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Description

The first handbook to provide a comprehensive inter-disciplinary overview of QCC. It includes peer-reviewed definitions of key terms such as Quantum Logic Gates, Error Correction, Quantum Dots, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Quantum Holography, and Quantum Cryptography. There are also reports on major application areas, principles of QCC, and targets, benchmarks and challenges, making this an invaluable buy for any university department with this exciting new topic in its curriculum. It equally provides a unique overview of a fast-moving and multidisciplinary topic for researchers, students, lecturers, and even the interested amateur.

Contents

Introduction.- Fundamentals of Quantum Information.- Quantum Computer Science.- Experimental Realizations.- Technologies from QCC.- Applications.- A Note on the Question of Scaling.- Quantum Information Processing.- Nanocircuitry, Defect Tolerance and QC.- Information is Physical, but Slippery.- Quantum Cryptography.- Solid State Quantum Computation.- Quantum Networks and Quantum Algorithms.- Quantum Computing and NMR.- The Potential of Quantum Information Processing.- The Role of Europe.- QCC - A View from the USA.- The Pathfinder Project.- Categories and Definitions.- A Preliminary QIP Roadmap.

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