Calculating with quanta: Quantum computer for the curious (essentials)

✍ Scribed by Beatrice Marie Ellerhoff

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 45
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This essential creates a lively and vivid understanding of the processes in quantum computers. It explores the quantum phenomena of entanglement and superposition and how they can be used for computing. Coding of information, explanation of simple algorithms, and possible applications are shown. A glossary at the end of the essentials explains the most important terms.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
What You Can Find in This essential
Contents
About the Author
1: Introduction
2: Quantum Revolution
2.1 Quantum Mechanics in Our Everyday Life
2.2 Towards Unimaginable Computing Power
3: The Basic Building Blocks of Quantum Computing
3.1 From Bits to Quantum Bits
3.2 Quantum Advantage Through Entanglement
3.3 Quantum Gates and Algorithms
4: Quantum Computing Today and Tomorrow
4.1 The Search for the Optimal Hardware
4.2 The Decoherence Problem
4.3 The Future of Quantum Computing
5: Summary
What You Learned from This essentials
Glossary
References