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Quantum Computing and Communications

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Michael Brooks
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  • The first comprehensive overview of the state-of-the art
  • Contains definitions of all terms used in teaching, researching and learning QCC
  • Quantum computers are widely believed to be feasible within the next 20-30 years

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. A Wide Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Michael Brooks
      Pages 3-7

    3. The Fundamentals of Quantum Information

      • Michael Brooks
      Pages 9-15

    4. Quantum Computer Science

      • Michael Brooks
      Pages 17-25

    5. Experimental Realizations

      • Michael Brooks
      Pages 27-31

    6. Optical Technologies for Quantum Computing and Communications

      • Michael Brooks
      Pages 33-42

    7. Applications

      • Michael Brooks
      Pages 43-47

    8. A Note on the Question of Scaling: Decoherence and Error Correction

      • Michael Brooks
      Pages 49-50

  3. Personal Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Solid State Quantum Computation: Prospects, Proposals, and Prejudices

      • Bruce Kane
      Pages 53-57

    3. Information is Physical, But Slippery

      • Rolf Landauer
      Pages 59-62

    4. Nanocircuitry, Defect Tolerance and Quantum Computing: Architectural and Manufacturing Considerations

      • R. Stanley Williams
      Pages 63-69

    5. Quantum Computing and NMR

      • Jonathan A. Jones
      Pages 71-78

    6. Quantum Networks and Quantum Algorithms

      • Vlatko Vedral
      Pages 79-85

    7. Quantum Cryptography

      • Richard J. Hughes
      Pages 87-93

  4. A Perspective for the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Realizing the Potential of Quantum Information Processing

      • Michael Brooks
      Pages 97-101

    3. The Role of Europe

      • Michael Brooks
      Pages 103-106

    4. Quantum Computing and Communications: A View from the USA

      • Colin P. Williams
      Pages 107-114
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We have, in the last few years, radically improved our grasp of the quantum world. Not just intellectually, either: our ability to manipulate real quantum systems has grown in equal measure with our understanding of their fundamental behavior. These two shoots - the intellectual and the practical harnessing of the quantum world - have sprung up at a time when a third shoot - information processing - has also been experiencing explosive growth. These three shoots are now becoming intertwined. Twisted together, our understanding of information processing, quantum theory and practical quantum control make for a strong new growth with enormous potential. One must always be careful about using the word 'revolutionary' too readily. It is, however, difficult to find another word to describe the developments that have been taking place during the second half of the 1990s. In 1986 Richard Feynman, the visionary professor of physics, made a very interesting remark: " ... we are going to be even more ridiculous later and consider bits written on one atom instead of the present 1011 atoms. Such nonsense is very entertaining to professors like me." It is exceptionally unfortunate that Feynman did not live to see this 'nonsense' fully transformed into reality. He, more than anybody, would enjoy the fact that it is now possible to write information onto an atom, or indeed an ion or a photon.

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