Theory of Quantum Information

Formal development of the mathematical theory of quantum information with clear proofs and exercises. For graduate students and researchers.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Watrous, John (University of Waterloo Watrous, WATROUS JOHN
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781107180567
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18056-7
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 250 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Kommunikationswissenschaft, Algebra, Quantenphysik (Quantenmechanik und Quantenfeldtheorie), COMPUTERS / General, Signalverarbeitung, Kodierungstheorie und Verschlüsselung (Kryptologie), Diskrete Mathematik, Informationstheorie, Theoretische Informatik, Algebraic Geometry, Discrete Mathematics, Signal Processing, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Information theory, Coding theory & cryptology, Mathematical theory of computation, Coding theory and cryptology, Digital signal processing (DSP)