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Heisenberg Demonstrator

Purpose of the Software

The Hiesenberg Demonstrator is designed to show the relationship between Quantum systems, measuring devices and observers. The software is freeware and the source code can be downloaded below. The only condition is that the copyright remains with Bowmain Ltd (UK).

The software supports the document at http://www.quantum.bowmain.com/Quantum_Reality.pdf

The Hiesenberg Demonstrator world view is unashamedly "Copenhagen". For example, it can be used to demonstrate solutions to the calibration problem or show "Physics before Physics" or show that commutator relationship can be defined even in the absence of a clock.

Download

The .NET executable and supporting dlls (in a zip file) are available here.

Source code is available here and requires Microsoft Visual C# Express Edition or above to compile. It requires that .NET runtime is installed on the target computer.

Please note that the application is very susceptable to the choice of random number generation algorithm.

Experiments

Experiments consist of a set of systems, associated measuring devices and observers.

Systems

The following systems are "built-in" to Heisenberg

Measuring Devices

Measuring devices are always closely coupled to Quantum systems. The following measuring devices are "built-in" to Heisenberg

Observers

The following observers are "built-in".

Catalogue of Experiments

Experiments consist of a set of systems, associated measuring devices and observers. Experiments can be persisted to disk, and are identified by the extension ".Heisenberg".

The following experiments are supplied with Heisenberg

Spin 1/2 particle

File: Spin 1/2 Particle.Heisenberg

Measurement of the intrinsic angular momentum of single spin 1/2 particle, modelled as a spinor. Angular momentum operators are implemented using standard Pauli matrices.

Classical pendulum

File: Pendulum.Heisenberg

Time varying classical quantity

File: Classical.Heisenberg

X = f(t)

Current Status

The current version is a development version only and a little buggy.

If you find this software useful (or would if it was complete), please let me know. It might make me work on it a little bit more!

Copyright (c) Bowmain Ltd, 2007, 2008. email sokane@bowmain.com