Ultimate Zero and One: Computing at the Quantum Frontier

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Springer Science & Business Media, Oct 22, 1999 - Computers - 250 pages
As miniaturization deepens, and nanotechnology and its machines become more prevalent in the real world, the need to consider using quantum mechanical concepts to perform various tasks in computation increases. Such talks include: the teleporting of information, breaking heretofore "unbreakable" codes, communicating with messages that betray eavesdropping, and the generation of random munbers. To date, there has been no book written which applies quantum physics to the basic operations of a computer. This one does, thus presenting us with the ideal vehicle for explaining the complexities of quantum mechanics to students, researchers and computer engineers, alike, as they prepare to design and create the computing and information delivery systems for the future. Both authors have solid backgrounds in the subject matter at the theoretical and research level, as well as experience on a more practical plane. While also intended for use as a text for senior/grad level students in computer science/physics/engineering, this book has its primary use as an up-to-date reference work in the emerging interdisciplinary field of quantum computing. It does require knowledge of calculus and familiarity with the concept of the Turing machine.
 

Contents

Computing at the Edge of Nature
1
Quantum Computing
23
What Can Computers Do?
45
Breaking Unbreakable Codes
89
The Crapshoot Universe
117
The Keys to Quantum Secrets
143
Teleportation The Ultimate Ticket to Ride
157
Swatting Quantum Bugs
173
GenerationQ Computing Where Do You Want to Go Tomorrow?
191
It Is Now Safe to Turn Off Your Quantum Computer
217
Quantum Technologies in the TwentyFirst Century
233
References
237
Index
247
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