Six Quantum Pieces: A First Course In Quantum Physics
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Six Quantum Pieces: A First Course In Quantum Physics by Valerio Scarani
This book is an original first approach to quantum physics, the core of modern physics. It combines the competence of a well-known researcher in quantum information science and the freshness in style of two high school students.Quantum physics is known to be challenging for two reasons: it describes counter-intuitive phenomena and employs rather advanced mathematics. The description of “traditional” quantum phenomena (the structure of atoms and molecules, the properties of solids, the zoology of sub-atomic particles) does indeed involve the whole formalism. However, some other striking phenomena, somehow the most “typically quantum” ones, can be described using only high school mathematical skills. This approach exploits this fact, thus making it possible for a beginner to tackle mind-boggling experiments like teleportation and the violation of Bell's inequalities, and practice notions like superposition, entanglement and decoherence.Valerio Scarani, Principal investigator at Centre for Quantum Technologies and professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore. Valerio Scarani received his degree in 1996 in the Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne (Switzerland), with a work in mathematical physics. He got his Ph.D. from the same institution four years later with an experimental research project in nuclear magnetic resonance. He moved to the group of
Nicolas Gisin at the University of Geneva, where he started working in theoretical quantum information science. Since 2007 he has been at the National University of Singapore, where he is currently principal investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies and a professor in the Department of
Physics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789814327541 |
| ISBN 10 | 9814327549 |
| Title | Six Quantum Pieces: A First Course In Quantum Physics |
| Author | Valerio Scarani |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Company |
| Year published | 2010-09-17 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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