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Dancing with Qubits

By : Robert S. Sutor
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Book Image

Dancing with Qubits

5 (1)
By: Robert S. Sutor

Overview of this book

Quantum computing is making us change the way we think about computers. Quantum bits, a.k.a. qubits, can make it possible to solve problems that would otherwise be intractable with current computing technology. Dancing with Qubits is a quantum computing textbook that starts with an overview of why quantum computing is so different from classical computing and describes several industry use cases where it can have a major impact. From there it moves on to a fuller description of classical computing and the mathematical underpinnings necessary to understand such concepts as superposition, entanglement, and interference. Next up is circuits and algorithms, both basic and more sophisticated. It then nicely moves on to provide a survey of the physics and engineering ideas behind how quantum computing hardware is built. Finally, the book looks to the future and gives you guidance on understanding how further developments will affect you. Really understanding quantum computing requires a lot of math, and this book doesn't shy away from the necessary math concepts you'll need. Each topic is introduced and explained thoroughly, in clear English with helpful examples.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
13
Afterword

Appendix D
Production Notes

The source content for this book was written in LATEX markup. I used many packages including amsmath, amssymb, biblatex, bookmark, ccicons, enumitem, framed, geometry, graphicx, hyperref, listings, minitoc, multicol, tcolorbox, and xifthen. Information about these packages is available at CTAN, the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network.

The diagrams and graphs were created with pgf/tikz, its libraries, and associated packages such as circuitikz. I am especially indebted to Alastair Kay for his brilliant quantikz package. All quantum circuits were created using this package.

I prepared the text in the open source Visual Studio Code editor from Microsoft and others. James Yu’s LaTeX Workshop extension made creating this book much easier. tex4ht and make4ht were used with custom Python and sed scripts to produce the eBook.

Files were stored in Dropbox folders and version control was handled by git and github.

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