Quantum Measurement Theory and its Applications
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Quantum Measurement Theory and its Applications

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Quantum Measurement Theory and its Applications

About this book

Recent experimental advances in the control of quantum superconducting circuits, nano-mechanical resonators and photonic crystals has meant that quantum measurement theory is now an indispensable part of the modelling and design of experimental technologies. This book, aimed at graduate students and researchers in physics, gives a thorough introduction to the basic theory of quantum measurement and many of its important modern applications. Measurement and control is explicitly treated in superconducting circuits and optical and opto-mechanical systems, and methods for deriving the Hamiltonians of superconducting circuits are introduced in detail. Further applications covered include feedback control, metrology, open systems and thermal environments, Maxwell's demon, and the quantum-to-classical transition.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright Information
  5. Dedication page
  6. Table of contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Quantum measurement theory
  9. 2 Useful concepts from information theory
  10. 3 Continuous measurement
  11. 4 Statistical mechanics, open systems, and measurement
  12. 5 Quantum feedback control
  13. 6 Metrology
  14. 7 Quantum mesoscopic systems I: circuits and measurements
  15. 8 Quantum mesoscopic systems II: measurement and control
  16. Appendix A The tensor product and partial trace
  17. Appendix B A fast-track introduction for experimentalists
  18. Appendix C A quick introduction to Ito calculus
  19. Appendix D Operators for qubits and modes
  20. Appendix E Dictionary of measurements
  21. Appendix F Input–output theory
  22. Appendix G Various formulae and techniques
  23. Appendix H Some proofs and derivations
  24. References
  25. Index