Ebook: Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information

Alongside a thorough definition of basic concepts and their interrelations, backed by numerous examples, this textbook features a rare discussion of quantum mechanics and information theory combined in one text. It deals with important topics hardly found in regular textbooks, including the Robertson-Schrödinger relation, incompatibility between angle and angular momentum, “dispersed indeterminacy”, interaction-free measurements, “submissive quantum mechanics”, and many others. With its in-depth discussion of key concepts complete with problems and exercises, this book is poised to become the standard textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate quantum mechanics courses and an essential reference for physics students and physics professionals.
From the contents:

• Embryonic Quantum Mechanics: Basic Features

• Playing with the Amplitudes

• Representations and the Hilbert Space

• Angular Momentum

• Evolution of Quantum States

• Indeterminacy Revisited

• “Submissive” Quantum Mechanics

• Quantum Statistics

• Second Quantization

• Quantum Mechanics and Measurements

• Quantum Non-Locality

• Quantum Measurements and POVMs

• Quantum Information

• Quantum Gates

• Quantum Key Distribution