Quantum Machines : Measurement and Control of Engineered Quantum Systems
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2014
Series: Book 6 of 21 - Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School
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Co-authored by Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 award laureate, Michel H. Devoret. The Nobel Prize was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.The laureates used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand. Their superconducting electrical system could tunnel from one state to another, as if it were passing straight through a wall. They also showed that the system absorbed and emitted energy in doses of specific sizes, just as predicted by quantum mechanics. Near fine with minimal traces of use to the covers only. No dust jacket as issued. First impression. 7" - 10¼".
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- Title
- Quantum Machines : Measurement and Control of Engineered Quantum Systems
- Author
- Devoret, Michel; Huard, Benjamin; Schoelkopf, Robert; Cugliandolo, Leticia F. (edts)
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Near fine
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 019968118X
- ISBN 13
- 9780199681181
- Edition
- First edition.
- Printing
- First impression
- Dimensions
- 7" - 10¼"
- Series
- Book 6 of 21: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School
What is a quantum machine? Can we say that lasers and transistors are quantum machines? After all, physicists advertise these devices as the two main spin-offs of the understanding of quantum mechanical phenomena. However, while quantum mechanics must be used to predict the wavelength of a laser and the operation voltage of a transistor, it does not intervene at the level of the signals processed by these systems. Signals involve macroscopic collective variables like voltages and currents in a circuit or the amplitude of the oscillating electric field in an electromagnetic cavity resonator. In a true quantum machine, the signal collective variables, which both inform the outside on the state of the machine and receive controlling instructions, must themselves be treated as quantum operators, just as the position of the electron in a hydrogen atom. Quantum superconducting circuits, quantum dots, and quantum nanomechanical resonators satisfy the definition of quantum machines. These mesoscopic systems exhibit a few collective dynamical variables, whose fluctuations are well in the quantum regime and whose measurement is essentially limited in precision by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Other engineered quantum systems based on natural, rather than artificial degrees of freedom can also qualify as quantum machines: trapped ions, single Rydberg atoms in superconducting cavities, and lattices of ultracold atoms. This book provides the basic knowledge needed to understand and investigate the physics of these novel systems.
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About the Author
Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, Paris, France
; Benjamin Huard:
Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
; Robert Schoelkopf:
Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
; Leticia F. Cugliandolo:
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, Paris, France
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