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Quantum Computing Algorithms

By : Barry Burd
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Book Image

Quantum Computing Algorithms

5 (1)
By: Barry Burd

Overview of this book

Navigate the quantum computing spectrum with this book, bridging the gap between abstract, math-heavy texts and math-avoidant beginner guides. Unlike intermediate-level books that often leave gaps in comprehension, this all-encompassing guide offers the missing links you need to truly understand the subject. Balancing intuition and rigor, this book empowers you to become a master of quantum algorithms. No longer confined to canned examples, you'll acquire the skills necessary to craft your own quantum code. Quantum Computing Algorithms is organized into four sections to build your expertise progressively. The first section lays the foundation with essential quantum concepts, ensuring that you grasp qubits, their representation, and their transformations. Moving to quantum algorithms, the second section focuses on pivotal algorithms — specifically, quantum key distribution and teleportation. The third section demonstrates the transformative power of algorithms that outpace classical computation and makes way for the fourth section, helping you to expand your horizons by exploring alternative quantum computing models. By the end of this book, quantum algorithms will cease to be mystifying as you make this knowledge your asset and enter a new era of computation, where you have the power to shape the code of reality.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Part 1 Nuts and Bolts
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Part 2 Making Qubits Work for You
10
Part 3 Quantum Computing Algorithms
14
Part 4 Beyond Gate-Based Quantum Computing

Shoring up your knowledge

Understanding Shor’s algorithm can be difficult because examples with manageable-size numbers are hard to find. For instance, a minimal circuit that factors 15 with 11 as its coprime may involve five qubits. Wielding five qubits at once means multiplying 32 × 32 matrices by one another. Each matrix contains 1024 complex numbers. That’s too many numbers for one example in a book.

You can overcome the conceptual difficulties using summations and linear algebra, and I encourage you to study more about these approaches. In the meantime, this section describes some aspects of Shor’s algorithm that previous sections glossed over.

At some future date, when we have quantum computers that can crack real RSA encryption problems, those computers will probably have thousands of qubits. Alice will start with a public key, n, that has 2048 bits. To attack that key with Shor’s algorithm, Eve’s circuit will implement an N ×...