John Watrous (Ontario University of Waterloo)

The Theory of Quantum Information

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Intended for graduate students and researchers, this book presents a formal development of the mathematical theory of quantum information. Largely self-contained, with clear proofs and a wide range of exercises, it will help the reader grasp the fundamental facts and techniques that form the mathematical foundations of the subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 598
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1284g
• ISBN-13: 9781107180567
• ISBN-10: 1107180562
• Artikelnr.: 50016528

Autorenporträt

John Watrous is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and a Faculty Member of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is also an Affiliate Member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Quantum information and computation has been his primary research focus for over twenty years.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mathematical preliminaries
2. Basic notions of quantum information
3. Similarity and distance among states and channels
4. Unital channels and majorization
5. Quantum entropy and source coding
6. Bipartite entanglement
7. Permutation invariance and unitarily invariant measures
8. Quantum channel capacities
References
List of symbols and notations
Index.