3 papers
physics.hist-ph2025
From Faraday and Maxwell to Quantum Physics. The later story of the Electromagnetic Vector Potential
Tuck Choy, Miguel Ortuno
With the advent of quantum mechanics by Heisenberg in 1925 exactly a century ago, the quantization of the electromagnetic field became an important goal for our founding fathers, w…
physics.hist-ph2024
Commentary on Peierls's "In defence of measurement" in Physics World, January 1991
Tuck C Choy
This paper is a commentary on Rudolph Peierls's "In defence of measurement" Physics World 19-20, January 1991 to accompany the reprint of this paper for the special volume dedicate…
quant-ph2023
A centennial reappraisal of Heisenberg's Quantum Mechanics with a perspective on Einstein's Quantum Riddle
Tuck C. Choy
Heisenberg's breakthrough in his July 1925 paper that set in motion the development of Quantum Mechanics through subsequent papers by Born, Jordan, Heisenberg and also Dirac (from…