| Ultracold gases and quantum information: École d'été de physique des Houches in Singapore, session XCI, 29 June-24 July, July 2009, École thématique du CNRS / ed. by C.Miniatura et al. - Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. - xxxi, 630 p.: ill., ports. - Other titles: Les Houches 2009 - session XCI. - Incl. bibl. ref. - ISBN 978-0-19-960365-7
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List of participants .......................................... xxv
1 Basics on Bose—Einstein condensation ......................... 1
1.1 Introduction ............................................ 2
1.2 Ideal Bose-Einstein condensates ......................... 3
1.3 Mean-field theory ...................................... 15
1.4 Beyond mean-field theory ............................... 39
1.5 Bimodal condensates .................................... 51
Notes ....................................................... 60
Acknowledgments ............................................. 62
References .................................................. 62
2 Degenerate Fermi gases ...................................... 66
2.1 Introduction ........................................... 67
2.2 Ideal Fermi gas ........................................ 69
2.3 Two-component Fermi gas ................................ 84
Appendix A: The renormalization procedure .................. 100
Notes ...................................................... 101
Acknowledgments ............................................ 101
References ................................................. 102
3 Quantum information: primitive notions and quantum
correlations ............................................... 105
3.1 Quantum theory ........................................ 106
3.2 Primitives of quantum information (I) ................. 120
3.3 Primitives of quantum information (II) ................ 131
3.4 Quantum correlations (I): the failure of alternative
descriptions .......................................... 143
3.5 Quantum correlations (II): the mathematics of
no-signalling ......................................... 156
3.6 Quantum correlations (III): the power of Bell ......... 165
Notes ...................................................... 170
References ................................................. 173
4 Quantum computing and entanglement ......................... 178
4.1 Introduction .......................................... 179
4.2 Quantum networks ...................................... 181
4.3 Quantum algorithms .................................... 183
4.4 Quantum error correction .............................. 190
4.5 Entanglement: introduction and basic definitions ...... 195
4.6 Entanglement and quantum algorithms ................... 203
4.7 One-way quantum computing ............................. 209
Acknowledgments ............................................ 216
References ................................................. 216
5 Quantum computation with trapped ions and atoms ............ 218
Preface .................................................... 219
5.1 Ion (and atom) quantum logic .......................... 219
5.2 Scalability ........................................... 234
5.3 Qubit interfacing ..................................... 236
Note ....................................................... 241
References ................................................. 241
6 Quantum Hall effects ....................................... 253
Preface .................................................... 254
6.1 Introduction .......................................... 255
6.2 Landau quantization ................................... 267
6.3 Integer quantum Hall effect ........................... 287
6.4 Strong correlations and the fractional quantum Hall
effect ................................................ 305
6.5 Brief overview of multicomponent quantum Hall
systems ............................................... 327
Appendix A: Electronic band structure of graphene .......... 341
Appendix B: Landau levels of massive Dirac particles ....... 345
Notes ...................................................... 347
References ................................................. 352
7 Quantum phase transitions .................................. 356
7.1 Introduction .......................................... 357
7.2 Quantum Ising model ................................... 362
7.3 Hubbard model ......................................... 369
7.4 Conclusions ........................................... 390
7.5 Appendix: The Jordan-Wigner transformation ............ 390
References ................................................. 393
8 Interactions in quantum fluids ............................. 395
8.1 Introduction .......................................... 396
8.2 Fermi liquids ......................................... 397
8.3 Beyond Fermi liquid ................................... 413
8.4 One-dimensional systems ............................... 426
8.5 Conclusions ........................................... 438
Acknowledgments ............................................ 439
References ................................................. 439
9 Disorder and interference: localization phenomena .......... 441
9.1 Introduction .......................................... 442
9.2 Transfer-matrix description of transport and
Anderson localization in ID systems ................... 446
9.3 Scaling theory of localization ........................ 456
9.4 Key numerical and experimental results ................ 465
9.5 Microscopic description of quantum transport .......... 480
9.6 Coherent backscattering (CBS) ......................... 495
9.7 Weak localization (WL) ................................ 509
9.8 Kicked rotor .......................................... 517
Notes ...................................................... 526
References ................................................. 527
10 Quantum information processing and quantum optics
devices .................................................... 534
10.1 Basic field quantization - the foundations ............ 535
10.2 A silly question: what is a photon? ................... 555
10.3 Parametric-down conversion: a common workhouse ........ 589
10.4 Quantum information with photons ...................... 605
Notes ......................................................... 628
References .................................................... 628
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