A short introduction to quantum information and quantum computation

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Le Bellac, Michel (autor)
Otros Autores: Forcrand-Millard, Patricia A. de (traductor)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
French
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2006
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • What is a qubit?
  • The polarization of light
  • Photon polarization
  • Mathematical formulation
  • Principles of quantum mechanics
  • Quantum cryptography
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Manipulating qubits
  • The Bloch sphere, spin 1/2
  • Dynamical evolution
  • Manipulating qubits : Rabi oscillations
  • Principles of NMR and MRI
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Quantum correlations
  • Two-qubit states
  • The state operator (or density operator)
  • The quantum no-cloning theorem
  • Decoherence
  • The Bell inequalities
  • Exercises
  • Further reading.
  • Introduction to quantum computing
  • General remarks
  • Reversible calculation
  • Quantum logic gates
  • The Deutsch algorithm
  • Generalization to n + m qubits
  • The Grover search algorithm
  • The quantum Fourier transform
  • The period of a function
  • Classical algorithms and quantum algorithms
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Physical realizations
  • NMR as a quantum computer
  • Trapped ions
  • Superconducting qubits
  • Quantum dots
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • Quantum information
  • Teleportation
  • Shannon entropy
  • von Neumann entropy
  • Quantum error correction
  • Exercises
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Index.