Revised edition of: Lasers and their application to the observation of Bose-Einstein condensates."Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Lasers. 1. The basic physics of lasers -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Optical spectra -- 1.3. Stimulated emission -- 1.4. Creating a population inversion -- 1.5. Laser modes and coherence2. Conventional lasers -- 2.1. In…
"Version: 20240601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / F.J. Duarte -- 2. Organic laser dyes / F.J. Duarte -- 3. Energetics of organic laser dyes / F.J. Duarte -- 4. Polymer matrices for lasers / F.J. Duarte and K.M. Vaeth -- 5. Cavity and resonator architectures for high-performance organic laser oscillators / F.J. Duarte -- 6. Mathematical-physics for tunab…
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Highly efficient materials for photonic crystal-based optical components / M. Soroosh, F. Parandin, F. Haddadan, M.J. Maleki and F. Bagheri -- 2. Unidirectional bulk growth of 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene single crystal and doping effect on its optical properties / Narayanan Durairaj, Sakthivel Raja, Sridharan Moorthi Babu, …
"Version: 20231001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Appendix A. Physics scaling of particle ring accelerators -- Appendix B. Computer codes.1. Space charge and other physics at the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) -- 1.1. UMER lattice and injection -- 1.2. Emittance, space charge and betatron tune shifts -- 1.3. Closed orbit -- 1.4. Betatron resonances and space…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The basics of laser safety. 1. Why are laser accidents still happening? / Ken Barat -- 2. Classification: a means of hazard communication / Ken Barat -- 3. Biological effects: something you should know about / Ken Barat -- 4. Laser safety terms: the language LSOs speak / Ken Barat -- 5. Risk assessment for lasers …
"Version: 202303"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The fundamentals. 1. Linear programming -- 1.1. The basics -- 1.2. Geometric interpretation -- 1.3. Duality -- 1.4. Slack variables -- 1.5. Weak and strong duality -- 1.6. Concluding remarks -- 1.7. Advanced topics -- 1.8. Further reading2. Semidefinite programming -- 2.1. Primal semidefinite programs -- 2.2. Dualit…
"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Functionals and classical mechanics -- 1.2. The operator formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Operator identities -- 1.4. Grassmann variables -- 1.5. Gaussian integrals -- 1.6. Poisson resummation2. The quantum mechanical path integral -- 2.1. The infinitesimal transition element -- 2.2. The b…
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Motivation and scope -- 1.2. The promise of quantum machine learning -- 1.3. Quantum computing : a refresher -- 1.4. Machine learning foundations -- 1.5. Types of quantum machine learning2. Quantum information processing -- 2.1. Quantum computing -- 2.2. Dirac notation -- 2.3. Bloch sphere -- 2.4. …
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Theory and software. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Topical introduction : from quantum metrology to a generalised bootstrapping protocol -- 1.2. Context and aims for Volume 3 : Analysis methodologies2. Quantum metrology software platform/ecosystem overview -- 2.1. Analysis components -- 2.2. Additional tools -- 2.3. Py…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Obscure qubits and membership amplitudes -- 1.1. Preliminaries -- 1.2. Membership amplitudes -- 1.3. Transformations of obscure qubits -- 1.4. Kronecker obscure qubits -- 1.5. Obscure-quantum measurement -- 1.6. Kronecker obscure-quantum gates -- 1.7. Double entanglement -- 1.8. Conclusions2. Higher braid quantum gates…