“Air on the Dirac Strings” by Sandin

  • ©Daniel (Dan) J. Sandin

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    08

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    Air on the Dirac Strings

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  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Description:


    A quantum mechanical system involving electrons is not brought back into exact coincidence with itself after it is rotated 360 degrees, while it is brought back into coincidence with itself after it is rotated 720 degrees. How can we visualize such a situation?

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    HARDWARE: Silicon Graphics, AT&T Pixel Machine

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    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: C, GL, Raylib

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    Producer
    Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Contributors
    George Francis, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Louis Kauffman, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC); Daniel Sandin, Electronic Visualization Laboratory and Art Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Computer graphics: Chris Hartman, UIUC
    Mathematics Department, John Hart, Washington State University EECS Department
    Dance: Jan Heyn-Cubacub
    Music: Sumit Das, UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory Wdeo.Dana Plepys, UIC Electronic Visualization
    Laboratory Produced at: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago

    Special Thanks
    Thomas A. DeFanti, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC Larry Smarr, National Center for Supercomputing Applications. UIUC Donna Cox, Renaissance Experimental Laboratory, UIUC; Randy Hudson, Alan Millman, Maggie Rawlings, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, UIC Tony Baylis, Bob Patterson

    National Center for Supercomputing Applications, UIUC
    Copyright: 1993 Sandin, Kauffman, Francis

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