TY - BOOK ID - 145899380 TI - Physics of the Lorentz group AU - Bașkal, Sibel AU - Kim, Y. S. AU - Noz, Marilyn E. AU - Morgan & Claypool Publishers AU - Institute of Physics (Great Britain) PY - 2015 SN - 1681740621 0750328010 9781681740621 9780750328012 PB - San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, IOP Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Lorentz groups. KW - Rotation groups. KW - Mathematical physics. KW - SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational. KW - Mathematical Physics. KW - Quantum Physics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145899380 AB - This book explains the Lorentz mathematical group in a language familiar to physicists. While the three-dimensional rotation group is one of the standard mathematical tools in physics, the Lorentz group of the four-dimensional Minkowski space is still very strange to most present-day physicists. It plays an essential role in understanding particles moving at close to light speed and is becoming the essential language for quantum optics, classical optics, and information science. The book is based on papers and books published by the authors on the representations of the Lorentz group based on harmonic oscillators and their applications to high-energy physics and to Wigner functions applicable to quantum optics. It also covers the two-by-two representations of the Lorentz group applicable to ray optics, including cavity, multilayer and lens optics, as well as representations of the Lorentz group applicable to Stokes parameters and the Poincaré sphere on polarization optics. ER -