1999 PB Quantum Computing and Communications by Brooks, Michael

Brooks, Michael [Editor]

ISBN 10: 1852330910 / ISBN 13: 9781852330910

Published by Springer, 1999

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Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is verygood. Binding is tight/good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 1999 PB Quantum Computing and Communications by Brooks, Michael
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852330910
• ISBN 13: 9781852330910
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 16 ounces

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Synopsis

We have, in the last few years, radically improved our grasp of the quantum world. Not just intellectually, either: our ability to manipulate real quantum systems has grown in equal measure with our understanding of their fundamental behavior. These two shoots - the intellectual and the practical harnessing of the quantum world - have sprung up at a time when a third shoot - information processing - has also been experiencing explosive growth. These three shoots are now becoming intertwined. Twisted together, our understanding of information processing, quantum theory and practical quantum control make for a strong new growth with enormous potential. One must always be careful about using the word 'revolutionary' too readily. It is, however, difficult to find another word to describe the developments that have been taking place during the second half of the 1990s. In 1986 Richard Feynman, the visionary professor of physics, made a very interesting remark: " ... we are going to be even more ridiculous later and consider bits written on one atom instead of the present 1011 atoms. Such nonsense is very entertaining to professors like me." It is exceptionally unfortunate that Feynman did not live to see this 'nonsense' fully transformed into reality. He, more than anybody, would enjoy the fact that it is now possible to write information onto an atom, or indeed an ion or a photon.