Shortcut Through Time The Path to the Quantum Computer

Name: Shortcut Through Time The Path to the Quantum Computer
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ISBN: 9780375411939

ISBN-10: 0375411933

ISBN-13: 9780375411939

Edition: 2003

Authors: George Johnson

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The first book to prepare us for the next big—perhaps the biggest—breakthrough in the short history of the cyberworld: the development of the quantum computer. The newest Pentium chip driving personal computers packs 40 million electronic switches onto a piece of silicon the size of a thumbnail. It is dramatically smaller and more powerful than anything that has come before it. If this incredible shrinking act continues, the logical culmination is a computer in which each switch is composed of a single atom. And at that point the miraculous—the actualization of quantum mechanics—becomes real. If atoms can be harnessed, society will be transformed: problems that could take forever to be…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/18/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface: Inside the Black Box


Prologue: The Road to Blue Mountain


"Simple Electric Brain Machines and How to Make Them"


Tinkertoy Logic


Playing with Mirrors


A Shortcut Through Time


Shor's Algorithm


Breaking the Code


Invisible Machines


Counting with Atoms


Quantum Secrecy


The Hardest Problem in the Universe


Epilogue: The Nine Billion Names of God


The Fine Print: Notes and Sources


Acknowledgments


Index