Twenty-First Century Quantum Mechanics: Hilbert Space to Quantum Computers

Guido Fano graduated magna cum laude in Physics at the University of Rome in 1955 and earned university degrees in Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Methods of Physics. He taught at several universities, including Naples, Ferrara, Bologna, and Marseille, and progressed from being an assistant lecturer to senior lecturer and, finally, Professor of Mathematical Methods of Physics. Professor Fano is a specialist in the quantum many-body problem, with particular emphasis on the mathematical aspects. He is the author of about 60 publications in international journals as well as several textbooks. He is responsible for some particularly significant results concerning the existence problem for the time-dependent Hartree-Fock equations, the use of non-orthogonal orbitals in Quantum Chemistry, and the asymptotic behavior of the Taylor expansion coefficients of some sequences of polynomials.

1 Twentieth Century Quantum Mechanics.- 2 Mathematical Methods in Quantum Mechanics.- 3 The Schroedinger Equation.- 4 New Adventures: Isotropic Vectors, Rotations, Spinors and Groups.- 5 Quantum Entanglement and Bell's Theorem.-  6 Digital and Quantum Computers.-  Bibliography.

"I agree with the authors that this is the excellent introductory book for non-specialists to quantum theory, though I would recommend it to all curious researchers whose perception of the world that surrounds us raises the questions of what, why and how is out there?" (Eugene Kryachko, zbMATH 1377.81005, 2018)

“I agree with the authors that this is the excellent introductory book for non-specialists to quantum theory, though I would recommend it to all curious researchers whose perception of the world that surrounds us raises the questions of what, why and how is out there?” (Eugene Kryachko, zbMATH 1377.81005, 2018)