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Schrödinger's Killer App: Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer

Schrödinger's Killer App: Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer

Dowling, Jonathan P.

Paperback

General ComputersGeneral MathematicsPhysics

ISBN10: 1439896739
ISBN13: 9781439896730
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: May 7 2013
Pages: 453
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Written by a renowned quantum physicist closely involved in the U.S. government's development of quantum information science, this book presents an inside look at the government's quest to build a quantum computer capable of solving complex mathematical problems and hacking the public-key encryption codes used to secure the Internet. The killer app refers to Shor's quantum factoring algorithm, which would unveil the encrypted communications of the entire Internet if a quantum computer could be built to run the algorithm. Schrödinger's notion of quantum entanglement-and his infamous cat-is at the heart of it all.

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