Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction

by Eleanor Rieffel and Wolfgang H. Polak

Book Overview

The combination of two of the twentieth century's most influential and revolutionary scientific theories, information theory and quantum mechanics, gave rise to a radically new view of computing and information. Quantum information processing explores the implications of using quantum mechanics instead of classical mechanics to model information and its processing. Quantum computing is not about changing the physical substrate on which computation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262015064
• ISBN13: 9780262015066
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher