Introduction to Quantum Physics and Information Processing

Introduction 13

It is into this amazingly rich and novel quantum world that we are going

plunge now, starting at the surface, to get a broad overview and an under-

standing of the fundamentals.

1.4 References for Further Reading

Much of the material in this book is based on some of the classics on the

subject: Nielsen and Chuang [50], the encyclopedic tome which was the first

textbook on quantum computation when the field was mainly one for ad-

vanced research; Mermin [48] which is an excellent introduction to quantum

computing for the non-specialist; John Preskill’s online lecture notes from his

Caltech classes [57]; and for more subtle ideas in quantum ...