Photon Scattering -- Lepton Scattering -- Quasi-Elastic Lepton-Quark Scattering -- The Hydrogen Atom -- Many Electron Atoms -- Hadrons -- Covalent and Ionic Bonding -- Intermolecular Forces -- Cold Neutron Scattering -- The Nuclear Force and the Deuteron -- Quantum Gases -- Quantum Liquids -- Metals -- Nuclei — Droplets of a Fermi Liquid -- Stars, Planets, and Asteroids -- Elementary Particle…
What Is the Measurement Problem Anyway? Introductory Reflections on Quantum Puzzles -- Radically Quantum: Liberation and Purification from Classical Prejudice -- Quantum Physics as a Science of Information -- Quantum Theory Looks at Time Travel -- What Connects Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics? -- Is Quantum Mechanics the Whole Truth? -- Roundtable Discussion I: Physical Theories,…
The Mass and Size of the Atom -- Isotopes -- The Nucleus of the Atom -- The Photon -- The Electron -- Some Basic Properties of Matter Waves -- Bohr’s Model of the Hydrogen Atom -- The Mathematical Framework of Quantum Theory -- Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom -- Lifting of the Orbital Degeneracy in the Spectra of Alkali Atoms -- Orbital and Spin Magnetism. Fine Structure -- Atoms in a …
Elementary Newtonian Mechanics -- The Principles of Canonical Mechanics -- The Mechanics of Rigid Bodies -- Relativistic Mechanics -- Geometric Aspects of Mechanics -- Stability and Chaos -- Continuous Systems.This updated and revised fourth edition covers all topics in mechanics from elementary Newtonian mechanics, canonical and rigid body mechanics to relativistic mechanics and nonlinear dyna…
The Thermodynamics of Black Holes -- to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect -- Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity -- Lectures on D-branes, Tachyon Condensation, and String Field Theory -- Billiard Dynamics of Einstein-Matter Systems Near a Spacelike Singularity -- Tall Tales from de Sitter Space -- Causal Sets: Discrete Gravity -- Thermaldecay of the Cosmolo…
Introduction -- The Source of Examples -- Invariance Equation in the Differential Form -- Film Extension of the Dynamics: Slowness as Stability -- Entropy, Quasi-Equilibrium and Projector Field -- Newton Method with Incomplete Linearization -- Quasi-chemical Representation -- Hydrodynamics from Grad's Equations: Exact Solutions -- Relaxation Methods -- Method of Invariant Grids -- Method of Nat…
Lectures -- Investigating Physical Systems with Optical Spectroscopy -- Light-Matter Interactions on the Femtosecond Time Scale -- Photons and Photon Statistics: From Incandescent Light to Lasers -- Carrier-Wave Nonlinear Optics -- Carotenoid Excited States-Photophysics, Ultrafast Dynamics and Photosynthetic Functions -- Spectroscopy of Quantum Wells and Superlattices -- Lasers for Frontier Spe…
Invited Articles -- Progress in Quantum Algorithms -- NMR Quantum Information Processing -- Quantum Computing with Trapped Ion Hyperfine Qubits -- Ion Trap Quantum Computing with Ca+ Ions -- Quantum Information Processing in Cavity-QED -- Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Neutral Atoms -- The Road to a Silicon Quantum Computer -- Controlling Spin Qubits in Quantum Dots -- Spin-based Q…
Editorial Article -- Role of Entanglement in Quantum Computing and Information Processing -- Quantum Ensembles and Quantum Informatics -- Entanglement in Quantum Information Processing -- Easy Control Over Fermionic Computations -- Multiatom and Multiphoton Entanglement -- Multiatom and Multiphoton Entanglement -- On the Advanced Wave Model of Parametric Down-Conversion -- Quantum Logics Based …
Nonrelativistic Many-Particle Systems -- Second Quantization -- Spin-1/2 Fermions -- Bosons -- Correlation Functions, Scattering, and Response -- Relativistic Wave Equations -- Relativistic Wave Equations and their Derivation -- Lorentz Transformations and Covariance of the Dirac Equation -- Orbital Angular Momentum and Spin -- The Coulomb Potential -- The Foldy—Wouthuysen Transformation and …