"...a blend of erudition (fascinating and sometimes obscure historical minutiae abound), popularization (mathematical rigor is relegated to appendices) and exposition (the reader need have little knowledge of the fields involved) ...and the illustrations include many superb examples of computer graphics that are works of art in their own right." Nature

The Fractal Geometry of Nature

Part I. Fundamental Concepts: 1. Introduction and overview 2. Introduction to quantum mechanics 3. Introduction to computer science Part II. Quantum Computation: 4. Quantum circuits 5. The quantum Fourier transform and its application 6. Quantum search algorithms 7. Quantum computers: physical realization Part III. Quantum Information: 8. Quantum noise and quantum operations 9. Distance measures for quantum information 10. Quantum error-correction 11. Entropy and information 12. Quantum information theory Appendices References Index.

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

We present an analysis of the performances of a parameter free density functional model (PBE0) obtained combining the so called PBE generalized gradient functional with a predefined amount of exact exchange. The results obtained for structural, thermodynamic, kinetic and spectroscopic (magnetic, infrared and electronic) properties are satisfactory and not far from those delivered by the most reliable functionals including heavy parameterization. The way in which the functional is derived and the lack of empirical parameters fitted to specific properties make the PBE0 model a widely applicable method for both quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics.

Toward reliable density functional methods without adjustable parameters: The PBE0 model

Deposits of clastic carbonate-dominated (calciclastic) sedimentary slope systems in the rock record have been identified mostly as linearly-consistent carbonate apron deposits, even though most ancient clastic carbonate slope deposits fit the submarine fan systems better. Calciclastic submarine fans are consequently rarely described and are poorly understood. Subsequently, very little is known especially in mud-dominated calciclastic submarine fan systems. Presented in this study are a sedimentological core and petrographic characterisation of samples from eleven boreholes from the Lower Carboniferous of Bowland Basin (Northwest England) that reveals a >250 m thick calciturbidite complex deposited in a calciclastic submarine fan setting. Seven facies are recognised from core and thin section characterisation and are grouped into three carbonate turbidite sequences. They include: 1) Calciturbidites, comprising mostly of highto low-density, wavy-laminated bioclast-rich facies; 2) low-density densite mudstones which are characterised by planar laminated and unlaminated muddominated facies; and 3) Calcidebrites which are muddy or hyper-concentrated debrisflow deposits occurring as poorly-sorted, chaotic, mud-supported floatstones. These

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This paper reviews recent experimental and theoretical progress concerning many-body phenomena in dilute, ultracold gases. It focuses on effects beyond standard weak-coupling descriptions, such as the Mott-Hubbard transition in optical lattices, strongly interacting gases in one and two dimensions, or lowest-Landau-level physics in quasi-two-dimensional gases in fast rotation. Strong correlations in fermionic gases are discussed in optical lattices or near-Feshbach resonances in the BCS-BEC crossover.

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Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases

Two soluble models of an antiferromagnetic chain

A gas of one-dimensional Bose particles interacting via a repulsive delta-function potential has been solved exactly. All the eigenfunctions can be found explicitly and the energies are given by the solutions of a transcendental equation. The problem has one nontrivial coupling constant, γ. When γ is small, Bogoliubov’s perturbation theory is seen to be valid. In this paper, we explicitly calculate the ground-state energy as a function of γ and show that it is analytic for all γ, except γ=0. In Part II, we discuss the excitation spectrum and show that it is most convenient to regard it as a double spectrum—not one as is ordinarily supposed.

Exact analysis of an interacting bose gas. i. the general solution and the ground state

The short-range, one-band model for electron correlations in a narrow energy band is solved exactly in the one-dimensional case. The ground-state energy, wave function, and the chemical potentials are obtained, and it is found that the ground state exhibits no conductor-insulator transition as the correlation strength is increased.

Absence of Mott Transition in an Exact Solution of the Short-Range, One-Band Model in One Dimension

We show that if f n is a sequence of uniformly L p-bounded functions on a measure space, and if f n → f pointwise a.e., then lim for all 0 < p < ∞. This result is also generalized in Theorem 2 to some functional other than the L p norm, namely → 0 for suitable j: C → C and a suitable sequence f n. A brief discussion is given of the usefulness of this result in variational problems.

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A relation between pointwise convergence of functions and convergence of functionals

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Elliott H. Lieb

Papers

Two soluble models of an antiferromagnetic chain

Exact analysis of an interacting bose gas. i. the general solution and the ground state

Absence of Mott Transition in an Exact Solution of the Short-Range, One-Band Model in One Dimension

A relation between pointwise convergence of functions and convergence of functionals

Analysis, Second edition