Sketches of Physics

Foreword 1 - Lecture Notes in Physics: The Formative Years.- Foreword 2 - Lecture Notes in Physics: The Renaissance Years.- Preface.- Chapter 1 - A New Era of Quantum Materials Mastery and Quantum Simulators In and Out of Equilibrium.- Chapter 2 - Evaluation and Utility of Wilsonian Naturalness.- Chapter 3 - The Geometric Phase: Consequences in Classical and Quantum Physics.- Chapter 4.- The Coming Decades of Quantum Simulation.- Chapter 5 - Insights into Complex Functions.- Chapter 6 - Exploring the Hottest Atmosphere with the Parker Solar Probe.- Chapter 7 - A Primer on the Riemann Hypothesis.

Roberta Citro is Professor of theoretical matter physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Salerno (Italy). In recent years she has matured professional experience in many-body techniques of low-dimensional systems and in quantum transport in nanostructures. She has recently established a new research team/activity on quantum transport in low dimensional systems. She completed her PhD in Physics at the University of Salerno (Italy) in 1998 defending a thesis on high-temperature superconductors. After her graduation, she was, first, a Post Doc Fulbright fellow at the Physics Department of Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) where she collaborated with the Condensed Matter theory group, completing original works on the puzzling phase diagram of coupled spin chains by means of bosonizations and renormalization group methods. In 2007 she was a Marie Curie fellow under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme-Mobility Action at the Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés (LPMMC, CNRS) in Grenoble (FR) where she collaborated with Dr. Anna Minguzzi and Prof. Frank Hekking. Here, she acquired knowledge in the field of atomic and molecular systems, working on the problem of non-equilibrium dynamics of a Bose gas subjected to a time-dependent perturbation. She has an active synergetic activity (Member of the organizing committees of five international conferences on quantum gases and a national meeting in superconductivity, member of the Doctorate collegium, referee of the APS and IOP Journals, of Nature and of national/EU research projects).
Maciej Lewenstein is ICREA Research Professor and leads the quantum optics theory group at ICFO (the Institute of Photonic Sciences) in Castelldefels - Barcelona, Catalonia. He graduated at Warsaw University in 1978 and joined the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where he remained for 15 years, becoming a professor in 1993. He