3 papers
physics.hist-ph2006
On the verge of Umdeutung in Minnesota: Van Vleck and the correspondence principle (Part Two)
Anthony Duncan, Michel Janssen
This is the second installment of a two-part paper on developments in quantum dispersion theory leading up to Heisenberg's "Umdeutung" paper. In telling this story, we have taken a…
physics.hist-ph2006
On the verge of Umdeutung in Minnesota: Van Vleck and the correspondence principle (Part One)
Anthony Duncan, Michel Janssen
In October 1924, the Physical Review, a relatively minor journal at the time, published a remarkable two-part paper by John H. Van Vleck, working in virtual isolation at the Univer…
hep-lat2006
Lattice Field Theory Methods in Modern Biophysics
Anthony Duncan
An effective field theory exists describing a very large class of biophysically interesting Coulomb gas systems: the lowest order (mean-field) version of this theory takes the form…