The Joy of Quantum Computing
eBook - ePub

The Joy of Quantum Computing

A Concise Introduction

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eBook - ePub

The Joy of Quantum Computing

A Concise Introduction

About this book

An engaging and accessible presentation of the most famous algorithms and applications of quantum computing

The Joy of Quantum Computing introduces quantum computing succinctly, and with minimal mathematical formalism. Engagingly written—a feast for the reader’s inner nerd—it presents the most famous algorithms and applications of quantum computing and quantum information science, including the “killer apps,” Grover’s search algorithm, and Shor’s factoring algorithm. The only prerequisite is precalculus; readers need no knowledge of quantum physics. Matrices are relegated to the (completely optional) final two chapters. The book shows readers that quantum information science is about more than just high-speed calculations and data security. It is also about the fundamental meaning of quantum mechanics and the ultimate nature of reality.

The Joy of Quantum Computing is suitable for classroom use or independent study by questing autodidacts.

• Offers detailed explanations of quantum circuits, quantum algorithms, and quantum mysteries
• Explains how to apply quantum information science to cryptography (and how Shor’s algorithm menaces classical cryptography)
• Introduces the mystifying topics of quantum teleportation and the no-cloning theorem
• Discusses Bell inequalities, which permit experimental tests of philosophical assumptions
• Presents a simple model of quantum decoherence, shedding light on Schrödinger’s mysterious cat

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Preface: Almost Too Much Awesome
  8. 1. Forging the Quantum Key
  9. 2. The First Quantum Algorithm: “Collaboration between Parallel Universes”?
  10. 3. Qubit? Cube It
  11. 4. Quantum Teleportation: Too Awesome to Require a Pun
  12. 5. The No-Cloning Theorem: Why We Can’t Send Messages to the Past
  13. 6. A Nobel Prize in Experimental Philosophy
  14. 7. Quantum Adder: Like Regular Addition, but Way More Confusing
  15. 8. Grover’s Search: One Algorithm to Rule Them All, One Algorithm to Find Them
  16. 9. QFT and IQFT 
 WTF?
  17. 10. Quantum Phase Estimation: I Can Value Eigenvalues
  18. 11. The Farthest Shor: Breaking the Internet
  19. 12. How to Correct Those Flipping Errors
  20. 13. Enter the Matrix
  21. 14. Quantum Decoherence and the Infinitely More Than Nine Lives of Schrödinger’s Cat
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Appendix A. Further Reading
  24. Appendix B. Table of Quantum Gates
  25. Appendix C. Exercises
  26. Index