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Quantum Computing

  • 11-08-2008 2:40pm
    #1
    thebaldsoprano
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    Hey

    Can anyone recommend any good books/websites on this?

    Been meaning to read up on this for a while now.

    Cheers!


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  • #2
    Professor_Fink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭Professor_Fink


    thebaldsoprano wrote: »
    Hey

    Can anyone recommend any good books/websites on this?

    Been meaning to read up on this for a while now.

    Cheers!

    Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Nielsen and Chuang is pretty much the bible for QIP. It's also a pretty easy read.


  • #3
    thebaldsoprano
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    Professor_Fink wrote: »
    Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Nielsen and Chuang is pretty much the bible for QIP. It's also a pretty easy read.

    Well I dunno about easy, but it does look readable alright, cheers!

    If you could recommend a similar book about more general Quantum Theory aswell I'd much appreciate it.


  • #4
    Professor_Fink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭Professor_Fink


    thebaldsoprano wrote: »
    Well I dunno about easy, but it does look readable alright, cheers!

    If you could recommend a similar book about more general Quantum Theory aswell I'd much appreciate it.

    There is nothing really comparable for general quantum mechanics. Quantum Mechanics by Alastair I M Rae is a fairly smooth introduction.


  • #5
    thebaldsoprano
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    Great, thanks a mil!


  • #6
    Michael Collins
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,852 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael Collins


    Quantum by Jim Al-Khalili is an excellent popular science book intro to Quantum Physics and Quantum Mechanics. He's got a nice writting style, it's extremely well illustrated, and only costs about 10 euro on Amazon these days!


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  • #7
    thebaldsoprano
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    Cheers for that aswell. I do need to see a few 'sums' though to get my head around stuff, and especially this kind of stuff :)

    There's a really good book by Werner Heisenburg (chap who developed the Uncertainty Principal) called 'Physics and Philosophy' that'd be well
    worth checking out if you like this kind of thing. Probably about the same level as 'A Brief History of Time' and a really good read aswell.


  • #8
    Morbert
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    A little late but *shrug*

    I liked "Classical and Quantum Computation" (A. Yu. Kitaev, A.H. Shen, M.N. Vyalyi)


  • #9
    Professor_Fink
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    Morbert wrote: »
    A little late but *shrug*

    I liked "Classical and Quantum Computation" (A. Yu. Kitaev, A.H. Shen, M.N. Vyalyi)

    Yes, I have that too, and it is great if you are interested in Surface codes, etc., but isn't the most gentle introduction to QIP. It really depends what you are looking for. There are by now a fairly wide range of books on QIP each of which has a different strength or strengths, so it really depends what you are looking for. I would still recommend Nielsen and Chaung as -the- book to read for an introduction. If you want to read more about fault-tolerance, for example, try Kitaev's book, or if you want to learn more about algorithms try Mosca, Laflamme and Kay.


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