"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface : why you should read this book -- 1. Quantum theory -- 1.1. Basic notions -- 1.2. Non-relativistic quantum theory -- 1.3. Exploiting quantum theory embedded in classical gravity -- 1.4. Special relativity -- 1.5. Dirac relativistic spinor theory -- 1.6. von Neumann algebras -- 1.7. A higher level of abstraction :…
"Version: 20240101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Discovery of quantum optics -- 2.1. Optics timeline : from corpuscles and waves to photons -- 2.2. Classical, semi-classical or quantum? -- 2.3. From radio frequency electromagnetic fields controlling quantum systems to quantum optics and back3. What is quantum in quantum optics? -- 3.1. Einstein's i…
"Version: 20200501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Quantum logic. 1. Quantum logic -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Motivations towards quantum computing -- 1.3. The relationship between reversible and quantum logic -- 1.4. Quantum computers -- 1.5. The working principles of quantum computers -- 1.6. The evolution of quantum computers -- 1.7. Why pursue quantum computing?…
"Version: 20200701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Classical nature of light -- 2.1. Electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Polarization -- 2.3. Experimental explorations3. Quantum nature of light -- 3.1. Quantum mechanical states -- 3.2. Qubits -- 3.3. Transforming quantum states -- 3.4. Measuring quantum states -- 3.5. Composite systems and entangled states…
"Version: 20230901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fundamentals of quantum mechanics and scattering theory -- 1.1. Quantum mechanics -- 1.2. Non-relativistic scattering theory2. Modern scattering theory -- 2.1. Elastic scattering from finite size effects -- 2.2. Bound states -- 2.3. Resonances3. Effective field theory of interactions and renormalization -- 3.1. Low-ene…
"Version: 20251001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Short-distance universality -- 1.1. Two-body physics at short distances -- 1.2. A matter of scales : atoms and nuclei -- 1.3. Weak short-range universality -- 1.4. Strong short-range universality : Tan's relations -- 1.5. Tan's relations in one spatial dimension2. Bose-Fermi mapping and strongly interacting one-dimensi…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Multi-scale modeling in semiconductors -- 1.2. Building a planar MOSFET -- 1.3. Modern modifications -- 1.4. What is in this book?2. Electronic structure -- 2.1. Periodic potentials -- 2.2. Potentials and pseudopotentials -- 2.3. Real-space methods -- 2.4. Momentum space methods -- 2.5. The k [dot]…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of thermodynamics -- 1.1. Introduction : statistical physics and thermodynamics -- 1.2. The 2nd law of thermodynamics, entropy, and temperature -- 1.3. The 1st and 3rd laws of thermodynamics, and heat capacity -- 1.4. Thermodynamic potentials -- 1.5. Systems with variable number of particles -- 1.6. Thermal mach…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of thermodynamics -- 2. Principles of physical statistics -- 3. Ideal and not-so-ideal gases -- 4. Phase transitions -- 5. Fluctuations -- 6. Elements of kinetics -- Appendices. A. Selected mathematical formulas -- B. Selected physical constants.Essential Advanced Physics is a series comprising four parts: Class…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What is computational astrophysics? -- 1.1. Computational astrophysics -- 1.2. A brief history of simulations in astrophysics -- 1.3. Software used in this book -- 1.4. Initial conditions2. Gravitational dynamics -- 2.1. In a nutshell -- 2.2. N-body integration strategies -- 2.3. Gravity solvers in AMUSE -- 2.4. Exampl…