Roy Glauber and asymptotic diffraction theory

An interview with Nobel laureate Roy Glauber, Physics 2005.

The field of quantum optics rests on the work of Roy Glauber, who helped elucidate the nature of light as both particles and waves. According to Glauber, quantum optics allowed "all sorts of experiments...that never could have been done before." He suggests that it was not his "small revelation" that the Nobel Committee awarded, but rather the decades of research that followed his own. Nonethel...

Roy Radner and incentive theory

How to provide agents with sufficient motivation to do what society – or its proxy in the guise of a center or social planner – wants them to do is the subject of incentive theory. The theory has normative force whenever, metaphorically speaking, the invisible hand of the market fails to provide such motivation automatically. Market failure can come about either because markets are imperfect in...

Roy Radner and Incentive Theory *

How to provide agents with sufficient motivation to do what society — or its proxy in the guise of a center or social planner — wants them to do is the subject of incentive theory. The theory has normative force whenever, metaphorically speaking, the invisible hand of the market fails to provide such motivation automatically. Market failure can come about either because markets are imperfect in...

A New Glauber Theory based on Multiple Scattering Theory

Glauber theory for nucleus-nucleus scattering at high incident energies is reformulated so as to become applicable also for the scattering at intermediate energies. We test validity of the eikonal and adiabatic approximations used in the formulation, and discuss the relation between the present theory and the conventional Glauber calculations with either the empirical nucleon-nucleon profile fu...

Diffraction Theory