Authors:Daniel Esteve, Jean-Michel Raimond, Jean Dalibard Ph
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: les, notes, houches, summer, school, lecture, lxxix, information, entanglement, processing, volume, session, quantum
Number of Pages: 638
Published: 2004-12-27
List price: $86.95
ISBN-10: 0444517286
ISBN-13: 9780444517289

It has been recognised recently that the strange features of the quantum world could be used for new information transmission or processing functions such as quantum cryptography or, more ambitiously, quantum computing. These fascinating perspectives renewed the interest in fundamental quantum properties and lead to important theoretical advances, such as quantum algorithms and quantum error correction codes. On the experimental side, remarkable advances have been achieved in quantum optics, solid state physics or nuclear magnetic resonance. This book presents the lecture notes of the Les Houc

Authors:Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Mézard, Jean Dalibard
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: les, houches, summer, school, notes, lecture, systems, volume, lxxxv, complex
Number of Pages: 526
Published: 2007-09-26
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0444530061
ISBN-13: 9780444530066

There has been recently some interdisciplinary convergence on a number of precise topics which can be considered as prototypes of complex systems. This convergence is best appreciated at the level of the techniques needed to deal with these systems, which include: 1) A domain of research around a multiple point where statistical physics, information theory, algorithmic computer science, and more theoretical (probabilistic) computer science meet: this covers some aspects of error correcting codes, stochastic optimization algorithms, typical case complexity and phase transitions, constraint sat

Authors:Jean-Louis Basdevant, Jean Dalibard,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mechanics, quantum
Number of Pages: 511
Published: 2005-09-19
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3540277064
ISBN-13: 9783540277064

This course on quantum mechanics offers a fresh and modern approach to the field. It is a textbook on the principles of the theory, its mathematical framework and its first applications. It consistently refers to modern and practical developments, such as tunneling microscopy, quantum information, Bell inequalities, quantum cryptography, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum astrophysics. The book contains 92 exercises with their solutions. The CD-ROM contains outstanding and "easy access" Java-based simulations, which illustratively help the user to better understand how the theory actually

Authors:Jean Dalibard, Bertrand Duplantier, Vincent Rivassea
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: progress, mathematical, physics, entropy, condensation, seminar, bose, einstein, poincarã©
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2005-12-07
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3764371064
ISBN-13: 9783764371067

This volume contains the third and fourth Poincaré Seminar, both held in 2003. The third one is devoted to Bose-Einstein Condensation: it covers the physics of superfluid liquid helium as well as the recently discovered atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Major experimental results are presented, together with relevant theoretical approaches and remaining open questions. The fourth one is devoted to Entropy, giving a comprehensive account of the history and various realizations of this concept, from thermodynamics to black holes, and includes theoretical and experimental discussions of the corr

Authors:Dmitri Kazakov, Stéphane Lavignac, Jean Dalibard Ph
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: les, notes, houches, summer, school, lecture, lxxxiv, standard, physics, model, volume, session, particle
Number of Pages: 712
Published: 2006-09-27
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 0444528148
ISBN-13: 9780444528148

The Standard Model of elementary particles and interactions is one of the best tested theories in physics. It has been found to be in remarkable agreement with experiment, and its validity at the quantum level has been successfully probed in the electroweak sector. In spite of its experimental successes, though, the Standard Model suffers from a number of limitations, and is likely to be an incomplete theory. It contains many arbitrary parameters; it does not include gravity, the fourth elementary interaction; it does not provide an explanation for the hierarchy between the scale of electrowea

Authors:Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Pascal Fradet, Jean-Louis Giavi
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: selected, revised, september, invited, computer, issues, general, science, france, michel, international, paradigms, programming, workshop, upp, saint, mont, unconventional
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $67.00
ISBN-10: 3540278842
ISBN-13: 9783540278849

Unconventional approaches to programming have long been developed, in various niches and out of curiosity, and they constitute a reservoir of alternative avenues to deal with unknown programming challenges. New paradigms of programming are currently experiencing a renewed period of interest and growth to cope with problems from specific application domains. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Unconventional Programming Paradigms, UPP 2004, held at Le Mont Saint Michel, France, in September 2004. The 26 revised full papers presented

Authors:Jean-Pierre Briot, Jean-Marc Geib, Akinori Yonezawa,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: japan, selected, june, papers, lecture, science, computer, notes, tokyo, obpdc, parallel, based, distributed, computation, workshop, france, object
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 1996-08-29
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 3540614877
ISBN-13: 9783540614876

This book contains a refereed collection of revised papers selected from the presentations at the France-Japan Workshop on Object-Based Parallel and Distributed Computation, OBPDC’95, held in Tokyo in June 1995. The 18 full papers included in the book constitute a representative, well-balanced set of timely research contributions to the growing field of object-based concurrent computing. The volume is organized in sections on massively parallel programming languages, distributed programming languages, formalisms, distributed operating systems, dependable distributed computing, and softwa