Introduction to quantum physics and information processing. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Radhika Vathsan.
• Authors: Vathsan, Radhika
• Contents: Preliminaries; Introduction; Bits and Qubits; Properties of Qubits; Practical Considerations; References for Further Reading A Simple Quantum System; The Stern–Gerlach Experiment; Quantum State: Basis States; An Experiment to Illustrate Superpositions; Interference and Complex Amplitudes Theoretical Framework; The Essentials of Quantum Mechanics; The State Space; Observables; Measurement; Evolution; Composite Systems; Properties of Qubits; The Bloch Sphere Representation of a Qubit; Cloning and Deleting; Distinguishability of Qubit States; Entanglement Mixed States, Open Systems, and the Density Operator; The Density Operator; Quantum Mechanics with Density Operators; Composite Systems Computation Models and Computational Complexity; Computability and Models for Computation; The Circuit Model and Universal Gates; Reversible Computation; Resources and Computational Complexity Quantum Computation; Quantum Gates and Circuits; Single Qubit Gates; Multi-Qubit Gates; Quantum Function Evaluation; Universal Quantum Gates; Comments on Measurement Quantum Algorithms; The Deutsch Algorithm; The Bernstein–Vazirani Algorithm; Simon’s Algorithm; Quantum Fourier Transform and Applications; Definition of the QFT from Discrete Fourier Transform; Grover’s Search Algorithm Quantum Information; Information and Communication; Entanglement as a Resource; Quantum Dense Coding; Quantum Cryptography; Quantum Key Distribution; Information Reconciliation and Privacy Amplification Quantum Error Correction; 3-Qubit Repetition Code for Bit Flips; Phase Flip Code; 9-Qubit Shor Code; Discretization of Quantum Errors; The 5-Qubit Code; The 7-Qubit Code Characterization of Quantum Information; Measures of Information; The Von Neumann Entropy; Distance Measures; Entanglement Measures
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 006.3843; Quantum computing
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482238129
• Related ISBNs: 9781482238112
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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