Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)

This edited, multi-author volume contains selected, peer-reviewed contributions based on the presentations given at the 21th International Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology (QSCP-XXI), held in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2016.

This book offers an introduction into quantum machine learning research, covering approaches that range from "e;near-term"e; to fault-tolerant quantum machine learning algorithms, and from theoretical to practical techniques that help us understand how quantum computers can learn from data.

Absolute concepts of time and energy are integral to standard thermal physics, but background independent systems are devoid of them.

This book presents the latest results of quantum properties of light in the nanostructured environment supporting surface plasmons, including waveguide quantum electrodynamics, quantum emitters, strong-coupling phenomena and lasing in plasmonic structures.

What is God?

This textbook presents various methods to deal with quantum many-body systems, mainly addressing interacting electrons.

This book gives a complete spectral analysis of the non-self-adjoint Schrodinger operator with a periodic complex-valued potential.

This book gives an introduction to quantum mechanics with the matrix method.

This book reviews the most significant developments in quantum methodology applied to a broad variety of problems in chemistry, physics, and biology.

This book provides an advanced understanding of cyber threats as well as the risks companies are facing.

This book provides a thorough and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of quantum physics.

This thesis presents results crucial to the emerging field of indirect excitons.

This thesis develops new techniques for simulating the low-energy behaviour of quantum spin systems in one and two dimensions.

This thesis demonstrates the potential of two platforms to explore experimentally the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics that has remained mostly theoretical so far.

This book presents photoelectron spectroscopy as a valuable method for studying the electronic structures of various solid materials in the bulk state, on surfaces, and at buried interfaces.

Graduate students who wish to become familiar with advanced computational strategies in classical and quantum dynamics will find in this book both the fundamentals of a standard course and a detailed treatment of the time-dependent oscillator, Chern-Simons mechanics, the Maslov anomaly and the Berry phase, to name just a few topics.

This book focuses on the Symmetric Informationally Complete quantum measurements (SICs) in dimensions 2 and 3, along with one set of SICs in dimension 8.

This book explains the evolution of techniques and strategies in quantum computing, discussing the digital transition towards the quantum computing application in various sectors.

This book discusses key conceptual aspects and explores the connection between triangulated manifolds and quantum physics, using a set of case studies ranging from moduli space theory to quantum computing to provide an accessible introduction to this topic.

This book provides the first comprehensive description of time crystals which have a repeating structure in time.

This book presents and details the process of quantization of a classical mechanical system in a relevant physical system, the harmonic oscillator.

This book deals with an original contribution to the hypothetical missing link unifying the two fundamental branches of physics born in the twentieth century, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.

This textbook on Feynman integrals starts from the basics, requiring only knowledge of special relativity and undergraduate mathematics.

This book explores music with respect to quantum computing, a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly.

This book provides an introduction to deformation quantization and its relation to quantum field theory, with a focus on the constructions of Kontsevich and Cattaneo & Felder.

This book provides a self-contained undergraduate course on quantum computing based on classroom-tested lecture notes.

This book describes the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism of quantum mechanics, which allowscomputation of eigenvalues of quantum mechanical potential problems without solving for thewave function.

This thesis sheds new light on the fascinating properties of composite quantum systems.

This book gives its readers a unique opportunity to get acquainted with new aspects of the fruitful interactions between Analysis, Geometry, Quantum Mechanics and Number Theory.

Based on Jost function theory this book presents an approach useful for different types of quantum mechanical problems.

This book offers an account of a number of aspects of operator theory, mainly developed since the 1980s, whose problems have their roots in quantum theory.

This book offers a fresh perspective on some of the central experimental and theoretical works that laid the foundations for today's quantum mechanics: It traces the theoretical and mathematical development of the hypotheses that put forward to explain puzzling experimental results; it also examines their interconnections and how they together evolved into modern quantum theory.

In this essay collection, leading physicists, philosophers, and historians attempt to fill the empty theoretical ground in the foundations of information and address the related question of the limits to our knowledge of the world.

This undergraduate textbook discusses the nature of the microscopic universe from a modern perspective, based on Einstein's notions of relativity and Noether's proof of the emergence of conservation laws from symmetries of the equations of motion.

This book examines the post-9/11 God debate in the West.

Composed of contributions from leading experts in quantum foundations, this volume presents viewpoints on a number of complex problems through informational, probabilistic, and mathematical perspectives and features novel mathematical models of quantum and subquantum phenomena.

Permeated by the author's delightful humor, this little book explains, with nearly no mathematics, the main conceptual issues associated with quantum mechanics:  The issue of determinism.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Quantum Interaction, QI 2016, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in July 2016.

Dirac cones are ubiquitous to non-trivial quantum matter and are expected to boost and reshape the field of modern electronics.

The letters transcribed in this book were written by physicist David Bohm to three close female acquaintances in the period 1950 to 1956.

This book covers basic and advanced aspects in the field of Topological Matter.

This graduate-level textbook presents the principles, design methods, simulation, and materials of photonic circuits.

This thesis describes experimental work in the field of trapped-ion quantum computation.

This wide-ranging book introduces information as a key concept not only in physics, from quantum mechanics to thermodynamics, but also in the neighboring sciences and in the humanities.

This is the second edition of a well-received book.

Thermal processes are ubiquitous and an understanding of thermal phenomena is essential for a complete description of the physics of nanoparticles, both for the purpose of modeling the dynamics of the particles and for the correct interpretation of experimental data.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, many experimental and theoretical works have been devoted to collisions between highly charged ions and atomic and molecular targets.

This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history.

This text systematically presents the basics of quantum mechanics, emphasizing the role of Lie groups, Lie algebras, and their unitary representations.

This self-contained essay collection is published to commemorate half a century of Bell's theorem.