Gates And Rowan's

Gates (Ph.D., environmental sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Inst.; Encyclopedia of Earthquakes) and Blauvelt (senior vice president, Environmental Waste Management Assocs.) provide a balanced view of sensitive topics, outlining the historic background on the use of pollutants and environmentally detrimental policies.

This comprehensive textbook describes such remarkable effects as fast quantum algorithms, quantum teleportation, quantum cryptography and quantum error-correction. Quantum mechanics and computer science are introduced before moving on to describe what a quantum computer is, how it can be used to solve problems faster than 'classical' computers and its real-world implementation. It concludes with an in-depth treatment of quantum information. Containing a wealth of figures and exercises, this well-known textbook is ideal for courses on the subject, and will interest beginning graduate students and researchers in physics, computer science, mathematics, and electrical engineering.