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Author Kasirajan, Venkateswaran, author

Title Fundamentals of quantum computing : theory and practice / Venkateswaran Kasirajan
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]
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Contents Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Image Credits -- Reading Guide -- Introduction -- The Audience of this Book -- Opportunities for the Readers -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1 -- Foundations of Quantum Mechanics -- Chapter 2 -- Diracś bra-ket notation and Hermitian Operators -- Chapter 3 -- The Quantum Superposition Principle and Bloch Sphere Representation -- Chapter 4 -- Qubit Modalities -- Chapter 5 -- Quantum Circuits and DiVincenzo Criteria -- Chapter 6 -- Quantum Communications -- Chapter 7 -- Quantum Algorithms -- Chapter 8 -- Adiabatic Optimization and Quantum Annealing
Chapter 9 -- Quantum Error Correction -- Chapter 10 -- Conclusion -- Reading Guide -- Note: -- Note: -- Conventions -- Indexing Qubits -- Coloring Scheme for Bloch Spheres -- Source Code Listings -- Keeping the Connections -- About the Author -- Part I -- Foundations -- 1: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics -- 1.1 Matter -- 1.1.1 States of Matter -- 1.2 Atoms, Elementary Particles, and Molecules -- 1.2.1 Atoms -- 1.2.2 The Periodic Table -- 1.2.3 Bohrś Model of the Atom -- 1.2.4 Elementary Particles -- 1.2.5 Molecules -- 1.3 Light and Quantization of Energy -- 1.3.1 Blackbody Radiation
1.3.2 Photoelectric Effect and the Concept of Photons -- 1.3.3 What Happens When Light Hits an Atom? -- 1.4 Electron Configuration -- 1.4.1 Pauliś Exclusion Principle -- 1.4.2 Principal Quantum Number n -- 1.4.3 Orbital Angular Momentum Quantum Number l -- 1.5 Wave-Particle Duality and Probabilistic Nature -- 1.5.1 Maxwellś Electromagnetic Theory -- 1.5.2 De Broglie Waves -- 1.5.3 Youngś Double-Slit Experiment -- 1.6 Wavefunctions and Probability Amplitudes -- 1.6.1 Realism in Physics -- 1.6.2 What Happens When We Measure a Quantum System? -- 1.6.3 Heisenbergś Uncertainty Principle
1.6.4 Weak Measurements -- Example 1.1 -- 1.7 Some Exotic States of Matter -- 1.7.1 Quasiparticles and Collective Excitations -- 1.7.2 Phonons -- 1.7.3 Cooper Pairs (or the BCS Pairs) -- 1.7.4 Superconductors -- 1.7.5 s-Wave, d-Wave, and p-Wave Superconductors -- 1.7.6 Anyons -- 1.7.7 Majorana Fermions -- 1.8 Summary -- Practice Problems -- References -- 2: Diracś Bra-ket Notation and Hermitian Operators -- 2.1 Scalars -- 2.2 Complex Numbers -- 2.2.1 Complex Conjugate -- 2.2.2 Norm of a Complex Number -- 2.3 Vectors -- 2.3 Example 2.1 -- 2.3.1 Magnitude of Vectors -- 2.3.2 Unit Vector
2.3.3 Addition and Subtraction of Vectors -- 2.3.4 Multiplication of Vectors -- 2.3.4.1 Dot Product or Scalar Product of Vectors -- 2.3.4.2 Vector Product or Cross Product of Vectors -- 2.4 Matrices -- 2.4.1 Properties of Matrices -- 2.4 Example 2.2 -- 2.4 Example 2.3 -- 2.4 Example 2.4 -- 2.4 Example 2.5 -- 2.4 Example 2.6 -- 2.4 Exercise 2.1 -- 2.4 Exercise 2.2 -- 2.4 Exercise 2.3 -- 2.4.2 Permutation Matrices -- 2.4.3 Hermitian Matrix -- 2.4.4 Unitary Matrices -- 2.4.5 Pauli Matrices -- 2.4 Exercise 2.4 -- 2.4 Exercise 2.5 -- 2.5 Linear Vector Spaces -- 2.5.1 Linear Independence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 16, 2021)
Subject Quantum computing.
Quantum computing
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030636890
3030636895