsten Jahren weiter an Dynamik gewinnen dürfte.« Christian Schulz, Geographische Zeitschrift, 103/2 (2015) »Insgesamt machen die Beiträge [...] zwei strukturelle Merkmale der Debatte über real mögliche Nachhaltigkeit deutlich: Annäherungen bedürfen in diesem Feld immer einer pluridisziplinären Perspektive - von der Geografie über die Politik bis zu den Ingenieurwissenschaften - und benötigen eine grundlegende Debatte darüber, was das gute Leben im 21. Jahrhundert, noch dazu in einem globalen Maßstab, eigentlich sein soll.« Matthias Lemke, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 24.04.2014 Besprochen in: http://www.ku.de (2014)

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ISBN: 9783837625318 , 9783839425312

Series Statement: Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften

Content: Long description: In the cultural and social formations of the past, practices exist for the generation and integration of moments having and giving sense with the objective of strengthening the cultural and social cohesion. Such practices and processes have a constructive character, even if this is not always the intention of the actors themselves. As the production of sense is one of the central fields of action of cultural and political practice, the articles examine with an interdisciplinary perspective how, in different contexts, the construction of sense was organized and implemented as a cultural practice.

Content: Biographical note: Jörg Rogge is Professor of History, Middle Ages, at the University of Mainz, Germany. He is also spokesperson of the Research Unit Historical Cultural Sciences, Mainz. His research interests are methods and theory of cultural historical sciences, and social and cultural history of late medieval Europe.

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ISBN: 9783837623789 , 9783839423783

Series Statement: Lettre

Content: Long description: Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists influenced each others' investigations of the »wounded mind«. This book looks back to these early attempts to understand trauma, reading a selection of Romantic novels in dialogue with Romantic and contemporary psychiatry. It then carries that dialogue forward to postmodern fiction, examining further how empirical approaches can deepen our theorizations of trauma. Within an interdisciplinary framework, this study reveals fresh insights into the poetics, politics, and ethics of trauma fiction.

Content: Biographical note: Christa Schönfelder teaches English literature at the University of Zurich. Her research interests include Romanticism, postmodern fiction, trauma theory, and gender studies.

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ISBN: 9783837624731 , 9783839424735

Series Statement: Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften

Content: Long description: What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the »exoticization of the ghetto« (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories.

Content: Biographical note: Hans-Christian Petersen (Dr.) teaches East European History at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. His research interests are Urban History and Social Space, History of Science and History of Antisemitism.

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ISBN: 9783837615968 , 9783839415962

Series Statement: TanzScripte

Content: Long description: The concept of »worldmaking« is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing 'dance worlds': through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form and dance material. The essays in this volume critically reflect the predominant topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral - an embodiment of the Other in modernity. Moreover, they demonstrate that there is more than just one universal »world of dance«, but rather a multitude of interrelated dance worlds with more emerging every day.

Content: Biographical note: Gabriele Klein is professor of dance and performance studies at Hamburg University. She leads the master's program in performance studies and the research network »Translating and Framing. Practices of Medial Transformations«. She is a member of the Hamburg Cluster of Excellence »Understanding Written Artefacts«. Her research fields are the social and political theory of dance, choreography, and performance, body politics, and transnational popular dance cultures. Sandra Noeth (Dr. phil.) is a Professor at the HZT-Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (Berlin University of the Arts/University of Performing Arts »Ernst Busch«) and curator and dramaturge internationally active in independent and institutional contexts. She specializes in ethical and political perspectives toward body-practice and theory and in dramaturgy in body-based performing arts. As Head of Dramaturgy and Research at Tanzquartier Wien (2009-2014), Sandra Noeth developed a series of research and presentation projects on concepts and practices of responsibility, religion, integrity and protest in relation to the body. As an educator, she has been working with DOCH-Stockholm University of the Arts since 2012 and was Resident Professor in the 2015-16 HWP-program at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut.

Content: Quote: »Die beiden Herausgeberinnen bieten [...] einen umfassenden Einblick in praktische Positionen und theoretische Diskurse der internationalen Tanz- und Performancekunst.« Daniela Pillgrab, [rezens.tfm], 21.06.2012 »Auf wissenschaftlich anspruchsvollem Niveau wird [mit diesem Buch] die Annahme begründet, dass Tanz seine Wirksamkeit nicht in der Repräsentation existierender Strukturen und Systeme entfaltet, sondern gerade durch das Anbieten von Alternativen - von Utopien, entwickelt mit der Hilfe des Körpers und durch die Organisation der Bewegung.« Up to Dance, 2 (2012) Reviewed in: http://danse.revues.org, 17.12.2014, Valeria De Luca

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ISBN: 9783837624427 , 9783839424421

Series Statement: Edition Politik

Content: Long description: Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighborhood from various disciplinary perspectives. Special attention is paid to the history and contemporary dynamics at Polish and German borders. Of particular interest are the creation of Euroregions, mutual perceptions of Poles and Germans at the border, EU Regional Policy, media debates on the extension of the Schengen area. Analysis of cross-border mobility between Abkhazia and Georgia or the impact of Israel's »Security Fence« to Palestine on society complement the focus on Europe with a wider view.

Content: Biographical note: Arnaud Lechevalier (Dr. habil.) teaches economics and political science at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and is visiting professor at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). His research interests include social policy and European integration. Jan Wielgohs (Dr.) was coordinator of the Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). He worked on post-communist societies and Social Europe.

Content: Quote: »Insgesamt bietet der Sammelband einen gelungenen Überblick zum Thema 'Grenzen/Grenzregionen'. Grenzregionen-Forschern kann man ihn nur empfehlen.« Katarzyna Stoklosa, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 63/3 (2014) Reviewed in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 12.09.2013, Martin Munke

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