Quantum mechanics. With applications to nanotechnology and information science
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 1303.81001
author: Yehuda B. Band
author: Yshai Avishai
publication date: 2012-10-24T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81-01
zbMATH DE Number: 6098202
zbMATH Keywords: quantum mechanics
zbMATH Keywords: nanotechnology
zbMATH Keywords: quantum information
MaRDI profile type: Publication
title: Quantum mechanics. With applications to nanotechnology and information science
review text: This book is a grandiose project creating a unified source of all important information related to modern Quantum Mechanics. The 971-page work is a mixture of a textbook and an encyclopedia. Or even just a special type of encyclopedia --- the one containing articles ordered logically, rather then alphabetically. Fifteen Chapters comprise material which can serve for numerous introductive and advanced courses on Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, Quantum Engineering / Nanotechnology, Quantum Chemistry. Five Appendices briefly explain requisite mathematical notions and concepts used in the book. The on-line support of the book ({\texttt{https://sites.google.com/site/thequantumbook}}) supplies some deeper treatments of recently developing topics and a review on Classical Mechanics.NEWLINENEWLINEThe book is oriented on an advanced reader such as graduate students, teaching and research faculty. The exposition aims to be comprehensive and useful for a wide spectrum of specialists focusing, e.g., on Theoretical or Experimental Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Informatics or Mathematics. Thereby the treatments reflect different aspects of the subjects of study: present mathematical considerations and theoretical conclusions, discuss particular experiments, devices and physical systems, outline the interplay between theory and practice. The text is of encyclopedic style: very informative and concise. The material is good designed and has a very good balance between verbal explanations and math in the text and between the text itself, problems and illustrations.NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors start with a historical survey and fundamental concepts giving birth to Quantum Mechanics. Then proceed with standard topics of quantum-mechanical textbooks in Chapters 2-4. Further Chapters are devoted to more advanced and recently hot topics. Chapter 5 is devoted to Quantum Information and discusses decoherence, entanglement and EPR paradox on one hand and quantum teleportation, quantu…
reviewed by: Yana Kinderknecht
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6098202