Lecturer:   Doron Cohen

• EPR  paradox and Bell inequalities (week 1)
  
• The probability matrix (week 2)
  
• Wigner function (week 3)
  
• Quantum measurements (weeks 4-5)
  
• Entanglement and entropy (week 6)
  
• Quantum Computation (7-9)
• Linear response theory, Kubo formula (week 10)
  
• Adiabatic processes, Berry phase (week 11)
  
• Born-Oppenheimer picture (week 12)
  
• Dissipation and Decoherence (week 12)
  
• Optional: Landauer and Quantum Pumping.
• Optional: Master equations.
• Optional: Feynman-Vernon Formalism.
• Optional: The spin boson model.
• Optional: RMT and banded matrices
  

• Lectures in Quantum Mechanics
• Lectures in Statistical Mechanics and Mesoscopics
• L.E.Ballentine, Quantum Mechanics (library code: QC 174.12.B35)
• M.A. Nielsen and I.L.Chuang, Quantum Computation (library code: QA 76.889.N54)

• Thursday 10:10-12:00, building 72 room 122
  

• "Pass" requires submission of a signed declaration. 
  
• Each student has to contribute 3 questions as in the example.