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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
2
Part 1 Nuts and Bolts
7
Part 2 Making Qubits Work for You
10
Part 3 Quantum Computing Algorithms
14
Part 4 Beyond Gate-Based Quantum Computing

Questions

Alice stands up straight while she performs experiments with photons and filters. In each of the experiments, vertical refers to the way Alice is standing, and horizontal refers to the line of the floor:

  1. In the first experiment, 1,000 vertically polarized photons hit a vertically polarized filter. How many of the photons get through the filter?
  2. In the next experiment, 1,000 vertically polarized photons hit a horizontally polarized filter. How many of the photons get through the filter?
  3. In Alice’s next experiment, 1,000 vertically polarized photons hit a diagonally polarized filter. The ones that make it through hit another filter that’s diagonally polarized in the same direction as the first filter. Assuming that 500 photons made it through the first filter, how many of them make it through the second filter?
  4. In another experiment, 1,000 vertically polarized photons hit a diagonally polarized filter. The ones that make it through hit another...