Quantum Computing Without Magic Devices

This text offers an introduction to quantum computing, with a special emphasis on basic quantum physics, experiment, and quantum devices. Unlike many other texts, which tend to emphasize algorithms, Quantum Computing without Magic explains the requisite quantum physics in some depth, and then explai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Meglicki, Zdzislaw
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, MA MIT Press 2008
The MIT Press
Edition1
SeriesScientific and Engineering Computation
Subjects
Computer Science
Computing and Processing
Quantum computers
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Bits and Registers -- 2 The Qubit -- 3 Quaternions -- 4 The Unitary Formalism -- 5 The Biqubit -- 6 The Controlled not Gate -- 7 Yes, It Can Be Done with Cogwheels -- A Quaternions and Pauli Matrices -- B Biqubit Probability Matrices -- C Tensor Products of Pauli Matrices -- References -- Index