Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Bohr's Trilogy of 1913 -- Contents -- 1 Atomic Models Before Bohr -- 2 Summary of Bohr's Text: On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules (Part I) -- 3 The Impact of Bohr's Theory -- A Few Recommended Readings -- On the General History of Atomic Structure: -- On the 1913 Trilogy and Its Context: -- On the Later Evolution of Quantum Theory: -- On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules -- Introduction -- Part I: Binding of Electrons by Positive Nuclei -- 1. General Considerations -- 2. Emission of Line-Spectra -- 3. General Considerations Continued -- 4. Absorption of Radiation -- 5. The Permanent State of an Atomic System -- Keeping Things Open -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Courage -- 3 Philosophical Outlook -- 4 The Art of Being Wrong -- 5 Raw Power -- 6 Ability to Think Concretely -- 7 Family -- 8 Keeping Things Open -- References -- The Mind that Created the Bohr Atom -- Contents -- 1 A Partial Inventory of Bohr's Mind, 20 July 1912 -- 1.1 Concerning Himself -- 1.2 Concerning Physics -- 1.3 Concerning Culture -- 2 Transitions: August 1912-February 1913 -- 2.1 New Stimuli -- 2.2 Outcomes -- 3 Reflections -- 3.1 Reprise -- 3.2 Creativity -- Works Cited -- Bohr's Legacy in Cavity QED -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Tools of Microwave CQED -- 2.1 Circular Rydberg Atoms: The Bohr Model Revived -- 2.2 Superconducting Millimetre-Wave Cavities -- A Harmonic Oscillator -- Coherent States -- Cat States -- Field Relaxation -- Pictorial Representations of Field States -- 2.3 The Jaynes and Cummings Interaction -- 3 The Quantum Jumps of Light -- 3.1 Birth, Life and Death of Individual Photons -- 3.2 Quantum Non Demolition Photon Counting -- 3.3 Quantum Trajectories -- 3.4 Quantum Feedback: Combating the Jumps -- 4 Bohr's Complementarity and the Schrödinger Cat. , 4.1 Atomic Interferometry and ``Which-Path'' Information -- 4.2 A Cat in a Box -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- From Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger to Bell and Feynman: A New Quantum Revolution? -- Contents -- 1 The First Quantum Revolution: From Concepts to Technology -- 2 The Einstein-Bohr Debate -- 2.1 The First Bohr-Einstein Debate: Single Particle Quantum Mechanics -- 2.2 The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paper [8] -- 2.3 Schrödinger's Reaction [9] -- 2.4 Bohr's Rebuttal [10] -- 3 Bohm's Version of the EPR Reasoning -- 3.1 Bohm's Gedankenexperiment with Photons -- 3.2 EPR Reasoning with Photons -- 3.3 Discussion -- 3.4 Correlations: General Case -- 4 How to Complete Quantum Mechanics? Supplementary Parameters -- 4.1 What Is Suggested by the Quantum Formalism Is Weird -- 4.2 Supplementary Parameters -- 5 Bell's Inequalities -- 5.1 Formalism -- 5.2 A (Naive) Example of Supplementary Parameters Theory -- 5.3 Bell's Inequalities -- 6 Conflict with Quantum Mechanics -- 6.1 Evidence of a Conflict -- 6.2 Discussion: The Locality Condition -- 6.3 A Gedankenexperiment with Variable Analyzers: Bell's Locality as a Consequence of Relativistic Causality -- 7 Experimental Tests -- 7.1 From the Gedankenexperiment to Realistic Experiments with Entangled Photons: A Short History -- 7.2 Loophole-Free Tests -- 8 The Emergence of Quantum Information -- 8.1 Quantum Cryptography -- 8.2 Quantum Computing -- 8.3 Quantum Simulation -- 9 The Bohr-Einstein Discussion: Visionary -- References -- Interacting Cold Rydberg Atoms: A Toy Many-Body System -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Rydberg Atoms and Their Interactions -- 2.1 Rydberg Atoms -- 2.2 Interactions Between Rydberg Atoms -- 2.3 Early Experiments -- 3 Rydberg Blockade and Many-Body Physics: Theoretical Aspects -- 4 Observation of the Rydberg Blockade and Collective Excitation of Two Atoms. , 4.1 Individual Atoms in Optical Dipole Traps -- 4.2 Observation of the Blockade: The University of Wisconsin Experiment [15] -- 4.3 Observation of the Collective Excitation: The Institutd'Optique Experiment [17] -- 4.4 Measurement of the Interaction Energy Between Two Atoms [19] -- 5 Rydberg Blockade in Atomic Ensembles -- 5.1 Rydberg Blockade in Cold Atomic Clouds -- 5.2 Spatially Resolved Observation of the Blockade [24] -- 6 Application of the Rydberg Blockade to Quantum Information Processingwith Photons -- 6.1 Non-linearity at the Single Photon Level -- 6.2 Single-Photon Source and Photon Storage -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Bohr's Complementarity and Kant's Epistemology -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Kant's and Bohr's `Copernican' Turns -- 3 The `Agency of Measurement' and the Cut -- 4 The `Measured Object' and Complementarity -- 5 Classical Concepts: A Remnant of Kant's a Priori? -- 6 Conclusion -- References.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- 1 Unveiling the quantum -- 1.1 One century of quantum physics -- 1.2 Emergence of the microscopic world -- 1.3 Thought experiments coming of age -- 1.4 Aims and outline of this book -- 2 Strangeness and power of the quantum -- 2.1 The superposition principle and the wave function -- 2.2 Quantum interference and complementarity -- 2.3 Identical particles -- 2.4 Entanglement and non-locality -- 2.5 The quantum-classical boundary -- 2.6 Taming the quantum to process information -- 3 Of spins and springs -- 3.1 The field oscillator -- 3.2 Coupled field modes -- 3.3 The spin system -- 3.4 Coupling a spin and a spring: the Jaynes-Cummings model -- 4 The environment is watching -- 4.1 Quantum description of open systems -- 4.2 Quantum maps: the Kraus sum representation -- 4.3 The Lindblad master equation -- 4.4 Quantum Monte Carlo trajectories -- 4.5 Damped spin-spring system: from Rabi to Purcell -- 4.6 Kicking a spring with spins: the micromaser -- 4.7 Collective coupling of N spins to a spring: superradiance -- 5 Photons in a box -- 5.1 A short history of cavity QED -- 5.2 Giant atom in a cavity: an ideal cavity QED situation -- 5.3 Two experiments unveiling the quantum in a cavity -- 5.4 An atom-photon entangling machine -- 6 Seeing light in subtle ways -- 6.1 Complementarity at quantum-classical boundary -- 6.2 Non-destructive photon number measurement -- 6.3 A quantum gate for multi-particle entanglement engineering -- 6.4 The quantum analogue/digital converter -- 6.5 Photon number parity and Wigner function measurements -- 7 Taming Schrödinger's cat -- 7.1 Representations of photonic cats -- 7.2 A thought experiment to generate optical cats -- 7.3 Dispersive cats in cavity QED -- 7.4 Resonant cats in cavity QED -- 7.5 Decoherence of cavity cats -- 7.6 Non-local cats -- 8 Atoms in a box -- 8.1 Ion trap physics. , 8.2 Engineering ionic states of motion -- 8.3 Ion relaxation and engineered environments -- 8.4 Quantum logic with trapped ions: individual qubit addressing -- 8.5 Quantum logic with trapped ions: collective qubit addressing -- 8.6 Perspectives of ion traps for quantum information -- 9 Entangling matter waves -- 9.1 Second quantization of matter waves -- 9.2 Main features of Bose-Einstein condensation -- 9.3 The phase in Bose-Einstein condensate interference -- 9.4 Coherent collisions and cat-state generation -- 9.5 Matter waves in periodical lattices -- 9.6 Entangling collisions in a Bose-Einstein condensate -- 10 Conclusion -- Appendix -- A.1 Characteristic functions -- A.2 The Wigner distribution -- A.3 The Husimi-Q distribution -- A.4 Phase-space representations of relaxation -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

Note: Front Cover -- Quantum Entanglement and Information Processing: Intrication Quantique Et Traitement De L'Information -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Lecturers -- Participants -- Preface -- Course 1. Principles of quantum computation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fundamentals: quantum mechanics and computer science -- 3. Quantum circuits -- 4. Entanglement as a physical resource -- 5. Information theory -- 6. Open quantum systems -- 7. Quantum error correction and fault tolerance -- References -- Course 2. Mesoscopic state superpositions and decoherence in quantum optics -- 1. An overview of quantum optics -- 2. Beam splitters and interferences in quantum optics -- 3. Schrödinger cats in cavity QED -- 4. Collapse and revivals of matter-waves: proposals for atomic Schrödinger cats -- 5. Conclusion: a brief comparison with other mesoscopic state superpositions in quantum optics -- References -- Course 3. Cavity quantum electrodynamics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Microwave CQED experiments: The strong coupling regime -- 3. "Quantum logic" operations based on the vacuum Rabi oscillation -- 4. Step by step synthesis of a three particles entangled state -- 5. Direct atom-atom entanglement: cavity-assisted collision -- 6. Conclusion and perspectives -- References -- Course 4. Quantum optical implementation of quantum information processing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Trapped ions -- 3. Atoms in optical lattices -- 4. Quantum information processing with atomic ensembles -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Course 5. Quantum information processing in ion traps I -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ion trap quantum computer- the concept -- 3. Physics of ion traps -- 4. Coherent manipulation of quantum information -- 5. Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm -- 6. Cirac-Zoller CNOT-gate operation -- 7. Entanglement and Bell state generation -- 8. Summary and perspectives -- References. , Course 6. Quantum information processing in ion traps II -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linear RF (Paul) ion traps -- 3. Ion qubits -- 4. Stimulated Raman transitions -- 5. Multiple modes, multiple excited states -- References -- Course 7. Quantum cryptography with and without entanglement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Intuitions -- 3. Experiments: a lesson in applied physics -- 4. Security -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Course 8. Quantum cryptography: from one to many photons -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Single photons sources for quantum cryptography -- 3. Quantum key distribution using gaussian-modulated coherent states -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Course 9. Entangled photons and quantum communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Distributing quantum entanglement -- 3. Quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping -- 4. Purification of entanglement -- 5. Quantum entanglement and information -- References -- Course 10. Nuclear magnetic resonance quantum computation -- 1. Nuclear magnetic resonance -- 2. NMR and quantum logic gates -- 3. NMR quantum computers -- 4. Robust logic gates -- 5. An NMR miscellany -- 6. Summary -- Appendix A. Commutators and product operators -- References -- Course 11. Introduction to quantum conductors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The scattering approach to quantum conduction -- 3. Electronic quantum noise -- 4. Quasi-particle entanglement in ballistics conductors -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Course 12. Superconducting qubits -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic features of quantum integrated circuits -- 3. The simplest quantum circuit -- 4. The Josephson non-linear inductance -- 5. The quantum isolated Josephson junction -- 6. Why three basic types of Josephson qubits? -- 7. Qubit relaxation and decoherence -- 8. Readout of superconducting qubits -- 9. Coupling superconducting qubits. , 10. Can coherence be improved with better materials? -- 11. Concluding remarks and perspectives -- 12. Appendix 1: Quantum circuit theory -- 13. Appendix 2: Eigenenergies and eigenfunctions of the Cooper pair box -- 14. Appendix 3: Relaxation and decoherence rates for a qubit -- References -- Course 13. Superconducting qubits and the physics of Josephson junctions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The nonlinear Josephson inductance -- 3. Phase, flux, and charge qubits -- 4. BCS theory and the superconducting state -- 5. The Josephson effect, derived from perturbation theory -- 6. The Josephson effect, derived from quasiparticle bound states -- 7. Generation of quasiparticles from nonadiabatic transitions -- 8. Quasiparticle bound states and qubit coherence -- 9. Summary -- References -- Course 14. Josephson quantum bits based on a Cooper pair box -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Cooper pair box -- 3. The Cooper pair box as a quantum bit -- 4. Decoherence of Josephson charge qubits -- 5. Two-qubit-gates with capacitively coupled Cooper pair boxes -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Course 15. Quantum tunnelling of magnetization in molecular nanomagnets -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Giant spin model for nanomagnets -- 3. Quantum dynamics of a dimer of nanomagnets -- 4. Environmental decoherence effects in nanomagnets -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Course 16. Prospects for strong cavity quantum electrodynamics with superconducting circuits -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brief review of cavity QED -- 3. Circuit implementation of cavity QED -- 4. Zero detuning -- 5. Large detuning: lifetime enhancement -- 6. Dispersive QND readout of qubit -- 7. Resonator as quantum bus: entanglement of multiple qubits -- 8. Summary and conclusions -- References.

Note: Intro -- À propos de Collection XIX -- Dédicace -- Titre -- PRÉFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PREMIÈRE PARTIE -- I - ÉVOLUTION SIDERALE -- II - EVOLUTION ORGANIQUE -- III - ÉVOLUTION INTELLECTUELLE -- IV - EVOLUTION SOCIALE -- DEUXIÈME PARTIE -- I - DE LA FIXITÉ DES ESPÈCES -- II - TRANSFORMISME ET PHILOSOPHIE -- RÉSUMÉ ET CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDICE -- COSMOGRAPHIE GÉNÉRALE -- CHAPITRE PREMIER (INTRODUCTION) -- CHAPITRE DEUXIÈME -- CHAPITRE TROISIÈME (COURS) -- CHAPITRE QUATRIÈME -- CHAPITRE CINQUIÈME -- CHAPITRE SIXIÈME -- CHAPITRE SEPTIÈME -- Note au lecteur -- Page de titre de l'édition imprimée -- Copyright.