The new quantum age : from Bell's theorem to quantum computation and teleportation

• Main Author: Whitaker, Andrew
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2012; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Quantum theory
• ISBN: 9780199589135; 0199589135

A clear account of what has been discovered in recent years about quantum theory, its counter-intuitive features - non-locality, indeterminism, intrinsic uncertainty - and what it tells us about the universe. The book also explains how these ideas have led to a new subject of limitless possibilities...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The First Quantum Age and the New Quantum Age -- Part I: The First Quantum Age -- 1 Quantum theory-basic ideas -- ALBERT EINSTEIN -- 2 Quantum theory and discreteness -- MAX PLANCK -- 3 The Schrödinger equation -- The time-independent Schrödinger equation, eigenfunctions, and eigenvalues -- ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER -- NIELS BOHR -- The time-dependent Schrödinger equation and wave-functions -- 4 Superposition -- Superposition -- The Born probability rule or interpretation -- MAX BORN -- The conceptual challenges posed by superposition -- The measurement problem of quantum theory -- JOHN VON NEUMANN -- Hidden variables -- LOUIS DE BROGLIE -- WOLFGANG PAULI -- 5 Further complications -- Measurement of other observables -- Wave and particle, and the Heisenberg principle -- WERNER HEISENBERG -- PASCUAL JORDAN -- PAUL DIRAC -- States of a spin-&amp -- #189 -- particle -- photon polarization states -- 6 Orthodox and non-orthodox interpretations of quantum theory -- DAVID BOHM -- HUGH EVERETT -- Part II: The foundations of quantum theory -- 7 Entanglement -- Bohr, Einstein, and complementarity -- Locality -- Entanglement -- Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen -- Einstein and the EPR argument -- Bohr and EPR -- Schrödinger's response to EPR -- 8 The achievement of John Bell -- John Bell -- John Bell and quantum theory-the early years and the Bohm interpretation -- John Bell-von Neumann and the first great paper -- Bell and measurement-1966 -- Bell's second great paper-realism and locality -- Einstein and Bell -- Bell and relativity -- 9 Experimental philosophy: the first decade -- Clauser and Shimony -- Preliminaries and planning -- CHSH-Clauser, Horne, Shimony, and Holt -- The experiments of the first decade -- Putting the theory on firmer foundations -- Conclusions towards the end of the decade -- 10 Alain Aspect: ruling out signalling
• Conclusions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
• Aspect and Bell -- The Aspect experiments -- The aftermath -- 11 Recent developments on Bell's inequalities -- Zeilinger, Greenberger, and Gisin -- The neutron interferometer -- Parametric down-conversion -- Closing the locality loophole -- Gisin and the experiments at Lake Geneva -- Other experiments on Bell's theorem and the detector loophole (with a detour on Bell and Bertlmann) -- 12 Bell's theorem without inequalities -- GHZ: Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger -- GHZ-experimental proof -- Interaction-free measurement -- Hardy's experiment -- 13 The new age -- Times have changed -- Novel quantum interpretations -- Environmental decoherence -- The quantum Zeno effect -- Macroscopic quantum theory -- 14 Bell's last thoughts -- Bell's six possible worlds of quantum mechanics -- Against 'measurement' -- Part III: An introduction to quantum information theory -- 15 Knowledge, information, and (a little about) quantum information -- Peierls, knowledge, and information -- Information, information, information -- An introduction to classical information and computation -- Some elements of classical computers -- 16 Feynman and the prehistory of quantum computation -- Feynman and miniaturization -- Feynman and quantum simulators -- Reversibility in physics and in computation -- Feynman and reversible computation -- 17 Quantum computation -- Moore's law -- David Deutsch and quantum computation -- The Deutsch algorithm -- Shor's algorithm -- Grover's algorithm -- Decoherence and quantum error correction -- 18 Constructing a quantum computer -- Requirements for a quantum computer -- The NMR quantum computer -- The ion trap quantum computer -- Computing with quantum dots -- Quantum computing with superconductors -- 19 More techniques in quantum information theory -- Quantum cryptography -- Quantum teleportation -- Entanglement swapping -- Super-dense coding