Ultimate Zero and One : Computing at the Quantum Frontier - Colin P. Williams

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Ultimate Zero and One

Computing at the Quantum Frontier

By: Colin P. Williams, Scott H. Clearwater

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Hardcover | 22 October 1999

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As miniaturisation 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 tasks include: the teleporting of information, breaking heretofore "unbreakable" codes, communicating with messages that betray eavesdropping, and the generation of random numbers. This is the first book to apply quantum physics to the basic operations of a computer, representing 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 more practical level. While serving 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 - the only prerequisite being knowledge of calculus and familiarity with the concept of the Turing machine.

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Preface	p. xi
Computing at the Edge of Nature	p. 1
Rethinking Computers
Shrinking Technology
A Peek Into Quantumland
The Qubit: Ultimate Zero and One
Are Bits Driving Us Bankrupt?
An Overview of This Book
Quantum Computing	p. 23
Tricks of the Trade
Quantum Memory Registers
The prepare--evolve--measure Cycle
Quantum Gates and Quantum Circuits
Example of a Quantum Computation
Summary
What Can Computers Do?	p. 45
The Turing Machine
Quantum Turing Machines
Universality
Computability
Proving versus Providing Proof
Complexity
Searching a Quantum Phone Book
Breaking "Unbreakable" Codes	p. 89
The Art of Concealment
Encryption Schemes
Public Key Cryptography
Code Breaking on a Classical Computer
Code Breaking on a Quantum Computer
Example Trace of Shor's Algorithm
Summary
The Crapshoot Universe	p. 117
The Concept of Randomness
Uses of Random Numbers
Does Randomness Exist in Nature?
Pseudorandomness: The Art of Faking It
The Plague of Correlations
Randomness and Quantum Computers
The Keys to Quantum Secrets	p. 143
Some Underlying Concepts
Polarization
Quantum Cryptography with Polarized Photons
Working Prototypes
Other Approaches to Quantum Cryptography
Teleportation: The Ultimate Ticket to Ride	p. 157
Factorizable Quantum States
Entanglement: Non-factorizable States
Spooky Action at a Distance
Bell's Inequality
Locality: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Quantum Teleportation
Working Prototypes
Swatting Quantum Bugs	p. 173
Laissez-Faire
Error Correction
Fault-Tolerant Computing
Topological Quantum Computing
Generation-Q Computing: Where Do You Want to Go Tomorrow?	p. 191
Quantum Conditional Logic
Ion Traps
"Flying Qubit"--Based Quantum Computers
NMR
The Kane Mutiny
Summary
It Is Now Safe to Turn Off Your Quantum Computer	p. 217
Quantum Interferometry: It's All Done with Mirrors!
Quantum Bomb-Testing
Counterfactual Computing: Computing Without Computing
Epilogue: Quantum Technologies in the Twenty-First Century	p. 233
References	p. 237
Index	p. 247
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