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9780198854234

Quantum Mechanics for Beginners With Applications to Quantum Communication and Quantum Computing

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    9780198854234

  • ISBN10:

    0198854234

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2020-07-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


M. Suhail Zubairy, University Distinguished Professor and Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University

Prof. Zubairy is a University Distinguished Professor and the holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics at Texas A&M University. He has made many pioneering contributions in the fields of quantum optics and quantum information. He is co-author (with Marlan Scully) of a classic textbook on Quantum Optics. Prof. Zubairy has received many honors including the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Distinguished Scientists, and the George H. W. Bush Award for Excellence in International Research. He is Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, and Optical Society of America.

Table of Contents


1. What is this book about?
I Introductory Topics
2. Mathematical background
3. Particle dynamics
4. Wave theory
II Fundamentals of quantum mechanics
5. Fundamentals of quantum mechanics
6. Birth of quantum mechanics - Planck, Einstein, Bohr
7. de Broglie waves: Are electrons waves or particles?
8. Quantum interference -- wave-particle duality
9. Simplest quantum devices: Polarizers and beam splitters
10. Quantum superposition and entanglement
11. No-cloning theorem
12. EPR and Bell theorem
III Quantum communication
13. Quantum secure communication
14. Quantum communication with invisible photons
IV Quantum computing
15. Quantum computing I
16. Quantum computing II
V Schrodinger equation
17. Demise of Newtonian dynamics: Schrodinger equation

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