A Short Course in Quantum Information Theory An Approach From Theoretical Physics /

• Main Author: Diosi, Lajos (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 827
• Subjects: Physics.; Computers.; Information theory.; Quantum physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Theory of Computation.; Information and Communication, Circuits.

This short and concise primer takes the vantage point of theoretical physics and the unity of physics. It sets out to strip the burgeoning field of quantum information science to its basics by linking it to universal concepts in physics. An extensive lecture rather than a comprehensive textbook, thi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Foundations of Classical Physics
• Semiclassical -Semi-q-physics
• Foundations of q-physics
• Two-state q-system: Qubit Representations
• One-qubit Manipulaitons
• Composite q-system, Pure State
• All q-operations
• Classical Information Theory
• Q-Information Theory
• Q-computation
• Qubit Thermodyanmics
• Appendix
• Solutions
• References
• Index.