Three Professors of the Physics Department publish a textbook on Quantum Computation

Nov 04, 2020

Santiago Torres, Pere Bruna (also member of the INTE) and Pietro Massignan, with backgrounds as varied as Astrophysics, Material Science and Quantum Physics, publish a textbook on Quantum Computation, one of the most promising and challenging fields in contemporary science.

Quantum technology is one of the most promising and challenging fields in
contemporary science. Quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and more
generally quantum information technologies promise, in the short term,
to change our paradigm of classical computing and communications.
Abstract concepts such as duality, superposition, entanglement, and
teleportation may seem closer to magic or science fiction than to
everyday human experience. However, these topics play a steeply
increasing role in modern technological applications, and are therefore
more and more frequently included in current syllabuses of many
technological undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

The book consists of a comprehensive list of exercises with increasing
degrees of difficulty. It has been published under UPCGrau Editions 
(https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/327555) and it is oriented toward
undergraduate students pursuing a Bachelor’s Degrees in Engineering. In
particular, it is used as teaching material in the course ‘Quantum
Information Technologies’ within the Bachelor’s Degree of
Telecommunications Engineering at EETAC, and in the course ‘Quantum
Optical Technologies’ which is part of the Bachelor’s Degree in
Engineering Physics.

The authors Santiago Torres, Pere Bruna (also member of the INTE) and
Pietro Massignan, with backgrounds as varied as Astrophysics, Material
Science and Quantum Physics, have a long history of teaching this
subject. With this book they aim to provide the students with an
overview of the present state-of-the-art of the field and the basic
tools to comprehend it, in the hope they will continue delving into the
rapidly evolving and fascinating field of quantum technologies, which
has only just begun to be explored.