"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Theoretical aspects -- 1.1. The Jaynes-Cummings model -- 1.2. Jaynes-Cummings dynamics -- 1.3. Driven and open Jaynes-Cummings physics -- 1.4. Beyond the rotating wave approximation : the quantum Rabi model -- 1.5. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models -- 1.6. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models turned into single partic…
"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Molecular symmetry -- 1.1. Symmetry operations and elements -- 1.2. How to classify molecules by symmetry? -- 1.3. Implications of symmetry2. Basic quantum mechanics -- 2.1. Wave functions specify a system's state -- 2.2. Operators represent observables -- 2.3. Schr?odinger's equation -- 2.4. Measured and average values3…
"Version: 20220701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Two-level quantum systems -- 1.1. Vectors and matrices -- 1.2. Foundation of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Quantum state vectors -- 1.4. Non-cloning principle for qbit -- 1.5. Quantum entanglement -- 1.6. Another example of qbit2. Universal gates -- 2.1. Classical universal gates -- 2.2. Alternative universal gates -- 2.3.…
"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why phase space? -- 1.2. Why not direct quantum methods? -- 1.3. Advantages and challenges of phase space -- 1.4. Old applications, new perspectives2. Wave packet formulation -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Wave packets as eigenfunctions in the classical limit -- 2.3. Wave packet symmetrization and over…
"Version: 20220701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction2. Overview figures for a method of understanding quantum computing -- 2.1. What quantum-gated computing needs in its algorithms -- 2.2. Every reversibility in quantum circuits is by virtue of exclusive OR -- 2.3. Equivalence of the circuits by virtue of superposition of qubits to be ap…
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Foundations of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Ward's observations -- 1.4. History of quantum entanglement -- 1.5. The field of quantum entanglement -- 1.6. Fundamentals of quantum entanglement -- 1.7. Intent2. Dirac's physics -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Dirac's pair theor…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of basics -- 1.1. About quantum mechanics -- 1.2. Hilbert space -- 1.3. Elementary quantum mechanics -- 1.4. Dirac and von Neumann -- 1.5. Rigged Hilbert space -- 1.6. Observables and Hermitean operators -- 1.7. The uncertainty relation -- 1.8. Commuting observables -- 1.9. Unitary operators -- 1.10. The Gaussian …
"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introductory remarks -- 1.2. Organization of the book -- 1.3. References2. The measurement problem and interpretations of quantum mechanics -- 2.1. The wave-particle duality and complementarity principle -- 2.2. Copenhagen interpretation -- 2.3. Entanglement entropy -- 2.4. EPR and Bell's theorem1 --…
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Motivation -- 1.2. Photons, waves and fields -- 1.3. A necessary notepart I. Basic photon states. 2. Field quantisation -- 2.1. Quantum mechanical background -- 2.2. Harmonic oscillator -- 2.3. Electromagnetic field quantisation -- 2.4. Canonical quantisation -- 2.5. Photon wavefunction -- 2.6. Qua…