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Exact Methods in Low-Dimensional Statistical Physics and Quantum Computing: Lecture Notes from the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 89, July 2008

23 February 2011

By Jesper Jacobsen, Stephane Ouvry, Vincent Pasquier, Didina Serban and Leticia Cugliandolo (eds.)

Oxford University Press

Hardback: £45 $85

9780199574612

Recent years have shown spectacular convergences between traditional techniques in theoretical physics and methods emerging from modern mathematics, such as combinatorics, topology and algebraic geometry. These techniques, and in particular those of low-dimensional statistical models, are instrumental in improving the understanding of emerging fields, such as quantum computing and cryptography, complex systems, and quantum fluids. This book sets these issues into a larger and more coherent theoretical context than is currently available, through lectures given by international leaders in the fields of exactly solvable models in low-dimensional condensed matter and statistical physics.

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