Quantum Information

Lucian M. Ionescu

In this presentation we expand on the topics discussed in the presentation with the same title (Part I): the Quantum Information viewpoint on Biological systems and what life is, with implications to different areas of study and practices, including alternative medicine, music as an approach to healing etc. The new paradigm in science, brought by progress in the Theory of Quantum Information, can by encoded in the symbolic equation “QI=qi”, i.e. quantum information is chi/qi. The presentation is not meant to be technical, but rather informative, providing “food for thought”.

P. L. Knight, Stefan Scheel

Frederick W. Strauch

This Resource Letter surveys the history and modern developments in the field of quantum information. It is written to guide advanced undergraduates, beginning graduate students, and other new researchers to the theoretical and experimental aspects of this field. The topics covered include quantum states and processes, quantum coding and cryptography, quantum computation, the experimental implementation of quantum information processing, and the role of quantum information in the fundamental properties and foundations of physical theories.

F. De Martini, Christopher R. Monroe

This Fermi Summer School of Physics on Experimental Quantum Information and Computing represents a primer in an expanding area in physics. In this part, the interest in quantum information (QI) science is due to the discovery that a computer operating on quantum mechanical principles can solve certain important computational problems exponentially faster than any conceivable classical computer. But this interest is also due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field: the rapid growth is attributable, in part, to the stimulating confluence of researchers and ideas from physics, chemistry, mathematics, information theory, and computer science. The lectures cover Quantum Information (QI) processing, spanning quantum optics and laser physics, atomic and molecular physics, physical chemistry, and condensed-matter physics.

Michel Le Bellac