"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 14-15).Quantum computer technology is progressing rapidly with dozens of qubits and hundreds of quantum logic gates now possible. Although current quantum computer technology is distant from being able to solve computational problems beyond the reach of non-quantum computers, experiments have progressed well beyond…
"Version: 20180301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 17).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- Discovery of the concept of antimatter -- CPT symmetry -- Antihydrogen formation processes -- 3. Current directions -- Antihydrogen beam with a cusp trap via three-body recombination -- Preparation of cold antiprotons and cold positrons -- Pulsed antihydrogen beam : the AEgIS …
"Version: 20210201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Goals of the lecture notes -- 1.2. Classical electrodynamics and its symmetries -- 1.3. Field quantization -- 1.4. The need for discreteness in quantum computing -- 1.5. Symmetries and predictive models2. Classical field theory -- 2.1. Classical action, equations of motion and symmetries -- 2.2. Tr…
"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: 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: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Gauge theories -- 1.1. Introduction to quantum electrodynamics -- 1.2. Abelian gauge invariance -- 1.3. Perturbative calculations at tree level in QED -- 1.4. Renormalization of QED -- 1.5. Compact Lie groups -- 1.6. Non-Abelian gauge theories -- 1.7. The Faddeev-Popov ansatz and gauge fixing for non-Abelian gauge theo…
"Version: 20170102"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- part I. Fundamentals -- 1. The classical state -- 2. Origins of quantum mechanics -- 3. The wave-like behavior of electrons -- 4. The quantum state -- 5. Dynamics of the quantum state -- 6. Energy and uncertainty -- 7. Operators and observationspart II. Exact solutions -- 8. Rectangular potentials -- 9. The har…