Buch, Englisch, 652 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1287 g
Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 89, July 2008
Buch, Englisch, 652 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1287 g
Reihe: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School
ISBN: 978-0-19-957461-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
State of the art lectures in a fast growing field
Written from a pedagogical perspective
Presents fundamental issues in statistical mechanics
Provides guidance to a new and highly challenging research field
Widespread applications in different areas of science and technology
Recent years have shown important and spectacular convergences between techniques traditionally used in theoretical physics and methods emerging from modern mathematics (combinatorics, probability theory, topology, algebraic geometry, etc). These techniques, and in particular those of low-dimensional statistical models, are instrumental in improving our understanding of emerging fields, such as quantum computing and cryptography, complex systems, and quantum fluids. This book sets these issues into a larger and more coherent theoretical context than is currently available. For instance, understanding the key concepts of quantum entanglement (a measure of information density) necessitates a thorough knowledge of quantum and topological field theory, and integrable models. To achieve this goal, the lectures were given by international leaders in the fields of exactly solvable models in low dimensional condensed matter and statistical physics.
Zielgruppe
Beginning graduate students in physics and statistical physics. Masters lecturers, PhD lecturers, researchers entering the field for the first time.
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LECTURES
1: I. Affleck: Quantum impurity problems in condensed matter physics
2: J. Cardy: Conformal field theory and statistical mechanics
3: D. Haldane: Quantum Hall effect
4: A. Kitaev: Topological quantum phases and quantum computation
5: W. Krauth: Four lectures on computational statistical physics
6: B. Nienhuis: Loop models
7: N. Reshetikhin: Lectures on the integrability of the 6-vertex model
8: W. Werner: Mathematical aspects of 2D phase transitions
9: F. Alet: Numerical simulations of quantum statistical mechanics models
10: N. Cooper: Rapidly rotating atomic Bose gases
11: J. Frohlich: Quantum Hall effect
12: R. Kenyon: The dimer model
13: I. Kostov: Boundary loop models and 2D quantum gravity
14: S. Majumdar: Real-space condensation in stochastic mass transport models
15: G. Misguich: Quantum spin liquids
16: H. Saleur: Super spin chains and super sigma models: a short introduction
17: P. Zinn-Justin: Integrability and combinatorics: selected topics
SEMINARS
18: B. Duplantier: A rigorous perspective on Liouville quantum gravity and KPZ
19: M. Feigelman: Topologically protected qubits based on Josepshon junction arrays
20: T. Jolicoeur: On some quantum Hall states with negative flux
21: D. Thouless: Supersolidity and what soluble models can tell us about it
