Quantum Information and Coherence

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Andersson, Erika (Editor), Öhberg, Patrik (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Scottish Graduate Series
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum computers.; Quantum physics.; Phase transformations (Statistical physics).; Condensed materials.; Condensed matter.; Quantum optics.; Spintronics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Gases and Condensates.; Quantum Optics.; Quantum Computing.

This book offers an introduction to ten key topics in quantum information science and quantum coherent phenomena, aimed at graduate-student level. The chapters cover some of the most recent developments in this dynamic research field where theoretical and experimental physics, combined with computer...

Table of Contents:

• Quantum Retrodiction
• Probling and Controlling Quantum Matter Using Ultracold Quantum Gases in Optical Lattices
• Towards Macroscopic Superpositions via Single-Photon Optomechanics
• An Introduction to Quantum Algorithms: A Physicist's Perspective
• Quantum Key Distribution
• Quantum Control Based On Measurement
• Orbital Angular Momentum: Testbed for Quantum Mechanics
• An Introduction to Entanglement Theory
• An Introduction to Trapped Ions, Scalability and Quantum Metrology
• Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence.