Schrödinger's web : race to build the quantum internet /: race to build the quantum internet. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan P. Dowling.
• Authors: Dowling, Jonathan P
• Contents: Contents Preface, xiii Foreword, xv Author, xxi CHAPTER 1 ■ Many Hands Make Light Work 1 THE DARKENED ROOM 2 NEWTON’S BULLETS 5 WAVES OF HUYGENS’ – PTOOEY! 11 OUT – DAMNED SPOT! 12 THE JOURNEY STONE 20 FRANKLIN, FROGS, AND FRANKENSTEIN 22 ØRSTED UNLODES 23 ELECTRIC BOY REWINDS 26 ALL’S WELL THAT’S MAXWELL 31 FIAT LUX! 34 WATT IS LOVE? DON’T HERTZ ME, NO MORSE! 38 MARCONI AND CHUTZPAH 39 MAXWELL’S RAINBOW 40 CHAPTER 2 ■ What Light Through Yonder Window – Breaks? 43 THE END OF PHYSICS? 44 PLANCKING FOR BEGINNERS 51 ONE PHOTON, INDIVISIBLE, WITH QUANTA OF ENERGY, IN BALLS 56 IT’S A WAVE! IT’S A PARTICLE! IT’S – WHAT THE HECK IS IT!? 60 QUANTUM NONDEMOLITION DERBY 68 VAIDMAN – DUDE’S THE BOMB! 73 THE UNDETECTABLE QUANTUM TRIPWIRE 76 EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CLOUDS 79 TO COMPUTE OR NOT TO COMPUTE – WHAT IS THE QUESTION? 82 EINSTEIN’S BUBBLE – TOIL AND TROUBLE 83 PARTICULARS OF POLARIZED PHOTONS 87 CHAPTER 3 ■ It Takes Two to Tangle 91 SCHRÖDINGER’S CURSE 92 EINSTEIN’S BANE 94 VON NEUMANN’S BLUNDER 99 BOHM’S BOMBSHELL 101 BELL GETS TESTY 103 BERTLMANN’S SOCKS 108 CLAUSER’S NO-BELL PRIZE 108 CLOSING THE LOOPHOLES 112 TWO’S COMPANY – BUT THREE’S A CLOUD 115 SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE 118 CHAPTER 4 ■ Quantum Networks: The Building Blocks 121 SINGLE-PHOTON GUNS 122 QUANTUM-DOT SINGLE-PHOTON GUNS 122 SORT-OF-SINGLE-PHOTON GUNS AND MAGIC CHINESE CRYSTALS 125 PSEUDO-SINGLE-PHOTON GUNS 129 ENTANGLED-PHOTON GUNS 132 QUANTUM-DOT ENTANGLED-PHOTON GUNS 132 ENTANGLED SORT-OF-PHOTON GUNS AND MAGIC CHINESE CRYSTALS 134 I SPY, WITH MY LITTLE EYE 138 E. T. PHONE HOME 141 POLARIZE! LET NO PHOTON EVADE YOUR EYES! 146 RARE AS A TWO-DOLLAR BELL 149 CHAPTER 5 ■ The Second Quantum Revolution 151 WHAT IS QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY? 152 QUANTUM RANDOM-NUMBER GENERATORS 154 CRYPTOGRAPHY 158 CLASSICAL CRYPTOGRAPHY – RSA PUBLIC-KEY ENCRYPTION 159 CLASSICAL CRYPTOGRAPHY – ONE-TIME-PAD PRIVATE-KEY ENCRYPTION 162 QUANTUM MONEY – WIESNER’S UNPUBLISHABLE PAPER 172 QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY – THE BENNETT AND BRASSARD 1984 PROTOCOL 175 QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY – THE EKERT 1991 PROTOCOL 182 POST-QUANTUM-CRYPTOGRAPHY – OFF-RAMP ON THE QUANTUM INTERNET 185 QUANTUM TELEPORTATION 187 ENTANGLEMENT SWAPPING 194 QUANTUM MEMORIES 196 CLASSICAL REPEATERS 198 QUANTUM REPEATERS 201 QUANTUM TRANSPONDERS 205 CHAPTER 6 ■ Quantum Networks 207 THE QUANTUM INTERNET – WHY NOW? 208 WHAT’S UP WITH QUANTUM COMPUTERS THESE DAYS? 210 QUANTUM SUPREMACY 213 DOUBLE-BUBBLE – TOIL AND TROUBLE! 215 A CHINESE QUANTUM-SPUTNIK MOMENT 219 NATIONAL QUANTUM INITIATIVE ACT 222 QUANTUM INTERNET 1.0 – ALL THAT IT’S CRACKED UP TO BE? 228 QUANTUM INTERNET 2.0 – RAGE OF ENTANGLEMENT 230 QUANTUM INTERNET 3.0 – RISE OF THE UBIQUITOUS QUANTUM REPEATERS 238 I HAVE A CODE IN MY NODE! 245 TELEPORTATION AND DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM COMPUTING 247 CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION OVER THE QUANTUM NETWORK 251 CHAPTER 7 ■ Networks of Quantum Sensors 255 QUANTUM SENSORS 256 COHERENT SENSOR ARRAYS 261 CLOCKS IN SPACE 270 DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM SENSORS 273 EPILOGUE, 281 INDEX, 285
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 006.3843; Quantum computing; Quantum theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000080230; 9781000080179; 9781000080209; 9780367337629
• Related ISBNs: 9780367337612; 9780367322311
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