This volume provides a down-to-earth, easily understandable guide to techniques of matrix theory, which are widely used throughout engineering and the physical, life, and social sciences. Fully up-to-date, the book covers a wide range of topics, from basic matrix algebra to such advanced concepts as generalized inverses and Hadamard matrices, and applications to error-correcting codes, control theory, and linear programming. Results are illustrated with many examples drawn from diverse areas of application. Numerous exercises are included to clarify the material presented in the text, which...

This volume brings together research papers in the field of optical angular momentum. After an introductory section including two of the earliest references on the subject, the book goes on to cover spin and orbital angular momentum, laboratory beams carrying angular momentum and optical forces and torques on particles and atoms. The last two chapters are of particular relevance to current research as thet underpin the technique known as optical tweezing, which is finding application in fields as diverse as atom optics and biology. The remaining sections of the book include papers on...

Quantum information- the subject- is a new and exciting area of science, which brings together physics, information theory, computer science and mathematics. Quantum Information- the book- is based on two successful lecture courses given to advanced undergraduate and beginning postgraduate students in physics. The intention is to introduce readers at this level to the fundamental, but offer rather simple, ideas behind ground-breaking developments including quantum cryptography, teleportation and quantum computing. The text is necessarily rather mathematical in style, but the mathematics...