Quantum Computing and Communications by Michael Brooks
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.Michael Brooks has a PhD in quantum physics and is the author of the bestselling 13 Things That Don't Make Reason. He works as a physics and cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine and is a journalist and broadcaster. His writing has featured in several national newspapers, including the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, and the Times Higher Education, and he has given talks at Cambridge University, the American Museum of Natural History, and New York University. He resides in the East Sussex town of Lewes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852330910 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852330910 |
| Title | Quantum Computing and Communications |
| Author | Michael Brooks |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer London Ltd |
| Year published | 1999-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 152 |
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