Table of Contents

1: Waves
2: Quantum Particles and Waves
3: Harmonic Oscillators
4: Superposition
5: Entanglement
6: The Mach--Zehnder Interferometer
7: Bell's Theorem and the Merman Machine
8: What Is a Wave Function?
9: Bose--Einstein Condensation and Superuidity
10: The Quantum Zeno Effect
11: Bosons and Fermions
12: The Quantum Eraser
13: Virtual Particles and the Four Forces
14: Teleportation of a Quantum State
15: Quantum Computing
16: Weird Measurements
Epilogue

About the Author

William J. Mullin is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts. His areas of research are quantum fluids and solids and low temperature physics. Most recently, his research has focused on Bose--Einstein condensation and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. Mullin has authored 100 journal publications and 3 books and has been a visiting scientist for extended periods at the University of Sussex, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the
École normale supérieure, Paris.

Reviews

Like a good teacher, Mullin carefully builds the complexity of his topic gradually, all the while introducing the concepts and tools needed for each succeeding stage... Recommended.
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