Geometry of Quantum States: An Introduction to Quantum Entanglement

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Cambridge University Press, 2006 - 466
Quantum information theory is at the frontiers of physics, mathematics and information science, offering a variety of solutions that are impossible using classical theory. This book provides an introduction to the key concepts used in processing quantum information and reveals that quantum mechanics is a generalisation of classical probability theory. After a gentle introduction to the necessary mathematics the authors describe the geometry of quantum state spaces. Focusing on finite dimensional Hilbert spaces, they discuss the statistical distance measures and entropies used in quantum theory. The final part of the book is devoted to quantum entanglement - a non-intuitive phenomenon discovered by Schrödinger, which has become a key resource for quantum computation. This richly-illustrated book is useful to a broad audience of graduates and researchers interested in quantum information theory. Exercises follow each chapter, with hints and answers supplied.

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Karol Zyckowski is a Professor at the Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland and also the Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. He gained his Ph.D. (1987) and habilitation (1994) in theoretical physics at Jagiellonian University, and has followed this with a Humboldt Fellowship in Essen, a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park and currently a visiting research position at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario. He has been docent at the Academy of Sciences since 1999 and full professor at Jagiellonian University since 2004. Professor Zyczkowski is a member of the Polish Physical Society and the Institute of Physics. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Open Systems and Information Dynamics and Journal of Physics A.

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