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Author Brown, J. R. (Julian Russell), 1957-

Title Minds, machines, and the multiverse : the quest for the quantum computer / Julian Brown
Published New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000

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Description 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents Foreword by David Deutsch -- 1. Late-Night Quantum Thoughts -- Life in Other Universes -- The Quantum AI Experiment -- Exploring Hilbert Space -- The End of Moore£s Law? -- From Bill Gates to Quantum Gates -- The Hunter-Gatherers Take a Quantum Leap -- 2. God, the Universe, and the Reversible Computer -- The Computer That Just Coasts -- Shannon£s Information Theory -- The Puzzle of Maxwell£s Demon -- Much Ado About kT -- Landauer£s Principle -- The Reversible Computer -- Reversibility and the Laws of Physics -- Is the Universe a Computer? -- The Fredkin Gate -- The Billiard Ball Computer -- The God Game -- Low-Energy Computing -- 3. The Logic of the Quantum Conspiracy -- Feynman£s U-Turn -- Journey Into the Quantum Realm -- Strange Correlations -- The EPR Puzzle -- Designer Hamiltonians -- A Matter of Interpretation -- The Case for Many Universes -- The Universal Quantum Computer -- The Turing Principle -- 4. Quantum Parallelism -- The New Paradigm -- The Meaning of Superposition -- Counting on the Qubits -- The Square Root of NOT -- Rotations in Quantum Space -- Controlled-NOT and the Toffoli Gate -- Playing the Markets with a Quantum Computer -- Turbocharged Algorithms -- Tractability vs. Intractability -- The Traveling Salesman Problem -- Does P Equal NP? -- Consulting the Oracle -- 5. Code Breaking and the Shor Algorithm -- The Problem of Factorization -- Secret Codes -- Public-Key Cryptography -- How Diffie-Hellman Works -- The RSA Alogrithm -- How RSA Works -- Cryptography and the Real World -- The Challenge of RSA-129 -- Factoring by E-Mail -- Factorization Takes a Quantum Leap -- Heat, Sound, and Fourier Series -- Light, Music, and Fourier Transforms -- The Quantum FFT -- 6. Privacy Lost, Privacy Regained -- Messages from Across the Quantum Channel -- All About Eve -- Dial Q for Qubits -- Quantum Clones and Counterfeit Coins -- How to Send a Quantum Valentine -- The Rise and Fall of Quantum Bit Commitment -- Cryptography by Entanglement -- Quantum Compression -- Beam Me Up, Atom by Atom -- 7. How to Build a Quantum Computer -- Going Universal -- Two-Bit Processors -- The Polymer Machine -- The Trouble with Decoherence -- Trapping the Atom -- Flying Qubits -- The Doctors of Spin -- How Useful Is NMR Quantum Computation? -- Connecting the Quantum Dots -- Runners in the Quantum Race -- 8. Quantum Error Correction and Other Algorithms -- Processing in the Dark -- Democracy Among the Qubits -- Three-Bit Quantum Error Correction -- How Does Quantum Error Correction Scale? -- Crossing the Error Threshold -- Creating the GHZ State -- Take a Ride on the Universal Quantum Simulator -- Searching a Quantum Phone Directory -- Amadeus and the Quantum Complexity Puzzle -- The Shape of Quantum Circuits to Come -- 9. Visions of the Quantum Age -- A Quantum Computing Road Map -- Nanotechnology and the Singularity -- DNA Computing -- Clones, Consciousness, and the Indivisible Soul -- Quantum Gravity and the Measurement Problem -- Is the Brain a Quantum Computer? -- Why Is the Universe Comprehensible? -- Trading Histories for Universes -- Are Decoherent Histories the Answer? -- The Quantum Universe and the Omega Point -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- Appendix G -- Appendix H -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references page 373 - 374 and index
Subject Quantum computers.
LC no. 99056638
ISBN 0684814811