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Protecting Information : from classical error correction to quantum cryptography

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2006Description: xiv, 287p. illISBN:
  • 9780521534765 (PB)
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Contents:
1. Cryptography : an overview 2. Quantum mechanics 3. Quantum cryptography 4. An introduction to error-correcting codes 5. Quantum cryptography revisited 6. Generalized Reed-Solomon codes 7. Quantum computing.
Summary: In the transmission of information storage, preventing noise and/or eavesdropping is essential. This undergraduate introduction to quantum computing focuses on error correction and cryptography, providing a context in which ideas about mathematics, computer science and physics meet together, and students can understand the current thinking in quantum information theory.
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Includes index

Includes bibliography (p. 277-284) and references

1. Cryptography : an overview 2. Quantum mechanics 3. Quantum cryptography 4. An introduction to error-correcting codes 5. Quantum cryptography revisited 6. Generalized Reed-Solomon codes 7. Quantum computing.

In the transmission of information storage, preventing noise and/or eavesdropping is essential. This undergraduate introduction to quantum computing focuses on error correction and cryptography, providing a context in which ideas about mathematics, computer science and physics meet together, and students can understand the current thinking in quantum information theory.

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