Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

{{Short description|Textbook by scientists Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang

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| author = Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang

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2010 (second ed.)

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Quantum Computation and Quantum Information is a textbook about quantum information science written by Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang, regarded as a standard text on the subject.{{Cite journal|last=Vogel|first=Manuel|date=2011-11-01|title=Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, by M.A. Nielsen and I.L. Chuang|journal=Contemporary Physics|volume=52|issue=6|pages=604–605|doi=10.1080/00107514.2011.587535|issn=0010-7514|bibcode=2011ConPh..52..604V|s2cid=118307371}}
{{Cite journal|last=Gudder|first=Stanley P.|date=2001-11-01|title=Book Review: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. By Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2000, i–xxv+676 pp., $42.00 (hardcover)|journal=Foundations of Physics|language=en|volume=31|issue=11|pages=1665–1667|doi=10.1023/a:1012603118140|bibcode=2001FoPh...31.1665G |s2cid=118557951|issn=0015-9018}}
{{Cite journal|last=DiVincenzo|first=David P.|author-link=David DiVincenzo|date=2001|title=Book Review on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information|url=http://www.rintonpress.com/journals/qic-1-2/divinc.pdf|journal=Quantum Information and Computation|volume=1|pages=95–96|doi=10.26421/QIC1.2-5 }}
{{Cite journal|last=Mermin|first=N. David|author-link=N. David Mermin|year=2003|title=From Cbits to Qbits: Teaching computer scientists quantum mechanics|journal=American Journal of Physics|volume=71|issue=1|pages=23–30|arxiv=quant-ph/0207118|doi=10.1119/1.1522741|issn=0002-9505|bibcode=2003AmJPh..71...23M|s2cid=13068252}} It is informally known as "Mike and Ike", after the candies of that name.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYcHDgAAQBAJ|title=Quantum Information Theory|last=Wilde|first=Mark M.|date=2017-02-28|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781316813300|pages=xi-xii|language=en|arxiv=1106.1445|bibcode=2011arXiv1106.1445W|doi=10.1017/9781316809976.001|chapter=Preface to the Second Edition|s2cid=2515538 }}
{{Cite journal|last=Strauch|first=Frederick W.|date=2016-06-21|title=Resource Letter QI-1: Quantum Information|journal=American Journal of Physics|volume=84|issue=7|pages=495–507|doi=10.1119/1.4948608|issn=0002-9505|bibcode=2016AmJPh..84..495S}} The book assumes minimal prior experience with quantum mechanics and with computer science, aiming instead to be a self-contained introduction to the relevant features of both. (Lov Grover recalls a postdoc disparaging it with the remark, "The book is too elementary – it starts off with the assumption that the reader does not even know quantum mechanics."{{Cite journal|last=Grover|first=Lov|author-link=Lov Grover|date=2002-04-12|title=Quantum Computation and Quantum Information|journal=American Journal of Physics|volume=70|issue=5|pages=558–559|doi=10.1119/1.1463744|issn=0002-9505|bibcode=2002AmJPh..70..558N|s2cid=16095702 |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/465953}}) The focus of the text is on theory, rather than the experimental implementations of quantum computers, which are discussed more briefly.{{Cite journal|last=James|first=Daniel F. V.|date=2001-11-01|title=Quantum Computation and Quantum Information|journal=Physics Today|volume=54|issue=11|pages=60–62|doi=10.1063/1.1428442|issn=0031-9228|bibcode=2001PhT....54k..60N|doi-access=free}}

{{asof|2024|December}}, the book has been cited over 58,000 times on Google Scholar.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZP0eZ94AAAAJ&hl=en|title=Michael Nielsen - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2017-11-10}} In 2019, Nielsen adapted parts of the book for his Quantum Country project.{{Cite web

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