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Author:   Oliver Morsch (Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italia)
Publisher:   Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Imprint:   Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9783527407101

ISBN 10:   3527407103
Pages:   189
Publication Date:   13 February 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 The Colours of the Rainbow - A Prelude 3 Light, Waves and Oscillations - Some Useful Facts 4 Nature's Currency - The Story of the Quantum 5 Surprising Discoveries - A Glimpse at Quantum Mechanics 6 When Alice Met Bob - The Principles of Quantum Cryptography 7 The Logic of Superpositions - How Quantum Computing Works 8 Shor's Revolution - An Introduction to Quantum Algorithms 9 Promising Prototypes - How Quantum Computers Might Be Built 10 Sensitive States - Why Quantum Error Correction is Important 11 Trying the Impossible - More Quantum Tricks 12 Dream or Reality? - The Past, Present and Future of Quantum Information

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Oliver Morsch, born in 1970, received his Ph.D. in physics from Oxford University in 1999. He then accepted a post as senior researcher at the National Research Council of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter in Pisa, Italy. Dr. Morsch's research interests concentrate on ultracold atoms, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum computers. He works as a freelance science journalist for various newspapers and journals and has published two popular science books with Wiley-VCH.

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