June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
33h 24m
English
Norbert Lütkenhaus
University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
Quantum computation is usually thought of as a sequence of quantum gates. This sequence of gates decomposes the desired total unitary operation of our computation. It is followed by a measurement that extracts the result of the computation. In Chapter 11, a different concept was introduced and a specific, highly entangled input state was prepared. The computation was performed by measuring out the individual systems in a specific pattern. Both approaches have one thing in common: in principle they work deterministically. ...