The inter-disciplinary science and technology development on the twenty-first century enabled us to combine the aspects of different disciplines and make excellent results, application and solutions to real life problems. The exciting development that we are sure to see in the coming future is quantum computation. Merger of computer science with physics, quantum mechanics opens a large opportunity in the computing space. In today's information driven world, quantum computation is about to redefine the way we think about information technology and computer science world. This book will give you a fundamental idea about quantum computations, theories, application, physical interpretation, programming a quantum computer and programming language Q#.

This chapter emphasizes on the historical aspect of quantum computation. A brief history of origin of the idea of quantum computation will be given in this chapter apart from the basic physical interpretation, representation and quantum mechanics of quantum computation systems. The following topics will be covered in this chapter: