Book Tips - Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing
Quantum computers are considered the next evolutionary step in information technology. While classical computers have always been based on binary codes as the states zero and one, quantum bits can also assume two states simultaneously. Sounds complicated, and it may be. In this issue's tips, we present books that shed light on the subject. They also address the question of what changes will come to IT and what new business models for companies will result from the new technology. That quantum mechanics, as an elusive science, has also always occupied esotericists.
"A purely rational world view without mysticism is an absurdity. " -Erwin Schrödinger
Source: E-3 Magazine - Issue December/January 2017
Mathematics of Quantum Informatics
This book presents the elementary mathematical aspects in quantum computing in the strict formalism of mathematics. The reader is first provided with the basic mathematical knowledge required. With this toolkit, the principles of quantum mechanics are then formulated and the aspects relevant to quantum computing are explained. A large number of exercises, whose solutions are presented in the appendix, give the reader the opportunity to check and deepen his understanding.
The quantum god
When Lotte Ingrisch discusses with physicist Helmut Rauch, outdated world views are thrown out of joint. They adeptly address multi-layered questions: Is it possible to be alive and dead at the same time, like Schrödinger's cat? Can we exist simultaneously in different places, at different times, in different states? The book is a fascinating panorama of ghosts, theories and scientific knowledge.
The creative future
Matter does not consist of matter but of "standing waves" of spaceless and timeless information. From physics thus comes a hint to a spiritual nature of the universe. Since the quantum theory in its incompatibility with the relativity theory needs an interpretation, physics is now followed by an inductive meta-physics which unites both theories on the philosophical meta-level for the first time.
Quantum 5
Quantum 5 contains the two talks given at the general meeting of the Heisenberg Society in October 2016. Reinhard Werner spoke about the meaning of Heisenberg's indeterminacy relation and its interpretation in the context of quantum mechanics. Johannes Blümer reported, among other things, on the work on cosmic rays.
The reality that is not as it seems
What is reality? Do space and time really exist when we set out to explore the most elementary foundations of our existence? How much of it can we understand at all? In this book, Carlo Rovelli takes us on a journey that leads from the Greek classical understanding of reality to loop quantum gravity.
