LEADER 00000cam a2200661Ia 4500 001 ocn656285377 003 OCoLC 005 20160527041642.6 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 100816s2010 enka ob 100 0 eng d 019 704516393|a922970073 020 9780191574443|q(electronic bk.) 020 0191574449|q(electronic bk.) 020 |z9780199574612 020 |z0199574618 035 (OCoLC)656285377|z(OCoLC)704516393|z(OCoLC)922970073 040 N$T|beng|epn|cN$T|dYDXCP|dOCLCQ|dE7B|dOCLCQ|dOCLCF|dNLGGC |dOCLCO|dOCL|dOCLCO|dEBLCP|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ 049 RIDW 050 4 QC174.7|b.E265 2008eb 072 7 SCI|x055000|2bisacsh 082 04 530.133|222 090 QC174.7|b.E265 2008eb 111 2 Ecole d'été de physique théorique (Les Houches, Haute- Savoie, France)|n(89th :|d2008) 245 10 Exact methods in low-dimensional statistical physics and quantum computing :|bÉcole d'été de physique des Houches, session LXXXIX, 30 June-1 August 2008, École thématique du CNRS /|cedited by Jesper Jacobsen [and others]. 246 14 Houches 2008 - session LXXXIX 260 Oxford :|bOxford University Press,|c©2010. 300 1 online resource (xxvi, 624 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 ""Contents""; ""List of participants""; ""PART I: LONG LECTURES""; ""1 Quantum impurity problems in condensed matter physics""; ""1.1 Quantum impurity problems and the renormalization group""; ""1.2 Multichannel Kondo model""; ""1.3 Quantum dots: Experimental realizations of one- and two-channel Kondo models""; ""1.4 Quantum impurity problems in Luttinger liquids""; ""1.5 Quantum impurity entanglement entropy""; ""1.6 Y-junctions of quantum wires""; ""1.7 Boundary-condition-changing operators and the X-ray edge singularity""; ""1.8 Conclusions""; ""References"" 505 8 ""2 Conformal field theory and statistical mechanics""""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Scale invariance and conformal invariance in critical behavior""; ""2.3 The role of the stress tensor""; ""2.4 Radial quantization and the Virasoro algebra""; ""2.5 CFT on the cylinder and torus""; ""2.6 Height models, loop models, and Coulomb gas methods""; ""2.7 Boundary conformal field theory""; ""2.8 Further reading""; ""3 The quantum Hall effect""; ""4 Topological phases and quantum computation""; ""4.1 Introduction: The quest for protected qubits"" 505 8 ""4.2 Topological phenomena in 1D: Boundary modes in the Majorana chain""""4.3 The two-dimensional toric code""; ""4.4 Abelian anyons and quasiparticle statistics""; ""4.5 The honeycomb lattice model""; ""References""; ""5 Four lectures on computational statistical physics""; ""5.1 Sampling""; ""5.2 Classical hard-sphere systems""; ""5.3 Quantum Monte Carlo simulations""; ""5.4 Spin systems: Samples and exact solutions""; ""References""; ""6 Loop models""; ""6.1 Historical perspective""; ""6.2 Brief summary of renormalization theory""; ""6.3 Loop models""; ""6.4 The Coulomb gas"" 505 8 ""6.5 Summary and perspective""""References""; ""7 Lectures on the integrability of the six-vertex model""; ""7.1 Introduction""; ""7.2 Classical integrable spin chains""; ""7.3 Quantization of local integrable spin chains""; ""7.4 The spectrum of transfer matrices""; ""7.5 The thermodynamic limit""; ""7.6 The six-vertex model""; ""7.7 The six-vertex model on a torus in the thermodynamic limit""; ""7.8 The six-vertex model at the free-fermionic point""; ""7.9 The free energy of the six-vertex model""; ""7.10 Some asymptotics of the free energy"" 505 8 ""7.11 The Legendre transform of the free energy""""7.12 The limit shape phenomenon""; ""7.13 Semiclassical limits""; ""7.14 The free-fermionic point and dimer models""; ""7.A Appendix""; ""References""; ""8 Mathematical aspects of 2D phase transitions""; ""PART II: SHORT LECTURES""; ""9 Numerical simulations of quantum statistical mechanical models""; ""9.1 Introduction""; ""9.2 A rapid survey of methods""; ""9.3 Path integral and related methods""; ""9.4 Classical worm algorithm""; ""9.5 Projection methods""; ""9.6 Valence bond projection method""; ""References"" 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Statistical physics|xMathematical models|vCongresses. 650 0 Quantum field theory|xMathematical models|vCongresses. 650 0 Quantum statistics|vCongresses. 650 0 Quantum computers|vCongresses. 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Conference papers and proceedings.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423772 700 1 Jacobsen, Jesper. 776 08 |iPrint version:|aEcole d'été de physique théorique (Les Houches, Haute-Savoie, France) (89th : 2008).|tExact methods in low-dimensional statistical physics and quantum computing.|dOxford : Oxford University Press, 2010 |z9780199574612|w(OCoLC)635494815 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=330474|zOnline eBook. 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