"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Elements of quantum theory -- 2.1. Reminders of linear algebra -- 2.2. Postulates of quantum theory3. Fundamentals of quantum walks -- 3.1. Quantum walks -- 3.2. Higher-dimensional spaces4. Continuous limits and plasticity in one dimension -- 4.1. Plastic quantum walk -- 4.2. Convergence -- 4.3. Disc…
"Version: 20240801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Classical nature of light -- 2.1. Electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Polarization -- 2.3. Preparatory experimental explorations -- 2.4. C1 : Investigating polarization of light through Jones calculus -- 2.5. C2 : Fourier analysis and peanut plots -- 2.6. C3 : Interference and erasure of which-way informat…
"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Let there be light! -- Introduction -- History -- What are force fields? -- Electric and magnetic fields -- Maxwell's equationsQuanta and photons, oh my! -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Black-body radiation -- The photoe…
"Version: 20231001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Classical mechanics and electromagnetism -- 1.1. Newtonian mechanics -- 1.2. Light and electromagnetism -- 1.3. Newtonian point particle solutions2. The origins of quantum mechanics -- 2.1. Blackbody radiation and Planck's constant -- 2.2. Light and photons -- 2.3. Electron diffraction and the de Broglie wavelength -- …
"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fundamentals of the diatomic molecule. 1. Primer on diatomic spectroscopy -- 2. Formal quantum mechanics of diatomic molecular spectroscopy -- 3. Line strength computations -- 4. Framework of the Wigner-Witmer eigenfunction -- 5. Derivation of the Wigner-Witmer eigenfunction -- 6. Diatomic formula inferred from th…
"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical aspects -- 2.1. The Jaynes-Cummings model -- 2.2. Jaynes-Cummings dynamics -- 2.3. Driven and open Jaynes-Cummings physics -- 2.4. Beyond the rotating-wave approximation : the quantum Rabi model -- 2.5. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models -- 2.6. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models turned into si…
"Version: 20150301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biographies -- Introduction -- Newton relativity and one-particle Galilean quantum theory -- Unitary representations of the Galilei group -- Complete systems of commuting observables -- Non-inertial transformations, fictit…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Vortices in Flatland. 1. Vortices -- 1.1. Space-time symmetries -- 1.2. Quantum liquids -- 1.3. Vorticity in classical fluids -- 1.4. Vorticity in quantum liquids2. Quasiparticle picture -- 2.1. Emergence of quasiparticles -- 2.2. B…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The principles of modern thermodynamics -- 1.1. A phenomenological theory of heat and work -- 1.2. The advent of Stochastic Thermodynamics -- 1.3. Foundations of statistical physics from quantum entanglement -- 1.4. Work, heat, and entro…
"Version: 20160801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Summary -- Preface -- Prologue -- Prelude -- part I. The butterfly fractal -- 0. Kiss precise -- 0.1. Apollonian gaskets and integer wonderlands -- Appendix. An Apollonian sand painting--the world's largest artwork1. The fractal family -- 1…