Quantum Computing and Communications

by Michael Brooks (Editor)

The first handbook to provide a comprehensive inter-disciplinary overview of QCC. It includes peer-reviewed definitions of key terms such as Quantum Logic Gates, Error Correction, Quantum Dots, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Quantum Holography, and Quantum Cryptography. There are also reports on major application areas, principles of QCC, and targets, benchmarks and challenges, making this an invaluable buy for any university department with this exciting new topic in its curriculum. It equally provides a unique overview of a fast-moving and multidisciplinary topic for researchers, students, lecturers, and even the interested amateur.

152 pages, Paperback

First published May 21, 1999

About the author

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Michael Edward Brooks is an English science writer, noted for explaining complex scientific research and findings to the general population. Brooks holds a PhD in Quantum Physics from the University of Sussex. He was previously an editor for New Scientist magazine, and currently works as a consultant for that magazine. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, The Times Higher Education Supplement. His first novel, Entanglement, was published in 2007. His first non-fiction book, an exploration of scientific anomalies entitled 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, was published in 2009. Brooks' next book, The Big Questions: Physics, was released in February 2010. It contains twenty 3,000-word essays addressing the most fundamental and frequently asked questions about science.

Reviews

[Shrey · Rating 1 out of 5]

So it does a reasonable job explaining some of the easier concepts. But, I could have gotten that from Wikipedia. Every time the author hits some of the trickier concepts, he tends to resort to hand-waving and black-boxing. But it is the trickier stuff that actually makes this field interesting, and I'm still looking for a technical, but understandable explanation for the following:
1. If qubits are coupled shouldn't they always exhibit joint properties? In other words, how do a coupled pair of 0 and 1 qubits turn into 1 and 1 (instead of 1 and 0, or 0|1 and 1|0) - wouldn't that imply decoupling?
2. How do we pick the "desired" answer, from the set of superpositioned states?

Some of the diagrams had misprints which confused the hell out of me. And a lot of this book is filler written by "other people".

Meh. Perhaps folks on goodreads can answer my questions.

[Mostafa Ragab · Rating 4 out of 5]

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