Overview
- Offers a powerful new approach to teaching quantum physics for the quantum information age
- Contains a large collection of problems, with detailed solutions available at https://users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~lvovsky/quantumbook/
- Clearly conveys the essential formal concepts while keeping the mathematics simple
- Leads the student to an appreciation of the entangled quantum world from the very first page
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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This textbook is intended to accompany a two-semester course on quantum mechanics for physics students. Along with the traditional material covered in such a course (states, operators, Schrödinger equation, hydrogen atom), it offers in-depth discussion of the Hilbert space, the nature of measurement, entanglement, and decoherence – concepts that are crucial for the understanding of quantum physics and its relation to the macroscopic world, but rarely covered in entry-level textbooks.
The book uses a mathematically simple physical system – photon polarization – as the visualization tool, permitting the student to see the entangled beauty of the quantum world from the very first pages. The formal concepts of quantum physics are illustrated by examples from the forefront of modern quantum research, such as quantum communication, teleportation and nonlocality.
The author adopts a Socratic pedagogy: The student is guided to develop the machinery ofquantum physics independently by solving sets of carefully chosen problems. Detailed solutions are provided.
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Book Title: Quantum Physics
Book Subtitle: An Introduction Based on Photons
Authors: A.I Lvovsky
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56584-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56582-7Published: 25 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-56584-1Published: 12 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 303
Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics, Quantum Optics, Quantum Computing