Quantum Processes, Systems, and Information

✍ Scribed by Benjamin Schumacher; Michael Westmoreland

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 483
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A new and exciting approach to the basics of quantum theory for undergraduate courses.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Bits and quanta; 2 Qubits; 3 States and observables; 4 Distinguishability and information; 5 Quantum dynamics; 6 Entanglement; 7 Information and ebits; 8 Density operators; 9 Open systems; 10 A particle in space; 11 Dynamics of a free particle; 12 Spin and rotation; 13 Ladder systems; 14 Many particles; 15 Stationary states in 1-D; 16 Bound states in 3-D; 17 Perturbation theory; 18 Quantum information processing; 19 Classical and quantum entropy; 20 Error correction; Appendix A Probability; Appendix B Fourier facts. Appendix C Gaussian functionsAppendix D Generalized evolution; Index.
Abstract: A new and exciting approach to the basics of quantum theory for undergraduate courses

✦ Subjects

Физика;Квантовая физика;