Instructor: Josh Deutsch 209 ISB

Office Hours: Thursday 2:00-4:00 PM

Books, lecture notes, and papers

"Statistical Physics'' Richard Feynman.

Quantum Computing:

John Preskill's lecture notes on quantum computing and other resources can be found on his course website

Other links to useful notes on quantum computing can be found on Peter Shor's website

Extra notes. on path integration (and other interesting things) by Pierre van Baal.

Article by David G. Cory, Amr F. Fahmy and Timothy F. Havel on how NMR can be used to perform quantum computing.

Quantum Dissipation:

Caldeira and Leggett PRL on quantum dissipation.

Callan and Coleman: Fate of the false vacuum.

Pattern Formation:

J.S. Langer: Instabilities and pattern formation in crystal growth.

Brower, Kessler, Koplik, and Levine, the Geometrical Model.

Velocity selection in this model.

Analytic approach to this by Langer.

Analytical treatment of the full model.

A.J. Bray: Phase Ordering Kinetics

List of topics (tentative)

Introduction to quantum computing, quantum dissipation, quantum chaos, random matrices. Phonons, semiconductors, PN junctions, and pattern formation.