Download or read book Quantum Steampunk written by Nicole Yunger Halpern and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is transforming our understanding of information and energy. Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds (as well as centuries) apart, yet a new branch of science, quantum thermodynamics, reenvisions the scientific underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution through the lens of today's roaring quantum information revolution. Classical thermodynamics, understood as the study of engines, energy, and efficiency, needs reimagining to take advantage of quantum mechanics, the basic framework that explores the nature of reality by peering at minute matters, down to the momentum of a single particle. In her exciting new book, intrepid Harvard-trained physicist Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern introduces these concepts to the uninitiated with what she calls "quantum steampunk," after the fantastical genre that pairs futuristic technologies with Victorian sensibilities. While readers follow the adventures of a rag-tag steampunk crew on trains, dirigibles, and automobiles, they explore questions such as, "Can quantum physics revolutionize engines?" and "What deeper secrets can quantum information reveal about the trajectory of time?" Yunger Halpern also describes her own adventures in the quantum universe and provides an insider's look at the work of the scientists obsessed with its technological promise. Moving from fundamental physics to cutting-edge experimental applications, Quantum Steampunk explores the field's aesthetic, shares its whimsy, and gazes into the potential of a quantum future. The result is a blast for fans of science, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Download or read book Programming Quantum Computers written by Eric R. Johnston and published by O'Reilly Media. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum computers are poised to kick-start a new computing revolution—and you can join in right away. If you’re in software engineering, computer graphics, data science, or just an intrigued computerphile, this book provides a hands-on programmer’s guide to understanding quantum computing. Rather than labor through math and theory, you’ll work directly with examples that demonstrate this technology’s unique capabilities. Quantum computing specialists Eric Johnston, Nic Harrigan, and Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia show you how to build the skills, tools, and intuition required to write quantum programs at the center of applications. You’ll understand what quantum computers can do and learn how to identify the types of problems they can solve. This book includes three multichapter sections: Programming for a QPU—Explore core concepts for programming quantum processing units, including how to describe and manipulate qubits and how to perform quantum teleportation. QPU Primitives—Learn algorithmic primitives and techniques, including amplitude amplification, the Quantum Fourier Transform, and phase estimation. QPU Applications—Investigate how QPU primitives are used to build existing applications, including quantum search techniques and Shor’s factoring algorithm.

Download or read book Frontiers of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics written by Gerald T. Moore and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four-week period fran May 20 to June 16, 1984 was an intensive period of advanced study on the foundations and frontiers of nonequili brium statistical physics (NSP). During the first two weeks of this period, an advanced-study course on the "Foundations of NSP" was con ducted in Albuquerque under the sponsorship of the University of New Mexico Center for High-Technology Materials. This was followed by a two-week NATO Advanced Study Insti tute on the "Frontiers of NSP" in Santa Fe under the same directorship. Many Students attended both meetings. This book comprises proceedings based on those lectures and covering a broad spectrum of topics in NSP ranging fran basic problems in quantum measurement theory to analogies between lasers and Darwinian evolution. The various types of quantum distribution functions and their uses are treated by several authors. other tools of NSP, such as Langevin equations, Fokker-Planck equations, and master equations, are developed and applied to areas such as laser physics, plasma physics, Brownian motion, and hydrodynamic instabilities. The properties and experimental detection of squeezed states and antibunching are described, as well as experimental tests of the violation of Bell's inequality. Information theory, mean-field theory, reservoir theory, entropy maximization, and even a novel nonlinear generalization of quantum mechanics are used to discuss nonequilibrium phenanena and the approach toward thermodynamic equilibrium.

Download or read book Quantum Software Engineering written by Manuel A. Serrano and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a set of software engineering techniques and tools to improve the productivity and assure the quality in quantum software development. Through the collaboration of the software engineering community with the quantum computing community new architectural paradigms for quantum-enabled computing systems will be anticipated and developed. The book starts with a chapter that introduces the main concepts and general foundations related to quantum computing. This is followed by a number of chapters dealing with the quantum software engineering methods and techniques. Topics like the Talavera Manifesto for quantum software engineering, frameworks for hybrid systems, formal methods for quantum software engineering, quantum software modelling languages, and reengineering for quantum software are covered in this part. A second set of chapters then deals with quantum software environments and tools, detailing platforms like QuantumPath®, Classiq as well as quantum software frameworks for deep learning. Overall, the book aims at academic researchers and practitioners involved in the creation of quantum information systems and software platforms. It is assumed that readers have a background in traditional software engineering and information systems.

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Download or read book Thermodynamics in the Quantum Regime written by Felix Binder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum Thermodynamics is a novel research field which explores the emergence of thermodynamics from quantum theory and addresses thermodynamic phenomena which appear in finite-size, non-equilibrium and finite-time contexts. Blending together elements from open quantum systems, statistical mechanics, quantum many-body physics, and quantum information theory, it pinpoints thermodynamic advantages and barriers emerging from genuinely quantum properties such as quantum coherence and correlations. Owing to recent experimental efforts, the field is moving quickly towards practical applications, such as nano-scale heat devices, or thermodynamically optimised protocols for emergent quantum technologies. Starting from the basics, the present volume reviews some of the most recent developments, as well as some of the most important open problems in quantum thermodynamics. The self-contained chapters provide concise and topical introductions to researchers who are new to the field. Experts will find them useful as a reference for the current state-of-the-art. In six sections the book covers topics such as quantum heat engines and refrigerators, fluctuation theorems, the emergence of thermodynamic equilibrium, thermodynamics of strongly coupled systems, as well as various information theoretic approaches including Landauer's principle and thermal operations. It concludes with a section dedicated to recent quantum thermodynamics experiments and experimental prospects on a variety of platforms ranging from cold atoms to photonic systems, and NV centres.

Download or read book The two tracks Particle or Wave written by Jan Edvin Andersen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second in a brand-new revealing series of the new and fully proven 5-dimensional quantum physical universe! The big-bang physics and philosophy are now completely disproved by the particle accelerator, in the absence of alleged particles! The universe has now been proven by scientists and by the particle accelerator down there in Cern! This evidence points only in one direction, towards a universe consisting only of energetic oscillating fields, and a most strange matter, and absolutely no form of physical particles! This book is a sequel to 'Rediscovering the Fifth Dimension'! These two books will explain you the entire new 5-dimensional quantum physical universe, consisting only of energetic oscillating fields and a very wondrous substance! Together, it adds up absolutely everything that we can see, discover and detect! The very active universal engine room, the place where absolutely everything of physical actions unfolds, consists of 5 very active dimensions! Outside, there is what you might call, 'quiet'! Only the deep mysteries of quantum physics can give you the answer to the remaining dimensions besides! All of the active physical actions that only take place in the very active engine room, are quantum physical actions! It is only these 5 quantum physical dimensions that are actually the active universal engine room, and it is only the two outers of these 5 dimensions, that are the driving force of the 5-dimensional very active quantum physical universe! The two most exciting dimensions in the active engine room are the 5th and the 4th dimensions! Therein we find just the right quantum physics and these two books will convince you of that! They just need to be read and understood! The books will explain to you about the real creation of the universe, and will explain to you the real inflation and how it develops! The new expansion law will be explained, something that drives inflation and expansion in the universe! Universal gravity is explained in the first and fundamental book, along with how gravity creates and powers this quantum physical universe! You will be explained how and what atoms basically are, along with the Higgs fields! The Higgs fields are very special! Because the matter is very special in this quantum physical universe, in which there are no forms of 100% physical particles whatsoever! A totally particle-less universe with only energetic oscillating fields and the matter from all the Higgs fields!

Download or read book Thermodynamics and Synchronization in Open Quantum Systems written by Gonzalo Manzano Paule and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores some of the connections between dissipative and quantum effects from a theoretical point of view. It focuses on three main topics: the relation between synchronization and quantum correlations, the thermodynamical properties of fluctuations, and the performance of quantum thermal machines. Dissipation effects have a profound impact on the behavior and properties of quantum systems, and the unavoidable interaction with the surrounding environment, with which systems continuously exchange information, energy, angular momentum and matter, is ultimately responsible for decoherence phenomena and the emergence of classical behavior. However, there is a wide intermediate regime in which the interplay between dissipative and quantum effects gives rise to a plethora of rich and striking phenomena that has just started to be understood. In addition, the recent breakthrough techniques in controlling and manipulating quantum systems in the laboratory have made this phenomenology accessible in experiments and potentially applicable.

Download or read book Using Mathematica for Quantum Mechanics written by Roman Schmied and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits many of the problems encountered in introductory quantum mechanics, focusing on computer implementations for finding and visualizing analytical and numerical solutions. It subsequently uses these implementations as building blocks to solve more complex problems, such as coherent laser-driven dynamics in the Rubidium hyperfine structure or the Rashba interaction of an electron moving in 2D. The simulations are highlighted using the programming language Mathematica. No prior knowledge of Mathematica is needed; alternatives, such as Matlab, Python, or Maple, can also be used.

Download or read book A Network Orange written by Richard Crandall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary thesis here is the authors' belief that the emergence of computers as an elemental force in our society must be viewed with a sceptical eye. Crandall and Levich, one a mathematician, the other a philosopher, strive, however, to present a balanced viewpoint, investigating and reflecting on the good and bad sides of this revolution, and seek meaning in this "Information Age". Their examination is stripped of journalistic hyperbole, the cries of self-serving prophets, and the sales pitches of the soft- and hardware industries. In separating the wheat from the chaff, the authors provide readers with a much better understanding of the limitations of these new technologies, along with propositions for their better use and within the societal context.

Download or read book Dr Erwin Mind Travel written by Hugh Touchai and published by Hugh Touchai. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Erwin Mind Travel: Sphere of the Pacific is a fast-paced, scientifically grounded, and intellectually captivating space opera that explores the boundaries of human consciousness and the possibilities of advanced technology. With a thrilling narrative that seamlessly blends cutting-edge science with imaginative storytelling, the book takes readers on a journey through time, space, and the very fabric of reality. The Dr Erwin series is not just another time-travel story—it’s an exploration of cutting-edge quantum technology and the depths of human consciousness, offering a scientifically plausible path to Mind Travel Technology. The series promises breathtaking visual storytelling, from awe-inspiring views of the cosmos and the solar system’s vast wonders to alien landscapes that evoke a sense of mystery and grandeur. These otherworldly realms are as vivid as they are uncharted, filled with unknown civilisations and surreal natural phenomena. Unlike traditional time-travel stories, Dr Erwin Mind Travel is rooted in real scientific theory, which I’ve detailed extensively in Sphere of the Pacific. Dr Erwin Mind Travel: Sphere of the Pacific opens with Dr Erwin’s dramatic return from the Nexus System after an eighty-six-million-year journey, only to find Earth in crisis. This gripping premise sets the stage for a high-stakes narrative which begins on Earth in 2052. While only two years have passed on Earth, Dr Erwin has spent twenty years in the Nexus system, a place he had seen in his dreams. These dreams compelled him to build the Mind Travel technology, and once it was completed, he sent his mind to a location that no longer existed in the present-day Earth timeline but had once existed in the distant past. His return to Earth was not by choice but a matter of survival. Escaping the ruthless pursuit of his nemesis, Zoran Silver—the Siliconian Emperor with a steely vendetta—Erwin narrowly made it back to Earth. However, much had changed in his absence, and upon his return, he faced a new crisis, one closer to home. This existential threat was an unintended consequence of his journey to the Nexus system; by interfering in the past, he had inadvertently endangered Earth and all its inhabitants, as Zoran caught up with him in the present. On Earth, Erwin had once been revered as an experimental physicist, a pioneer who ventured beyond the boundaries of known science. His groundbreaking invention allowed human consciousness to be transported into the past, offering a glimpse of history firsthand. Visionaries and investors flocked to him, eager to explore the extraordinary opportunities. The promise was profound: anyone could embark on immersive journeys to witness pivotal historical moments or relive cherished memories, experiencing lifetimes while their physical bodies rested in hyper-sleep chambers powered by quantum mind-travel technology. Yet reality diverged sharply from Dr Erwin’s vision. His invention, which held the potential for profound discovery, unleashed consequences he had not anticipated. In his quest to unlock the secrets of time, Erwin created ripples that disrupted the very fabric of reality, sending shockwaves across the cosmos with unpredictable and far-reaching effects. Across the galaxy, Dr Erwin had earned a new name: the Observer. Whispered in hushed tones, the Observer had become a symbol of defiance against Zoran Silver, the Siliconian Emperor, who ruled with an iron fist. Erwin’s resistance had made him a beacon of hope for those suffering under the Empire’s oppressive rule. Despite the Empire’s vast technological power, the Observer wielded a different kind of strength—the belief in transformation and the resilience of the galactic spirit.

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Download or read book Nanotechnology written by Sunipa Roy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nano particles have created a high interest in recent years by virtue of their unusual mechanical, electrical, optical and magnetic properties and find wide applications in all fields of engineering. This edited volume aims to present the latest trends and updates in nanogenerators, thin film solar cells and green synthesis of metallic nanoparticles with a focus on nanostructured semiconductor devices. Exclusive chapter on electrical transport of nanostructure explains device physics for material properties for reduced dimensions. Additionally, the text describes the functionality of metallic nanoparticles and their application in molecular imaging and optical metamaterials. Piezoelectric nanogenerators has been touched upon from the energy perspective as well. Key Features: • Organized contents on Nanogenerators, VOC sensing, nanoelectronics, and NEMS. • Discusses eco-friendly green synthesis methods for metallic nanoparticles. • Touches upon low power nano devices (e.g. nanogenerators) for energy harvesting with quantum mechanical study. • Thin film/heterojunction based high efficiency solar cell addressed aimed at reducing global energy consumption.

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