"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: 20180901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Essentials -- 1.1. Intuition -- 1.2. Domains -- 1.3. Measurement -- 1.4. The postulates of quantum mechanics2. Majorization -- 2.1. The relation to domain theory -- 2.2. Ensembles -- 2.3. Local operations and classical communication -- 2…
"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: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Classical field theory -- 1.1. Lagrangian formalism for fields -- 1.2. The Klein-Gordon field -- 1.3. The electromagnetic field -- 1.4. Lorentz invariance -- 1.5. Transformation of fields under Lorentz transformations -- 1.6. Noether's t…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Path integral formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The transition probability amplitude -- 1.2. Derivation of the quantum mechanical path integral -- 1.3. Path integral in terms of the Lagrangian -- 1.4. Computing simple path integra…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. QCD phenomenology -- 1.1. Electron-muon scattering -- 1.2. Form factors -- 1.3. Elastic electron-proton scattering and the proton form factors -- 1.4. Inelastic electron-proton scattering -- 1.5. The parton model and Bjorken scaling -- 1…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A brief history of gravitational radiation -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Sources of gravitational radiation -- 1.3. Gravitational waves from general relativity -- 1.4. Background reading2. General theoretical considerations about the cosm…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The continuum Universe -- 1.1. The right use of x[square] : describing a continuum2. Everything is a wave -- 2.1. Waves in what medium : waves made of what stuff? -- 2.2. Evidence for waves -- 2.3. Early clues to the size and nature of a…
"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Important notes about this book -- 2.1. Anglophone focus -- 2.2. Physics, science, STEM -- 2.3. Gender, sex, gender identity, gender presentation -- 2.4. Women, or women versus men? -- 2.5. Intersectionality -- 2.6. Hors d'oeuvres versus the plated meal -- 2.7. Emotions -- 2.8. My biases3. Supporting…
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The discovery of accreting binaries -- 1.2. Celestial laboratories of extreme physics -- 1.3. Structure of this book2. Astrophysical basics for single stars -- 2.1. Concise stellar evolution -- 2.2. Fundamental properties of compact objects -- 2.3. Reviews, catalogs and references3. Astrophysical b…