Explorations in quantum computing. Incl. 1 CD-ROM

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Quantum computing is an exciting, new field that revolutionizes the way in which we think about performing computations. The book by Colin P. Williams and Scott. H. Clearwater gives a summary of results obtained so far in the field of quantum computing. It consists of 11 Chapters in which it touches all aspects of quantum computing without going too much into detail, such as: basic complexity theory (Chapter 2), basic concepts in quantum mechanics (Chapter 3), basic quantum computing models (Chapters 2 and 3) and how to simulate a simple model (Chapter 4), the effect of imperfections on quantum computations (Chapter 5) and how to correct errors (Chapter 10), quantum cryptography (Chapters 6 and 8), quantum teleportation (Chapter 9), and the realization of quantum gates and quantum computers (Chapter 11). The book further contains a CD-ROM with software (written in the Mathematica programming language) that allows users to perform their own quantum computations. This enables a non-specialist in this field to understand what quantum computing is about and how realistic it is. The only drawback of the book is that it is not completely self-contained. Chapter 3 partly requires the reader to have some basic knowledge in quantum physics. Otherwise some aspects might be difficult to understand. ``Explorations in quantum computing is the first book on quantum computing. A short survey of quantum computing can also be found, for instance, in [\textit{A. Berthiaume}, ``Quantum computation, in: L. A. Hemaspaandra et al. (eds.), Complexity theory retrospective II. Proceedings of the 10th annual IEEE conference on Structure in complexity theory. Minneapolis, MN, USA. June 19--22, 1995. New York, NY: Springer. 23--51 (1997; Zbl 0880.68034)].




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