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Quantum Information with Continuous Variables,
S. L. Braunstein and A. K. Pati (Edts), Springer (2003)
Quantum information may sound like science fiction but is, in fact, an active
and extremely promising area of research, with a big dream: to build a
quantum computer capable of solving problems that a classical computer could
not even begin to handle. Research in quantum information science is now at
an advanced enough stage for this dream to be credible and well-worth
pursuing. It is, at the same time, too early to predict how quantum computers
will be built, and what potential technologies will eventually strike gold
in their ability to manipulate and process quantum information.
One direction that has reaped many successes in quantum information
processing relies on continuous variables. This area is bustling with
theoretical and experimental achievements, from continuous-variable
teleportation, to in-principle demonstrations of universal computation
and efficient error correction. Now the time has come to compile some of
the major results into one volume. In this book the leading researchers of
the field present up-to-date developments of continuous-variable quantum
information. This book is organized to suit many reader levels with
introductions to every topic and in-depth discussions of theoretical and
experimental results.
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Quantum Aspects of Life
D. Abbott, P. Davies and A. K. Pati (Edts), World Scientific (2008).
This book presents the hotly debated question of whether quantum mechanics
plays a non-trivial role in biology. In a timely way, it sets out a distinct
quantum biology agenda. The burgeoning fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology,
quantum technology, and quantum information processing are now strongly
converging. The acronym BINS, for Bio-Info-Nano-Systems, has been coined to
describe the synergetic interface of these several disciplines. The living
cell is an information replicating and processing system that is replete
with naturally-evolved nanomachines, which at some level require a quantum
mechanical description. As quantum engineering and nanotechnology meet,
increasing use will be made of biological structures, or hybrids of
biological and fabricated systems, for producing novel devices for information
storage and processing and other tasks. An understanding of these systems at
a quantum mechanical level will be indispensable.