This book is based on a lecture series held at Hewlett-Packard Labs, Basic Research Institute in the Mathematical Sciences (BRIMS), Bristol from November 1996 to April 1997, and also includes other contributions.

Contents: Basic Elements of Quantum Information Technology (T P Spiller); The Joy of Entanglement (S Popescu & D Rohrlich); Quantum Information and Its Properties (R Jozsa); Quantum Cryptology (H-K Lo); Experimental Quantum Cryptography (H Zbinden); Quantum Computation: An Introduction (A Barenco); Quantum Error Correction (A M Steane); Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation (J Preskill); Quantum Computers, Error-Corrrection and Networking: Quantum Optical Approaches (T Pellizzari); Quantum Computation with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (I L Chuang); Future Directions for Quantum Information Theory (C H Bennett).

Readership: Graduate students and advanced researchers in quantum/classical mechanics, quantum information & computation, theoretical foundations of computer science and information science.  less