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Braginsky, Vladimir Borisovich was born on August 3, 1931 in Moscow.
( Electromagnetic and mechanical oscillators are crucial ...)
Electromagnetic and mechanical oscillators are crucial in such diverse fields as electrical engineering, microwave technology, optical technology, and experimental physics. For example, such oscillators are the key elements in instruments for detecting extremely weak mechanical forces and electromagnetic signals are essential to highly stable standards of time and frequency. The central problem in developing such instruments is to construct oscillators that are as perfectly simple harmonic as possible; the largest obstacle is the oscillator's dissipation and the fluctuating forces associated with it. This book, first published in Russian in 1981 and updated with new data for this English edition, is a treatise on the sources of dissipation and other defects in mechanical and electromagnetic oscillators and on practical techniques for minimizing such defects. Written by a team of researchers from Moscow State University who are leading experts in the field, the book is a virtual encyclopedia of theoretical formulas, experimental techniques, and practical lore derived from twenty-five years of experience. Intended for the experimenter who wishes to construct near-perfect instrumentation, the book provides information on everything from the role of phonon-phonon scattering as a fundamental source of dissipation to the effectiveness of a thin film of pork fat in reducing the friction between a support wire and a mechanically oscillating sapphire crystal. The researchers that V. B. Braginsky has led since the mid-1960s are best known in the West for their contributions to the technology of gravitational-wave detection, their experimental search for quarks, their test of the equivalency principle, and their invention of new experimental techniques for high-precision measurement, including "quantum nondemolition movements." Here, for the first time, they provide a thorough overview of the practical knowledge and experimental methods that have earned them a worldwide reputation for ingenuity, talent, and successful technique.
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(This book is an up-to-date introduction to the quantum th...)
This book is an up-to-date introduction to the quantum theory of measurement. Although the main principles of the field were elaborated in the 1930s by Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, von Neuman, and Mandelstam, it was not until the 1980s that technology became sufficiently advanced to allow its application in real experiments. Quantum measurement is now central to many ultra-high technology developments, such as "squeezed light," single atom traps, and searches for gravitational radiation. It is also considered to have great promise for computer science and engineering, particularly for its applications in information processing and transfer. The book begins with a brief introduction to the relevant theory and goes on to discuss all aspects of the design of practical quantum measurement systems.
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department chairman physics professor
Braginsky, Vladimir Borisovich was born on August 3, 1931 in Moscow.
Master of Science in Physics, Moscow State University, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Moscow State University, 1959. Doctor of Science in Physics, Moscow State University, 1967.
Senior worker department physics Moscow State University, 1954-1956, assistant professor, 1956-1964, senior research fellow, 1964-1968, professor, since 1968, chairman department, since 1986. Visiting associate California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, since 1994. Advisor to president M. Planck Society, Germany, since 1995.
( Electromagnetic and mechanical oscillators are crucial ...)
(This book is an up-to-date introduction to the quantum th...)
Member Russian Academy of Sciences (correspondent), Academy Europaea, American Academy Arts & Sciences (honorary foreign). Foreign associate National Academy of Sciences.
Son of Michail Michaiovich Zavialov and Anna Stepanovna (Kot) Braginskaya. Stepfathre Boris Nicolaevich Braginsky. Married Rogneda Enverovna Schikhlinskaya, May 2, 1958.
ChildrenP Olga, Oleg.