Topological Quantum Computing: Making Quantum Computers Robust by Manipulating Quantum Bits in Topological Quantum Fields

by Hugo de Garis

Quantum computers promise to offer exponentially superior computing capacities but there are no large scale quantum computers today due to the "decoherence" problem. However, non Abelian anyons (quasi particles) have recently been shown to have the required properties in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE) to be able to implement topological quantum computing (TQC). Hence in a few years, all computer science departments around the world will have to teach TQC principles such is the importance of the performance superiority of quantum computers as opposed to classical computers. Topological Quantum Computing is the first book of its kind, dealing with mathematical, physics and computing principles needed to understand TQC, which will revolutionize both computer science and its teaching.

500 pages, Hardcover

First published January 30, 2015