Ramamurti Shankar, recently appointed as the J.W. Gibbs Professor of Physics, focuses his research on theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum field theory. Early in his career, Shankar ...

The introductory physics video lectures by Shankar, a renowned Yale physicist and educator, have been viewed over a million times. In this expanded version of his second book based on his online ...

We propose a new model of quantum computation comprised of low-weight measurement sequences that simultaneously encode logical information, enable error correction ...