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Quantum Computing: From Alice to Bob
Author(s): Alice Flarend (Author), Robert Hilborn (Author)
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publication Date: 15 April 2022
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 0192857983
- ISBN-13: 9780192857989
Book Description
While broadly accessible, the textbook does not dodge providing a solid conceptual and formal understanding of quantum states and entanglement – the key ingredients in quantum computing. The authors dish up a hearty meal for the readers, disentangling and explaining many of the classic quantum algorithms that demonstrate how and when QC has an advantage over classical computers. The book is spiced with
Try Its, brief exercises that engage the readers in problem solving (both with and without mathematics) and help them digest the many counter-intuitive quantum information science and quantum computing concepts.Editorial Reviews
Review
This is a refreshing, pedagogical, and timely overview of quantum computing for non-experts, by two well-qualified authors. ―
Shimon Kolkowitz, University of Wisconsin-MadisonThis is a much needed bridge between popular and technical texts that provides easy access to the topic of quantum computing for curious readers who aim to go further and deeper in their understanding.
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Dieter Jaksch, University of OxfordThe reader gets to avoid the complexity of technical quantum-computing books, yet gets more depth and rigor than in the popular writing on the topic…the book is written in a very conversational rather than academic tone. ―
Bogdan Hoanca, University of Alaska AnchorageAbout the Author
Dr Hilborn received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard in 1971. He served as a physics faculty member at Oberlin, Amherst, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of Texas at Dallas. He has had many decades experience doing quantum physics research in atomic, molecular, and optical physics and teaching quantum mechanics to undergraduate students. He is author of
Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (OUP 1994, 2000). He is currently the Associate Executive Officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers and principal investigator for several nation-wide physics education projects funded by the National Science Foundation.
