Ultimate Zero and One: Computing at the Quantum Frontier - Hardcover

Williams, Colin P.; Clearwater, Scott H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387947698 ISBN 13: 9780387947693

Publisher: Copernicus, 1999

Synopsis

As miniaturization deepens, and nanotechnology and its machines become more prevalent in the real world, the need to consider using quantum mechanical concepts to perform various tasks in computation increases. Such talks include: the teleporting of information, breaking heretofore "unbreakable" codes, communicating with messages that betray eavesdropping, and the generation of random munbers. To date, there has been no book written which applies quantum physics to the basic operations of a computer. This one does, thus presenting us with the ideal vehicle for explaining the complexities of quantum mechanics to students, researchers and computer engineers, alike, as they prepare to design and create the computing and information delivery systems for the future. Both authors have solid backgrounds in the subject matter at the theoretical and research level, as well as experience on a more practical plane. While also intended for use as a text for senior/grad level students in computer science/physics/engineering, this book has its primary use as an up-to-date reference work in the emerging interdisciplinary field of quantum computing. It does require knowledge of calculus and familiarity with the concept of the Turing machine.

About this title

About the Author

Colin Williams is a researcher in the Ultracomputing Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and on the faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.

Scott Clearwater is a consultant specializing in scientific and technical problem solving. Previously, he has worked at various laboratories in academia, government, and industry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Copernicus
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387947698
• ISBN 13: 9780387947693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264