Computing With Quantum Cats by Gribbin, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Computing with Quantum Cats Part One: Computing

1 - Turing and the Machine

A Child of Empire Sherborne Cambridge… …And Princeton Bletchley and the Bombe The Flowering of Colossus Anticlimax: After Bletchley

2 - Von Neumann and the Machines

Jancsi Johnny and the Institute Johnny and the Bomb The American Heritage A German Diversion The Second Strand ENIAC Von Neumann Picks Up the Ball Self-Replicating Robots

First Interlude: Classical Limits

Part Two: Quanta

3 - Feynman and the Quantum

MIT From Princeton to Los Alamos Schrödinger and His Equation The Experiment with Two Holes Integrating History A PhD with a Principle Cats Don't Collapse The Gateway to Quantum Computation Fredkin, Feynman and Friends

4 - Bell and the Tangled Web

Dropping the Pilot Von Neumann Gets It Wrong Spooky Action at a Distance Bohm Does the Impossible From Belfast to Bohm, and Beyond Von Neumann's Silly Mistake and Bell's Inequality First Fruits Closing the Loophole

Second Interlude: Quantum Limits

Part Three: Computing with Quanta

5 - Deutsch and the Multiverse

Everett Sets the Scene Solving the Measurement Problem The Worlds of Deutsch A Measure of Universes The Good: Cracking Codes Conveniently The Bad: Limits of Quantum Computation The Ugly: Making it Work

6 - Turing's Heirs and the Quantum Machines

The Key Criteria Josephson and the Junction Leggett and the SQUID Computing with SQUIDs Corralling with Quantum Dots The Nuclear Option The Nuts and Bolts of NMR Trapped Ions Take a Bow The Teleportation Tango Fun with Photons

Coda: A Quantum of Discord

Photos Insert Notes Sources and Further Reading Picture Acknowledgments Index Back Cover