Model Checking Quantum Systems - Principles and Algorithms

This is the first book introducing computer aided verification techniques for quantum systems, including quantum computing and communication hardware and software. Graduates and senior undergraduates will appreciate the examples and exercises included, while researchers and engineers in the related fields can use the techniques in their own work.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Basics of Model Checking; 3. Basics of Quantum Theory; 4. Model Checking; 5. Model Checking Quantum Markov Chains; 6. Model Checking Super-operator-valued Markov Chains; 7. Conclusions and Prospects.

About the author

Mingsheng Ying is Distinguished Professor in the Centre for Quantum Software and Information, University of Technology Sydney; Deputy Director for Research of the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Cheung Kong Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. His research interests are quantum computing, programming theory, and logics in artificial intelligence. He is the author of the books Foundations of Quantum Programming (2016) and Topology in Process Calculus: Approximate Correctness and Infinite Evolution of Concurrent Programs (2001). Currently, he serves as (Co-)Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing.Yuan Feng is Professor in the Centre for Quantum Software and Information, University of Technology Sydney. His research interests include formal verification of quantum systems, the theory of quantum programming, quantum information and computation, and probabilistic systems. He has published more than 70 research papers in international leading journals and mainstream conferences. He was awarded an ARC (Australian Research Council) Future Fellowship in 2010.

Summary

This is the first book introducing computer aided verification techniques for quantum systems, including quantum computing and communication hardware and software. Graduates and senior undergraduates will appreciate the examples and exercises included, while researchers and engineers in the related fields can use the techniques in their own work.

Product details

• Authors: Yuan Feng, Yuan (University of Technology Feng, Feng Yuan, Ying Yuan Feng Mingsheng Ying, Mingsheng Ying, Mingsheng (University of Technology Ying, Ying Mingsheng
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108484305
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48430-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; COMPUTERS / Information Theory, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, COMPUTERS / Logic Design, COMPUTERS / Machine Theory, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Information theory, Mathematical theory of computation, Computer architecture & logic design, COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture, Computer architecture and logic design