Antibunching of photons is one of the few phenomena which can only be explained in terms of the quantum theory of light. Rodney Loudon describes this effect, and its more widely known counterpart, photon bunching
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Rodney Loudon 1976 Phys. Bull. 27 21
K J Dean 1984 Phys. Bull. 35 339
Hermann A Haus 1984 Hemel Hempstead: Prentice-Hall xii + 402 pp price £26 ISBN 0 13 946053 5
The author has written a text which provides an excellent introduction to optoelectronics. The main purpose of the book is to present the mathematical models of, and to outline the approaches that are required for, the analysis of optical propagation and interaction.
S Zienau 1975 Phys. Bull. 26 545
L Allen and J H Eberly Chichester: J Wiley 1975 pp xiii + 233 price £10.80 (cased)
Allen and Eberly, who have been most actively engaged in the expanding field of laser physics have written this introduction to optical resonance, pulse propagation and superradiance and allied phenomena relying mainly on quasiclassical methods. The mathematical apparatus and the actual, minimal, amount of quantum electrodynamics put to use, should make this text accessible to every graduate physicist.
F Bryant 1958 Phys. Bull. 9 317
The nature of the close fit between refraction angles calculated according to Kepler's formula (i-r · ki sec r) and those obtained from Snell's law (sin i · · n sin r) has been discussed recently in the Bulletin. It is proposed in this brief note to indicate several points concerning the early history of Snell's sine law and also to mention some generally unappreciated mathematical aspects of the relationship. Many physics text-books preserve the tradition that the sine law was first stated by Willebrord Snell (1591-1626) in 1621.
J Topping 1956 Phys. Bull. 7 281
By Albert Einstein New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Pp. 124. Price $1.25.
This little book contains the complete text of five papers on Brownian Motion written by Einstein during the years 1905–8, and published in the Annalen der Physik and the Zeitschrift für Elektrochcmie. Students of physics, who too seldom these days go back to the original sources, will find it a useful discipline as well as a pleasure to read these papers by one of the greatest mathematical physicists of all time.
D Wishart 1966 Phys. Bull. 17 60
Rufus Isaacs London: John Wiley. 1965. Pp. xxii + 384. Price 113s.
Dr. Isaacs has written a book about two characters, P (for Pursuer) and E (for Evader). P is usually aggressive (as an individual he has homicidal tendencies when driving a car) and, when he has the opportunity, he is a warmonger.
P J Dobson 1985 Phys. Bull. 36 506
J F Nye 1985 Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press xvii + 329 pp price £15 (paperback) ISBN 0 19 851165 5
A review of a well-known and trusted work such as this is difficult. It is 28 years since Professor Nye's book first appeared in hardback form.
D W Goodwin 1969 Phys. Bull. 20 525
G.H. Dieke New York: Inter science. 1969 Pp. xi + 401. Price £6 11s.
The sudden death of Gerhard Dieke at the Aberdeen Summer School on phonons in 1965 robbed the scientific world of a dedicated solid state spectroscopist. Dieke was involved in the Manhattan Project as a spectroscopist studying the uranyl salts and this led him into a detailed study of the absorption and fluorescence spectra of the rare earths which commenced in 1953 and ended with his untimely death.
Herman Haken 1977 Phys. Bull. 28 412
'Synergetics' is a term that many physicists will have come across without perhaps fully understanding its meaning. In this article Professor Haken tells us that synergetics is a new field of interdisciplinary research and describes its achievements
W D Wright 1967 Phys. Bull. 18 353
G. Wyszecki and W. S. Stiles London: John Wiley. 1967. Pp. xiv + 628. Price £11.
This remarkable and unusual book is by two outstanding authorities on the science of colour: Dr. Stiles, for many years a senior member of the Light Division at the National Physical Laboratory, and Dr. Wyszecki, currently in charge of the Radiation Optics Section of the Canadian National Research Council. The authors' aim has been to provide a comprehensive source book of data required by the practical and theoretical worker in the field of colour and they have achieved this aim so successfully that their book is likely to become the standard work on the subject and to remain so for a good many years.
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C R Berridge 1988 Phys. Bull. 39 303
For some time now there have been frequent pronouncements, mainly from the Department of Education and Science, that there is a shortage of physics teachers. The Institute of Physics conducted a survey on the supply of physics teachers between September 1985 and August 1986, and concluded that there had been a drop in the average number of replies per advertisement compared with a previous survey.
Patrick Flynn 1988 Phys. Bull. 39 303
Don Wilkinson (Physics Bulletin April 1988 p1 36) is right to criticise the new IOPP logo which can only indicate that physicists have no sense of design and lack any aesthetic appreciation. Its appearance on the front of Advance Abstracts and on the contents page of Physics Bulletin emphasises that it is totally out of character with the appearance and typography of these publications.
D A Bell 1988 Phys. Bull. 39 303
A distraction at the beginning of the article by R W Munn (Physics Bulletin May 1988 p202) was the association of a 1 nm linear dimension of a component with the figure of 1000 atoms per bit. With atomic diameters and lengths of bonds between atoms all being of the order of a few angstroms (say 0.4 nm) it is difficult to see how 1000 atoms per bit arises.
Louis Cohen 1988 Phys. Bull. 39 304
It was in the spring of 1966 that a serious discussion about a European Physical Society took place, initiated by Professor Gilberto Bernardini at a meeting in the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. After a remarkably short time for this sort of thing, agreement was reached on how the society should operate and the EPS was formally established in September 1968.
G R Bishop 1988 Phys. Bull. 39 304
Scientific research results, and the whole spectrum of high-level competences that a state or collection of states can bring to bear on events, constitute more than ever a decisive ingredient in the vital and active competitive role which each social unit must play to transform society globally. The roots of this evolution lie in the scientific culture of Europe.