Quantum Computing Without Magic: Devices (Scientific and Engineering Computation) by Zdzislaw Meglicki | (PDF) Free Download

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How quantum computing is really done: a primer for future quantum device engineers.This text offers an introduction to quantum computing, with a special emphasis on basic quantum physics, experiment, and quantum devices. Unlike many other texts, which tend to emphasize algorithms, Quantum Computing Without Magic explains the requisite quantum physics in some depth, and then explains the devices themselves. It is a book for readers who, having already encountered quantum algorithms, may ask, “Yes, I can see how the algebra does the trick, but how can we actually do it?” By explaining the details in the context of the topics covered, this book strips the subject of the “magic” with which it is so often cloaked. Quantum Computing Without Magic covers the essential probability calculus; the qubit, its physics, manipulation and measurement, and how it can be implemented using superconducting electronics; quaternions and density operator formalism; unitary formalism and its application to Berry phase manipulation; the biqubit, the mysteries of entanglement, nonlocality, separability, biqubit classification, and the Schroedinger’s Cat paradox; the controlled-NOT gate, its applications and implementations; and classical analogs of quantum devices and quantum processes. Quantum Computing Without Magic can be used as a complementary text for physics and electronic engineering undergraduates studying quantum computing and basic quantum mechanics, or as an introduction and guide for electronic engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, or scholars in these fields who are interested in quantum computing and how it might fit into their research programs.

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Editorial Reviews: Review Quantum Computing without Magic gives a refreshing and down to earth approach to quantum information as well as quantum devices which will have a fundamental impact on the technology of the 21st century.―Raymond Laflamme, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information, and Director, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo About the Author Zdzislaw Meglicki, who holds doctorates in electronic engineering and physics, is Senior Technical Advisor to the Office of Vice President for Information Technology at Indiana University.

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⭐Many useful technical details. Though their main quantum computing implementation idea looks useless for me. Much deeper physics is necessary.

⭐Quantum mechanics is universally considered weird (magic). The author tries to eliminate the weirdness utilizing a non standard (hidden variables) finite quantum theory (the formalism of Lucien Hardy). It is possible e.g. to eliminate complex numbers: a ket of n length is substituded by a real vector of length nxn).The book is not an introduction to quantum computers or to their physical realization.

⭐This book is one of several recent ones about the topic of quantum computation. Writing such a book is a challenge, as it cannot avoid explaining relevant mathematics, and quantum theory. Meglicki does very well on both counts. Having spelled out what quantum computation is about, he also explains the engineering difficulties in getting it to happen. And why one should be confident that such difficulties will be overcome, though maybe not by tomorrow morning.

⭐very easy to understand from this book. even maths. involved is simple.

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