Quantum Phase Transitions in Transverse Field Spin Models : From Statistical Physics to Quantum Information (Hardcover)

List of tables; 1. Quantum phase transitions; 2. Information theoretic measures close to a quantum critical point; 3. Non-equilibrium dynamics across quantum critical points; 4. Transverse Ising models in higher dimensions; 5. Transverse field models in one dimension; 6. Quantum phase transitions in related models; 7. Role of quenched disorder; 8. Related models with frustration; 9. Quantum information theoretic measures: transverse field and related models; 10. Non-equilibrium dynamics across quantum critical points: slow quenching; 11. Further studies on non-equilibrium dynamics; 12. Quenching and quantum information; 13. Some very recent developments in information and dynamics; 14. Experimental realisations of transverse field Ising systems; 15. Adiabatic quantum computations and transverse field models; 16. Concluding comments; Appendices; Notes; References; Index.