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This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of quantum
thermodynamics, with particular focus on its relation to quantum
information and its implications for quantum computers and next
generation quantum technologies. The text, aimed at graduate level
physics students with a working knowledge of quantum mechanics and
statistical physics, provides a brief overview of the development
of classical thermodynamics and its quantum formulation in Chapter
1. Chapter 2 then explores typical thermodynamic settings, such as
cycles and work extraction protocols, when the working material is
genuinely quantum. Finally, Chapter 3 explores the thermodynamics
of quantum information processing and introduces the reader to some
more state of-the-art topics in this exciting and rapidly
developing research field.
During my tenure with the Marine Corps Air Wing, and later, I often
thought of what would have been the outcome, if during the Vietnam
War, Marines fighter pilots were afforded the opportunity of air to
air engagements as they were during World War I and II and the
Korean War. Had that opportunity been realized, Marines may have
very well been the first air Aces of the war. The Vietnam War had
an impact that fueled the political revolution of the nineteen
sixties and impacted our world of today. Those who made such an
impact were those so affectionately referred to as the "baby
boomers." Some of these were men in their early twenties were
taught to fly state of the art fighter aircraft and deliver bombs,
rockets and napalm on the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong enemy.
None more so than pilots and Flight officers of the United States
Marine Corps Air Wing. I often recall a quote from President Ronald
Reagan as he described Marines during a speech in 1985. "Some
people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a
difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
In 1833, a young, lightning-scarred oak tree grows near a village
of Potawatomi Indians, the Neshnabek. Here, Watseka and her family
must fight to save themselves from the onslaught of white migration
and disease in the Little Woods. But the mandates of the Indian
Removal Act of 1830 and the atrocities of the Black Hawk War of
1832 serve to undermine the Neshnabek's bargaining position as they
relinquish their legacy through the Treaty of Chicago and prepare
for their removal to the west. That same venerable oak stands in
twenty-first-century St. Charles, Illinois, and bears witness to
violence, despair, and hope in the McCallum family's fight to
surmount turmoil inflicted by the encroaching world. When her job
is outsourced to Venezuela, Marilyn McCallum falls into clinical
depression. Her husband, Lloyd, sinks into the compulsion of
illegal sports betting after his profession is supplanted by a
superabundance of Chinese engineers. But with adversaries and
allies emerging from surprising places, the McCallums must come to
quick terms with their new reality. The fate of these two
culturally diverse families living in different eras of Illinois
history merge in Little Woods, a gripping tale of globalization's
disturbing effect on life in the present and the past that offers a
sobering view of our future.
This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of quantum
thermodynamics, with particular focus on its relation to quantum
information and its implications for quantum computers and next
generation quantum technologies. The text, aimed at graduate level
physics students with a working knowledge of quantum mechanics and
statistical physics, provides a brief overview of the development
of classical thermodynamics and its quantum formulation in Chapter
1. Chapter 2 then explores typical thermodynamic settings, such as
cycles and work extraction protocols, when the working material is
genuinely quantum. Finally, Chapter 3 explores the thermodynamics
of quantum information processing and introduces the reader to some
more state of-the-art topics in this exciting and rapidly
developing research field.
During my tenure with the Marine Corps Air Wing, and later, I often
thought of what would have been the outcome, if during the Vietnam
War, Marines fighter pilots were afforded the opportunity of air to
air engagements as they were during World War I and II and the
Korean War. Had that opportunity been realized, Marines may have
very well been the first air Aces of the war. The Vietnam War had
an impact that fueled the political revolution of the nineteen
sixties and impacted our world of today. Those who made such an
impact were those so affectionately referred to as the "baby
boomers." Some of these were men in their early twenties were
taught to fly state of the art fighter aircraft and deliver bombs,
rockets and napalm on the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong enemy.
None more so than pilots and Flight officers of the United States
Marine Corps Air Wing. I often recall a quote from President Ronald
Reagan as he described Marines during a speech in 1985. "Some
people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a
difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
In 1833, a young, lightning-scarred oak tree grows near a village
of Potawatomi Indians, the Neshnabek. Here, Watseka and her family
must fight to save themselves from the onslaught of white migration
and disease in the Little Woods. But the mandates of the Indian
Removal Act of 1830 and the atrocities of the Black Hawk War of
1832 serve to undermine the Neshnabek's bargaining position as they
relinquish their legacy through the Treaty of Chicago and prepare
for their removal to the west. That same venerable oak stands in
twenty-first-century St. Charles, Illinois, and bears witness to
violence, despair, and hope in the McCallum family's fight to
surmount turmoil inflicted by the encroaching world. When her job
is outsourced to Venezuela, Marilyn McCallum falls into clinical
depression. Her husband, Lloyd, sinks into the compulsion of
illegal sports betting after his profession is supplanted by a
superabundance of Chinese engineers. But with adversaries and
allies emerging from surprising places, the McCallums must come to
quick terms with their new reality. The fate of these two
culturally diverse families living in different eras of Illinois
history merge in Little Woods, a gripping tale of globalization's
disturbing effect on life in the present and the past that offers a
sobering view of our future.
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