The Feynman Processor

by Gerard J. Milburn

Jacket Description.

Conventional computers can't go on getting faster and smaller forever. Eventually the basic switches inside computers will reach atomic size. But the unpredictability of matter at this level has enabled scientists to rethink the way we could design, build and use new 'quantum computers'.

The Feyman Processor tells of the development of quantum computation. It describes the essential features of the quantum world which have the potential to endow quantum computers with an enormous range of powerful capabilities, and details current attempts by mathematicians, engineers, computer scientists and physicists to design a machine that can realize the dream of quantum computational power.

Table of Contents.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The quantum principle: inexhaustible uncertainty
2. Quantum entanglement
3. Teleportation for gamblers
4. Reality, by Nintendo
5. Quantum Software
6. The dream machine

Epilogue

Glossary

Endnotes

Index