Introduction to Quantum Physics and Information Processing

Preface

This book is aimed at undergraduates or beginning graduates in physics,

mathematics or engineering, as an introduction to the developing field of

quantum information. The book has grown out of lecture notes for a one-

semester course offered to undergraduate students of engineering and science

at the BITS Pilani Goa Campus. The level is consequently basic, and is in-

tended to train a student with no background in quantum physics to be able

to follow more advanced books on the subject, such as the classic by Neilsen

and Chuang, and also research material in this rapidly growing field. We start

from the basics of quantum mechanics required to understand ...