Quantum 20/20: Fundamentals, Entanglement, Gauge Fields, Condensates and Topology

by Ian R. Kenyon

Overview

This book aims to provide support for lecture courses on general quantum physics for university undergraduates in the final year(s) of a physics degree programme. The first chapter reviews the basic quantum mechanics needed for getting the best out of the text. Instructors are then free to concentrate on a group of chapters, or select components from all chapters, whichever suits their needs. The text covers key themes of quantum physics, taking the perspective achieved after more than a century of research, and emphasizes the effectiveness and the subtlety of quantum concepts in explaining diverse physical phenomena. The book helps bring out these unifying ideas and illustrates them with important examples from modern experiments and applications.

The book maintains a level of presentation accessible to undergraduates, and provides exercises and solutions to reinforce the learning process. Solutions to the exercises are available via the OUP webpage link for the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198808367
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/04/2019
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ian R. Kenyon, Professor, Birmingham University

Ian Kenyon is an elementary particle physicist in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK. He took part in the discovery of the carriers of the weak force, working at CERN for three years on the design, construction, data-taking and analysis of the UA1 experiment. Earlier he designed and constructed the optics for the Northwestern University 50cm liquid helium bubble chamber. More recently he worked at the HERA electron-proton collider on the H1 experiment. He is the author of three advanced textbooks for physics undergraduates: Elementary Particle Physics, General Relativity (also translated into Japanese) and The Light Fantastic - A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics.

Table of Contents

1. Review of basic quantum physics2. Solutions to Schrodinger's equations3. Quantum statistics4. Phonons5. Electrons in solids6. Semiconductors7. Transitions8. Field quantization9. Entanglement10. EPR and Bell's theorem, and quantum algorithms11. Quantum measurement12. Cavity quantum physics13. Symmetry and topology14. Superfluid 4He15. Superconductivity16. Gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates17. Quantum Hall effects18. Particle physics I19. Particle physics IIAppendices
A Vector calculusB Mode densitiesC Density matrixD The Bloch sphere, spin-1/2, and qubitsE Perturbation theoryF RSA encryptionG The Dirac equationH Higgs LagrangianI Entangled beauty and CP violationJ The Gross-Pitaevskii equationK Kubo's Hall conductance formula

Editorial Reviews

"A highly recommended textbook for advanced university physics students. The problem sets require thinking that evolves from the chapter's content and serve as both a learning experience and an assessment of the reader's understanding of the material. I found the mathematical description and the physical insights of the text well matched and tightly linked in a synergistic manner. The text is augmented with figures (some in colour) of actual experimental data, instruments, and Feynman diagrams. I commend the author on his comprehensive and extensive development of these modern aspects of quantum mechanics." — Barry R. Masters, Formerly Visiting Scientist, MIT

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