Quantum information in gravitational fields /

One of the major scientific thrusts in recent years has been to try to harness quantum phenomena to increase dramatically the performance of a wide variety of classical information processing devices. In particular, it is generally accepted that quantum computers and communication systems promise to...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lanzagorta, Marco (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2014]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 1.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Quantum computers.
Quantum communication.
Quantum Physics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Biography
  • Introduction
  • Quantum information
  • Quantum communications
  • Quantum computing
  • Quantum sensors
  • Relativistic quantum information
  • Summary
  • Special and general relativity
  • Special relativity
  • Lorentz transformations
  • Lagrangian dynamics
  • The principle of equivalence
  • The principle of general covariance
  • The Hamilton-Jacobi equations
  • Einstein's field equations
  • Principles of conservation
  • Killing vectors
  • Tetrad fields
  • Spin in general relativity
  • The spin-curvature coupling
  • Summary
  • Relativistic quantum fields
  • The Schrödinger equation
  • The Klein-Gordon equation
  • Scalar quantum fields
  • The quantum Poincare transformations
  • Wigner rotations
  • The Dirac equation
  • Dirac quantum fields
  • Group representations in quantum field theory
  • Representations of quantum fields with arbitrary spin
  • The quantum vacuum in flat spacetime
  • Summary
  • Quantum information in inertial frames
  • Qubit transformations
  • Relativistic dynamics
  • Steganographic quantum channel
  • The teleportation channel
  • Spread momentum states
  • Summary
  • Quantum fields in curved spacetimes
  • Scalar fields in curved spacetime
  • Quantum dynamics in general relativity
  • The quantum vacuum in a gravitational field
  • The spin-statistics connection
  • Quantum vector fields in curved spacetime
  • Spinors in curved spacetimes
  • Covariant derivative for fields of arbitrary spin
  • Spinor dynamics with tetrad fields
  • Dirac spinors in curved spacetime
  • The spin-curvature coupling
  • Summary
  • Qubits in Schwarzschild spacetime
  • Metric tensor
  • Structure of Schwarzschild spacetime
  • Tetrad fields and connection one-forms
  • Geodesics
  • Quantum dynamics
  • Wigner rotations
  • Radiation damping
  • Summary
  • Spin-curvature coupling in Schwarzschild spacetime
  • Spinor components
  • Constant spinors in spherical coordinates
  • The Lemaitre tetrad
  • Radial fall
  • The co-moving tetrad field
  • General motion in the equatorial plane
  • Circular orbits
  • Non-geodetic motion
  • Wigner rotations
  • Summary
  • Qubits in Kerr spacetime
  • The metric tensor
  • Structure of Kerr spacetime
  • Tetrad fields and connection one-forms
  • Geodesics
  • Quantum dynamics
  • Wigner rotations
  • Summary
  • Quantum information processing in curved spacetimes
  • Unitary qubit transformations
  • Qubit states
  • Quantum communications
  • Quantum teleportation
  • EPR experiments
  • Quantum computation
  • Gravity-induced entanglement
  • Quantum sensing and gravimetry
  • Summary
  • Conclusions
  • Classical information in classical gravitational fields
  • Quantum information in classical gravitational fields
  • Quantum information in quantum gravitational fields
  • Summary.

Ejemplares similares