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Hoi-Kwong Lo, Sandu Popescu, Timothy P. Spiller, eds.
Introduction to Quantum Computation and Information.
World Scientific. 1998

This book aims to provide a pedagogical introduction to the subjects of quantum information and computation. Topics include non-locality of quantum mechanics, quantum computation, quantum cryptography, quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computation as well as some experimental aspects of quantum computation and quantum cryptography. Only knowledge of basic quantum mechanics is assumed. Whenever more advanced concepts and techniques are used, they are introduced carefully. This book is meant to be a seif-contained overview. While basic concepts are discussed in detail, unnecessary technical details are excluded. It is well-suited for a wide audience ranging from physics graduate students to advanced researchers.

This book is based on a lecture series held at Hewlett Packard Labs, Basic Research Institute in the Mathematical Sciences (BRiMS), Bristol from November 1996 to April 1997, but it also includes other contributions.

Contents

Timothy P. Spiller. Basic elements of Quantum Information Theory. 1998
Sandu Popescu, Daniel Rohrlich. The joy of entanglement. 1998
Richard Jozsa. Quantum Information and its properties. 1998
Hoi-Kwong Lo. Quantum cryptology. 1998
Hugo Zbinden. Experimental quantum cryptography. 1998
Andriano Barenco. Quantum computation: an introduction. 1998
Andrew M. Steane. Quantum error correction. 1998
John Preskill. Fault-tolerant quantum computation. 1998
Thomas Pellizzari. Quantum computers, error-correction and networking: quantum optical approaches. 1998
Isaac L. Chuang. Quantum computation with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. 1998
Charles H. Bennett. Future directions for Quantum Information Theory. 1998