scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1110626
Here is a thoroughly modern introduction into the dynamics of digital excitation at the circuit-level, field-level, and quantum-level. Much effort is devoted to the classical gate-field as well as the quantum gate-field. Indeed, with the plethora of model-building possibilities in switching-circuit theory, this reviewer expects a sharpened intuition for all sorts of quantum processing activities. The author even probes one of the mysteries of digital excitation and processing, viz., metastability. At present, it is not known how metastability and metastable operation affect quantum processing, say, for one of the proposed (quantum) Feynman Processors, although it is known to have adverse effects on high-speed distributed processors. We might ``twist our logical design slightly to use metastability as a positive feature of circuit switching or quantum switching rather than as a limiting or negative feature. After all, e.g., the existence of metastable states at the quantum level of matter makes laser action possible in spite of the negative features of metastable states at the intuitive level. The monograph presents a broad spectrum of cogent topics: e.g., the vector-gate field, CMOS inverter switching, the Miller Effect, an eigenvalue problem in the gate field, probabilistic logic, Fermion and Boson circuit models, metastability, tunnel effect of digital excitation, Bohr's Correspondence Principle (but not Pauli's Exclusion Principle), macrodynamics of digital excitation, and an FET model and simulator. A truly comprehensive range of interesting topics! Although the author's approach to digital-circuit theory is not standard (yet), it contains a rich domain of problems and solutions that deserve the careful attention of applied mathematicians and physicists and switching-circuits engineers, if we are ever to create a working quantum processor.
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