Introduction to Quantum Information Science

• Main Authors: Hayashi, Masahito (Author), Ishizaka, Satoshi (Author), Kawachi, Akinori (Author), Kimura, Gen (Author), Ogawa, Tomohiro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Data structures (Computer science).; Information theory.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Computing.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Information and Communication, Circuits.

This book presents the basics of quantum information, e.g., foundation of quantum theory, quantum algorithms, quantum entanglement, quantum entropies, quantum coding, quantum error correction and quantum cryptography. The required knowledge is only elementary calculus and linear algebra. This way th...

Table of Contents:

• Invitation to Quantum Information Science
• Quantum Mechanics for Qubit Systems
• Foundations of Quantum Computing
• Quantum Algorithm
• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory
• Information Quantities in Quantum Systems
• Quantum Entanglement
• Classical-Quantum Channel Coding
• Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Cryptography.