This memorial quantity in honor of Dr Akira Tonomura is to commemorate his huge, immense contributions to basic physics as well as the fundamental expertise of electron microscopy. Dr Tonomura gave up the ghost on could 2, 2012 on the age of 70. He was once Fellow of Hitachi, Ltd., team Director of unmarried Quantum Dynamics learn workforce of RIKEN, important Investigator of the 1st Tonomura venture, and Professor of Okinawa Institute of technological know-how and know-how Graduate University.

The booklet comprises: 1) contributions from exceptional physicists, who participated within the “Tonomura FIRST overseas Symposium on Electron Microscopy and Gauge Fields” deliberate through Tonomura himself and held in Tokyo on could 9–10, 2012, and a pair of) reprints of key papers through Tonomura and his crew. Invited audio system at this Symposium comprise Chen Ning Yang and different wonderful physicists corresponding to Yakir Aharonov, Gordon Baym, Christian Colliex, Anthony J Leggett, Naoto Nagaosa, Nobuyuki Osakabe and Masahito Ueda. This “memorial” Symposium was once initially deliberate to commemorate the beginning of the Japanese-government-sponsored FIRST Tonomura venture to build the 1.2 MV holography electron microscope able to staring at quantum phenomena within the microscopic global. furthermore, the ebook comprises contributions from individuals of the earlier ISQM-Tokyo symposia held at Hitachi and from Tonomura's longtime pals, together with Michael Berry, Jerome Friedman, Hidetoshi Fukuyama, Joseph Imry, Yoshinori Tokura, Jaw-Shen Tsai, and Anton Zeilinger.

The co-editors are Kazuo Fujikawa, Tonomura's longtime buddy, and Yoshimasa A Ono who's Tonomura's affiliate at Hitachi complex learn Laboratory and now within the FIRST Tonomura Project.