Recent Developments in Theoretical Physics Book

Foreword v

Preface vii

1 Is the End of Theoretical Physics Really in Sight? A. Khare 1

Relativity, Gravitation and Astro-Particle Physics 11

2 Holography, CFT and Black Hole Entropy P. Majumdar 13

3 Hawking Radiation, Effective Actions and Anomalies R. Banerjee 31

4 Probing Dark Matter in Primordial Black Holes A. S. Majumdar 53

5 Physics in the "Once Given" Universe C. S. Unnikrishnan 99

High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics and Quantum Mechanics 121

6 Doubly-Special Relativity G. Amelino-Camelia 123

7 Nuances of Neutrinos A. Raychaudhuri 171

8 Dynamics of Proton Spin A. N. Mitra 189

9 Whither Nuclear Physics? A. Abbas 207

10 Generalized Swanson Model and its Pseudo Supersymmetric Partners A. Sinha P. Roy 221

Condensed Matter Phenomena

11 The Relevance of Berry Phase in Quantum Physics P. Bandyopadhyay 237

12 Quantum Hamiltonian Diagonalization P. Gosselin A. Bérard H. Mohrbach 253

13 The Hall Conductivity of Spinning Anyons B. Basu 267

14 Quantum Annealing and Computation A. Das B. K. Chakrabarti 279

Nonlinear Dynamics 329

15 Liouville Gravity from Einstein Gravity D. Grumiller R. Jackiw 331

16 Exact Static Solutions of a Generalized Discrete ø⁴ A. Khare 345

17 A Model for Flow Reversal in Two-Dimensional Convection K. Kumar S. Paul P. Pal M. K. Verma 365

18 Euclidean Networks and Dimensionality P. Sen 375

Quantum Information 383

19 Equal Superposition Transformations and Quantum Random Walks P. Parashar 385

20 Cloning Entanglement Locally S. K. Choudhary R. Rahaman 405