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Quantum Computing Explained
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Quantum Computing Explained

by David McMahon
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
7h 28m
English
Wiley-IEEE Press
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INDEX

Adiabatic Quantum

Computation 305, 310

Adiabatic Process 308

Adiabatic Theorem 308

Adjacency Matrices 319

Adjoint 46–47

Amplitude Damping 262

AND Gate 174

Balanced Function 204

Basis vectors 20, 63

BB84 244

B92 Protocol 247

Bell states 166, 188

Bell’s Theorem 151

Binary Entropy Function 297

Bipartite System 155

Bit-flip channel 261, 290

Bloch vector 115

Bra 28–30, 39

Bures Distance 289

Cauchy-Schwartz 31

Characteristic equation 49

Circuit diagrams 185

Cluster State Quantum

Computation 315–316, 324

Closed System 122

Closure relation 42

CNOT gate:

In teleportation 226

Collective Dephasing 273

Commutator 66

Composite states 74

Conditional entropy 6

Concurrence 291

Controlled-NOT Attack 246

Controlled-Rotation gate 271

CSS Codes 274

Density Operator 85, 89, 92, 233, 254

Depolarization Channel 260

Deutsch’s algorithm 205

Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm 207

E91 Protocol 248

Eigenvalues 48, 303

Ensemble 85, 108

Entanglement 147, 225

Of Formation 291

Swapping 234

When is a state entangled 229

Witness 322

Entropy 3, 296, 301

Errors:

Quantum Error Correction 272

Single qubit 252

Expectation Value 57, 88

And the density operator 95

Fidelity 166, 286–289

GHZ State 136, 322

Grover’s Algorithm 218

Gram-Schmidt Process 26

Hadamard Gate 198, 252

Adiabatic 310

Hamiltonian 306, 312

Harmonic Oscillator 265

Hermitian Operator 46, 81

Information content 2,4

Inner product 21, 32, 76

Interference 202

Key 240

Krauss Operators, 254, 259–260, 264

Kronecker product 73

Lambda State 318

Linear Independence ...

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