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Ultimate zero and one : computing at the quantum frontier
- Title
- Ultimate zero and one : computing at the quantum frontier / Colin P. Williams, Scott H. Clearwater.
- Author
- Williams, Colin P.
- Publication
- New York : Copernicus, [2000], ©2000.
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- Publisher description
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- Additional Authors
- Clearwater, Scott H.
- Description
- xiv, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Computing at the Edge of Nature -- Rethinking Computers -- Shrinking Technology -- A Peek Into Quantumland -- The Qubit: Ultimate Zero and One -- Are Bits Driving Us Bankrupt? -- Quantum Computing -- Tricks of the Trade -- Quantum Memory Registers -- The prepare--evolve--measure Cycle -- Quantum Gates and Quantum Circuits -- Example of a Quantum Computation -- What Can Computers Do? -- The Turing Machine -- Quantum Turing Machines -- Universality -- Computability -- Proving versus Providing Proof -- Complexity -- Searching a Quantum Phone Book -- Breaking "Unbreakable" Codes -- The Art of Concealment -- Encryption Schemes -- Public Key Cryptography -- Code Breaking on a Classical Computer -- Code Breaking on a Quantum Computer -- Example Trace of Shor's Algorithm -- The Crapshoot Universe -- The Concept of Randomness -- Uses of Random Numbers -- Does Randomness Exist in Nature? -- Pseudorandomness: The Art of Faking It -- The Plague of Correlations -- Randomness and Quantum Computers -- The Keys to Quantum Secrets -- Some Underlying Concepts -- Polarization -- Quantum Cryptography with Polarized Photons -- Working Prototypes -- Other Approaches to Quantum Cryptography -- Teleportation: The Ultimate Ticket to Ride -- Factorizable Quantum States -- Entanglement: Non-factorizable States -- Spooky Action at a Distance -- Bell's Inequality -- Locality: For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Quantum Teleportation -- Swatting Quantum Bugs -- Laissez-Faire -- Error Correction -- Fault-Tolerant Computing -- Topological Quantum Computing.
- ISBN
- 0387947698
- 9780387947693
- LCCN
- 98042595
- 9780387947693
- OCLC
- ocm39733447
- 39733447
- SCSB-5842658
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries