Venkateswaran Kasirajan - Theory and Practice

Figure 1.1

The splendor of the milky way galaxy.

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Figure 1.2

The Koh-I-Noor diamond

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Figure 1.3

Simplicity. Boats on blue water.

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Figure 1.4

Water evaporating as lava flows into the ocean.

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Figure 1.5

Lightning creating a plasma channel in the air

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Figure 1.6

The periodic table

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Figure 1.7

Picture of the Helium atom

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Figure 1.9

The standard model of elementary particles

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Figure 1.11

The blackbody radiation

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Figure 1.14

IBM System One

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Figure 1.16

Propagation of Electromagnetic waves

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Figure 1.17

Youngs double-slit experiment with a sandblaster gun with Slit 2 closed

Anuj Kumar

Figure 1.18

Setup with Slit 1 closed

Figure 1.19

Double-slit experiment with both the slits open

Figure 1.20

Expected behavior

Figure 1.21

Observed behavior

Figure 1.23

Electron build up over time

Anuj Kumar

Figure 1.24

Single Electron Beam Experiment

Figure 1.27

The Copenhagen Interpretation

Figure 1.31

The vortices of a type-II superconductor

Figure 3.1

Schrdingers cat

Figure 3.2

The cat dies, if the poison potion is broken

Figure 3.3

Schrdingers cat in a superposition state

Figure 3.6

The Stern and Gerlach Experiment

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Figure 4.8

Trapped ion qubit

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Figure 4.29

The quantum dot

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Figure 4.30

Energy band diagram of the heterostructure

Figure 4.31

Lateral quantum dot device

Figure 4.32

Schematic view of the quantum dot

Figure 4.33

Scanning microscope image of the quantum dot

Figure 4.34

Electron transitions

Figure 4.35

Schematic of the dilution fridge

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Figure 4.36

Phase diagram of mixture

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Figure 6.2

Alice and Bob communicating

Alice and Bob illustrated by Anuj Kumar

Figure 6.4

Type-I, Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion

Anuj Kumar