id: 05936842
dt: b
an: 05936842
au: Brands, Gilbert
ti: Introduction to quantum informatics. Quantum cryptography, teleportation
    and quantum computing. (Einführung in die Quanteninformatik.
    Quantenkryptografie, Teleportation und Quantencomputing.)
so: eXamen.press. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-20646-7/hbk;
    978-3-642-20647-4/ebook). x, 374~p. EUR~39.95; SFR~50.00 (2011).
py: 2011
pu: Berlin: Springer
la: DE
cc: 
ut: quantum information; quantum computers; algorithms; cryptography;
    teleportation
ci: 
li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20647-4
ab: The book is meant as an introduction to the recently developed field of
    quantum information especially suitable for informatics students. The
    table of contents is extremely detailed. The book is divided into six
    chapters: 1) Introduction, in which the author provides aims and
    motivations of the book, as well as discusses the spirit in which the
    book is written; 2) Quantum mechanical phenomena, in which some basic
    quantum experiments without a classical explanation are briefly
    described; 3) Basics of quantum mechanics, in which a compact
    introduction of quantum mechanics is given in view of applications in
    quantum information; 4) Quanta of light and cryptography, which deals
    with quantum cryptography, including the issues of error correction and
    practical realization of cryptographic schemes via optical systems; 5)
    Teleportation, devoted to theory and experimental realization of
    teleportation; 6) Quantum computers, devoted to quantum computers and,
    more specifically, fundamental gates, quantum error correction, quantum
    algorithms and applications. Throughout the book, written in an
    unconventional style, only few references to the literature are given
    as footnotes, but each of the topics or examples introduced is
    discussed at length. To give an example, when discussing optical
    implementation of cryptographic protocols the authors provides a lot of
    informations about photon sources, optical elements and other details.
    Exercises are also suggested, which often rely on some numerical
    simulation to be performed in C++ or other programming language.
rv: Bassano Vacchini (Milano)