Quantum Computing - Foundations and Practice

This textbook provides a compelling, comprehensive, and up-to-date course on quantum computing. The underlying physics is developed in detail in the opening chapters, and the heart of the book then presents, in a clear and mathematically rigorous manner, all of the most important quantum algorithms and communication protocols.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Linear algebra


• 3: Quantum mechanics and quantum information


• 4: Quantum circuits


• 5: Quantum communication protocols


• 6: Quantum advantage


• 7: Quantum algorithms for query problems


• 8: Quantum search


• 9: Quantum phase estimation and quantum amplitude estimation


• 10: Order finding, period finding, and quantum factoring


• 11: Hamiltonian simulation and ground state energy estimation


• 12: Quantum optimisation


• 13: A quantum linear system solver


• 14: Quantum signal processing and the quantum singular value transformation


• 15: An introduction to quantum error correction


• Appendix A: Simulating the Hadamard gate in the quadratic form expansion

About the author

Steven Herbert is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge and Head of Quantum Algorithms at Quantinuum, the world's largest integrated quantum company. He has MA, MEng and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge, and was previously a by-fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. He has held research positions at the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, also spending a sabbatical at Imperial College, London. He is known for his work on fast stabiliser circuit simulation, quantum topological data analysis, Fourier analysis for quantum circuit decomposition, and pioneering the application of AI to quantum compilation.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Herbert, Steven (Affiliated Lecturer Herbert
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.12.2025
• EAN: 9780192868442
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286844-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, MATHEMATICS / Discrete Mathematics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Information visualization, Maths for computer scientists, COMPUTERS / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Visualization, Natural computing / Quantum computing