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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Quantum holography: magnetic resonance tomography and gravitational wavelets

Ernst Binz, Walter Schempp

Published Oct 3, 2000• 1 citation
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Abstract

Quantum holography is a well established theory of mathematical physics based on harmonic analysis on the Heisenberg Lie group G. The geometric quantization is performed by projectivization of the complexified coadjoint orbit picture of the unitary dual G of G in order to achieve a geometric adjustment to special relativity theory. It admits applications to various imaging modalities such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and most importantly for the field of non-invasive medical diagnosis, to the clinical imaging modality of magnetic resonance tomography (MRI). Quantum holography explains the quantum teleportation phenomenon through Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) channels which is a consequence of the non-locality of quantum physics. It specifically reveals what was before unobservable in special relativity, namely the light in flight (LIF) recording processing by ultra fast laser pulse trains. Finally, it provides a Lie group theoretical approach to the Kruskal coordinatized Schwarzschild manifold of quantum cosmology with large scale applications to general relativity theory such as gravitational instanton symmetries and the theory of black holes. The direct spinorial detection of gravitational wavelets emitted by the binary radio pulsar PSR 1913+16 will also be based on the principles of quantum holography.

DOI
10.1117/12.402474

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Quantum holography is a well established theory of mathematical physics based on harmonic analysis on the Heisenberg Lie group G. The geometric quantization is performed by projectivization of the complexified coadjoint orbit picture of the unitary dual G of G in order to achieve a geometric adjustment to special relativity theory. It admits applications to various imaging modalities such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and most importantly for the field of non-invasive medical diagnosis, to the clinical imaging modality of magnetic resonance tomography (MRI). Quantum holography explains the quantum teleportation phenomenon through Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) channels which is a consequence of the non-locality of quantum physics. It specifically reveals what was before unobservable in special relativity, namely the light in flight (LIF) recording processing by ultra fast laser pulse trains. Finally, it provides a Lie group theoretical approach to the Kruskal coordinatized Schwarzschild manifold of quantum cosmology with large scale applications to general relativity theory such as gravitational instanton symmetries and the theory of black holes. The direct spinorial detection of gravitational wavelets emitted by the binary radio pulsar PSR 1913+16 will also be based on the principles of quantum holography.
Quantum holography is a well established theory of mathematical physics based on harmonic analysis on the Heisenberg Lie group G. The geometric quantization is performed by projectivization of the complexified coadjoint orbit picture of the unitary dual Ĝ of G in order to achieve a geometric adjustment of the quantum scenario to special relativity theory. It admits applications to various imaging modalities such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in the microwave range, and, most importantly for the field of non-invasive medical diagnosis, to the clinical imaging modality of magnetic resonance tomography (MRI) in the radio frequency range. Quantum holography explains the quantum teleportation phenomemon through Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) channels which is a consequence of the non-locality of phase coherent quantum field theory, the concept of absolute simultaneity of special relativity theory which provides the Einstein equivalence of energy and Fitzgerald-Lorentz dilated mass, and the perfect quantum holographic replication process of molecular genetic information processing. It specifically reveals what was before unobservable in quantum optics, namely the interference phenomena of matter wavelets of Bose-Einstein condensates, and what was before unobservable in special relativity, namely the light in flight (LIF) recording processing by ultrafast laser pulse trains. Finally, it provides a Lie group theoretical approach to the Kruskal coordinatized Schwarzschild manifold of relativistic cosmology with large scale applications to general relativity theory such as gravitational instanton symmetries and the theory of black holes. The direct spinorial detection of gravitational wavelets emitted by the binary radio pulsar PSR 1913+16 and known only by anticipatory system computation so far will also be based on the principles of quantum holography applied to very large array (VLA) radio interferometers.
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Coherent wavelets form a unified basis of the multichannel perfect reconstruction analysis-synthesis filter bank of high resolution radar imaging and clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The filter bank construction is performed by the Kepplerian temporospatial phase detection strategy which allows for the stroboscopic and synchronous cross sectional quadrature filtering of phase histories in local frequency encoding multichannels with respect to the rotating coordinate frame of reference. The Kepplerian strategy and the associated filter bank construction take place in symplectic affine planes which are immersed as coadjoint orbits of the Heisenberg two-step nilpotent Lie group GGG into the foliated three-dimensional real projective space $\mbox{ P}\bigl(\mbox{ R}\times\mbox{Lie}(G)^{\star}\bigr)$. Due to the factorization of transvections into affine dilations of opposite ratio, the Heisenberg group GGG under its natural sub-Riemannian metric acts on the line bundle realizing the projective space $\mbox{ P}\bigl(\mbox{ R}\times \mbox{ Lie}(G)^{\star}\bigr)$. Its elliptic non-Euclidean geometry without absolute quadric, associated to the unitary dual G^\hat{G}G^, governs the design of the coils inside the bore of the MRI scanner system. It determines the distributional reproducing kernel of the tracial read-out process of quantum holograms excited and coexisting in the MRI scanner system. Thus the pathway of this paper leads from Keppler's approach to projective geometry to the Heisenberg approach to the sub-Riemannian geometry of quantum physics, and finally to the enormously appealing topic of ensemble quantum computing.
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