Exact Methods in Low-dimensional Statistical Physics and Quantum Computing
Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 89, July 2008
Edited by Jesper Jacobsen, Stephane Ouvry, Vincent Pasquier, Didina Serban, and Leticia Cugliandolo
Table of Contents
LECTURES
1. Quantum impurity problems in condensed matter physics, I. Affleck
2. Conformal field theory and statistical mechanics, J. Cardy
3. Quantum Hall effect, D. Haldane
4. Topological quantum phases and quantum computation, A. Kitaev
5. Four lectures on computational statistical physics, W. Krauth
6. Loop models, B. Nienhuis
7. Lectures on the integrability of the 6-vertex model, N. Reshetikhin
8. Mathematical aspects of 2D phase transitions, W. Werner
9. Numerical simulations of quantum statistical mechanics models, F. Alet
10. Rapidly rotating atomic Bose gases, N. Cooper
11. Quantum Hall effect, J. Frohlich
12. The dimer model, R. Kenyon
13. Boundary loop models and 2D quantum gravity, I. Kostov
14. Real-space condensation in stochastic mass transport models, S. Majumdar
15. Quantum spin liquids, G. Misguich
16. Super spin chains and super sigma models: a short introduction, H. Saleur
17. Integrability and combinatorics: selected topics, P. Zinn-Justin
SEMINARS
18. A rigorous perspective on Liouville quantum gravity and KPZ, B. Duplantier
19. Topologically protected qubits based on Josepshon junction arrays, M. Feigelman
20. On some quantum Hall states with negative flux, T. Jolicoeur
21. Supersolidity and what soluble models can tell us about it, D. Thouless
