Quantum Computing

A Gentle Introduction

Book Details:

Publisher:	MIT Press
Series:	MIT Press
Author:	Eleanor Rieffel
Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0262015064
ISBN-13:	9780262015066

Pages:	392
Published:	Apr 01 2011
Posted:	Apr 17 2017
Language:	English
Book format:	PDF
Book size:	7.09 MB

Book Description:

The combination of two of the twentieth century's most influential and revolutionary scientific theories, information theory and quantum mechanics, gave rise to a radically new view of computing and information. Quantum information processing explores the implications of using quantum mechanics instead of classical mechanics to model information and its processing. Quantum computing is not about changing the physical substrate on which computation is done from classical to quantum but about changing the notion of computation itself, at the most basic level. The fundamental unit of computation is no longer the bit but the quantum bit or qubit. This comprehensive introduction to the field offers a thorough exposition of quantum computing and the underlying concepts of quantum physics, explaining all the relevant mathematics and offering numerous examples. With its careful development of concepts and thorough explanations, the book makes quantum computing accessible to students and professionals in mathematics, computer science, and engineering. A reader with no prior knowledge of quantum physics (but with sufficient knowledge of linear algebra) will be able to gain a fluent understanding by working through the book.

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