Quantum Information: An Overview by Gregg Jaeger (PDF)

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This book gives an overview for practitioners and students of quantum physics and information science. It provides ready access to essential information on quantum information processing and communication, such as definitions, protocols and algorithms. Quantum information science is rarely found in clear and concise form. This book brings together this information from its various sources. It allows researchers and students in a range of areas including physics, photonics, solid-state electronics, nuclear magnetic resonance and information technology, in their applied and theoretical branches, to have this vital material directly at hand.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “This book provides a concise overview over quantum information theory. [It] can be recommended to researchers in other fields who wants to get a fast and sound overview over the subject… [S]uitable for students… For researchers… can serve as a compact reference book.” (Michael Keyl, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1166, 2009) From the Back Cover This book is a comprehensive yet concise overview of quantum information science, which is a rapidly developing area of interdisciplinary investigation that now plays a significant role in physics, information technology and engineering. It is a handy reference for practitioners and students covering quantum mechanics, quantum key distribution, quantum computation and quantum communication, as well as explicating foundational issues of these topics. Specific protocols for quantum coding, quantum teleportation, quantum key distribution, quantum data compression and entanglement purification are discussed, as are quantum algorithms, including the Deutsch-Jozsa, Shor and Grover algorithms. Appendices on the mathematics of quantum information science and postulates of quantum mechanics are included. The book contains more than 25 illustrations that encapsulate essential ideas and fundamental constructs of quantum information science. The bibliography contains more than 400 articles from the literature of quantum mechanics and information science. Foreword by Prof. Tommaso Toffoli. About the Author Dr. Jaeger is Associate Professor at Boston University. He research focus has been in quantum mechanics, particularly quantum computing, quantum cryptography, quantum metrology and the foundations of quantum mechanics. He was worked in academia and industry in the United States and Europe as a research director, theorist and experimentalist. He participated in the building of the world’s first practical metropolitan area quantum cryptographic network, the DARPA Quantum Network Test-bed, as a member of the Quantum Imaging Laboratory (and more recently the Quantum Communication and Measurement Laboratory) with Boston University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the BU Photonics Center, along with colleagues at Harvard University and BBN Technologies. Read more

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⭐I found this quote from the preface the best description of what this book is about: “an overview that efficiently yet rigorously presents the fundamentals and that provides a detailed weblinked bibliography to take one further. This book is intended to be such a handy reference for practitioners and students of quantum physics and computer science that also treats foundational aspects of quantum mechanics connected with quantum information science, including those associated with quantum measurement which plays an essential role in relating classical and quantum information. Most of the examples provided here are quantum-optical ones as a pragmatic matter, arising from the fact that interferometry is central to quantum information processing and the fact that interferometry has primarily progressed through optical physics.”

⭐I really did not get it. The book is so concise that it is impossible to follow for a reader without substantial expertise.After I have learned some topics, such as Bell inequalities, from other sources, I realize that I cannot learn from this book even if I give it a chance. Two stars is for topic.

⭐I am a physicist working in the field of quantum information. I looked for a book on quantum information that is clear, concise and up-to-date. I found two such books: Quantum Information/Barnett and this book. I think the former book is much clearer than this book, but this book also has certain advantages which include:- High level- Relative clarity- Concentration on physics and not just mathematics- Book is Concise and has no long mathematical proofs, for which only references are given. As a result, the book covers a large amount of material.The disadvantages I found were:- Sometimes the discussion is too concise, and this hurts clarity.- Explicit calculations are not given and therefore the reader’s ability to solve problems is not improved.- No exercises at the end of chapters- Too many footnotes. Some of the footnotes are redundant.In summary, I think Quantum Information/Barnett is suitable for the introductory level , while this book is better for the intermediate to advanced level.

⭐Since this new field of quantum information is rapidly maturing, there currently exist many excellent textbooks from which to choose from in order to learn basic ideas and acquire technical tools. This book has a different aim, as suggested by its name and as eloquently introduced in the foreword by Prof. Tommaso Toffoli, “In one word, this is a ‘responsible’ book, the rest is commentary.”As a third year graduate student myself with eight months of active research in the field, the value of this text for me was that it clearly tied together the most important ideas from each subfield of quantum information. The reader is unburdened by pages and pages of proofs in the body of the text. For that, there’s a 477 item bibliography at the end that guides the reader to the original source. […]Not having proofs does not imply lack of depth, but leaves room for insightful commentary and interesting historical tidbits (page 52 footnote: “…(John) Bell had himself officially listed as a ‘quantum engineer’ in the CERN personnel directory.”) In addition to the articulate running commentary, it’s very important to note that there exists enough material that this book could also be used as a reference.This book should be required reading for any working physicist within the field, as well as those in related fields with familiarity of quantum mechanics. Anyone without formal training in quantum mechanics could still benefit by skipping the points not dealing directly with the formalism, especially in the introductions to the chapters and sections.Overall, a coherent and very useful book.

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