Computing with quantum cats - John Gribbin
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Computing with Quantum Cats
PART ONE: COMPUTING
1 Turing and the Machine
A Child of Empire—Sherborne—Cambridge…and Princeton—Bletchley and the Bombe—The Flowering of Colossus—Anticlimax: After Bletchley
2 Von Neumann and the Machines
Jancsi—Johnny and the Institute—Johnny and the Bomb—The American Heritage—A German Diversion—The Second Strand—ENIAC—Von Neumann Picks Up the Ball—Self-Replicating Robots
First Interlude: Classical Limits
PART TWO: QUANTA
3 Feynman and the Quantum
MIT—From Princeton to Los Alamos—Schrödinger and His Equation—The Experiment with Two Holes—Integrating History—A PhD with a Principle—Cats Don’t Collapse—The Gateway to Quantum Computation—Fredkin, Feynman and Friends
4 Bell and the Tangled Web
Dropping the Pilot—Von Neumann Gets It Wrong—Spooky Action at a Distance—Bohm Does the Impossible—From Belfast to Bohm, and Beyond—Von Neumann’s Silly Mistake and Bell’s Inequality—First Fruits—Closing the Loophole
Second Interlude: Quantum Limits
PART THREE: COMPUTING WITH QUANTA
5 Deutsch and the Multiverse
Everett Sets the Scene—Solving the Measurement Problem—The Worlds of Deutsch—A Measure of Universes—The Good: Cracking Codes Conveniently—The Bad: Limits of Quantum Computation—The Ugly: Making It Work
6 Turing’s Heirs and the Quantum Machines
The Key Criteria—Josephson and the Junction—Leggett and the SQUID—Computing with SQUIDs—Corralling with Quantum Dots—The Nuclear Option—The Nuts and Bolts of NMR—Trapped Ions Take a Bow—The Teleportation Tango—Fun with Photons
Coda: A Quantum of Discord
Notes
Sources and Further Reading
Picture Acknowledgments
Index
CITAS
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