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Quantum Computing
- From Bit to Qbit for Everyone - Quantum Field Theory and Possible Applications
- Narrated by: Derik Hendrickson
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
What are quantum computers? Why were they made? Will they soon become common objects?
These are important questions, with complex answers that we will try to reveal with simple words and concepts.
What can a quantum computer do?
If we have a sequence of 30 zeroes and ones, it has about one billion of possible values. However, a classical computer can only be in one of these one billion states at the same time. A quantum computer can be in a quantum combination of all of those states, called superposition.
Quantum field theory
"If you really understood quantum field theory in a proper mathematical way, this would give us answers to many open physics problems, perhaps even including the quantization of gravity.” Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields.
From quantum computing to quantum internet
In this guide, discover the principles and promises behind these developments and how they will impact our future. What you'll learn:
- What is a quantum computer? From theory to practice, from bit to qbit
- The functioning of quantum computers
- The stages of the quantum computer
- IBM's quantum computer
- Google's quantum computer
- The quantum computers of d-wave systems
- Quantum computers and artificial intelligence
- Learn about quantum physics
- Quantum field theory
- Algorithmic complexity
- Church-Turing thesis and Turing test
- The Turing machine
- Schrödinger's wave mechanics
- Schrödinger's cat paradox: dead or alive?
- Richard P. Feynman
- The language difficulty of the quantum computer
- Computer-quantum-quant-anneal
- Practical example to illustrate the quantum annealing mechanism
- Microsoft's version
- The case of China
- What is boson sampling?
- The quantum computer and photons
- From quantum computing to quantum internet
- Applications
- Online cyber security
- Development of new medicines
- Navigation
- Holistic approach
And, much more!
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- Spencer
- 07-06-22
Needs proof listing
The content of the book is ok albeit a bit repetitive. I did come away with a greater understanding of the topic.
The audiobook is let down by many mistakes in the editing. The narrator can be heard repeatedly correcting words that should have been edited out. This is terrible for a book that costs over £10.
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- Trym
- 11-02-24
Great book, terrible recording
The book is a very approachable introduction to quantum computing, but the audio engineer seems to have taken the day off. Lots of retakes that aren't edited out, corrections interrupting the narration etc
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- P. Hopewell
- 31-08-22
Good on history, bad on explanation, poor reading.
The book adequately explained the quantum mechanics ideas of superposition and entanglement. It did not really tell me how I could use these ideas to solve a specific problem or to extract an answer from the quantum computer.. It was OK on the history of quantum computing and its potential future. The reading was poor with phrases incorrectly read and then immediately re-read correctly. In some cases I think it was read incorrectly as it did not make sense. Overall disappointing.
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- Gavin
- 22-06-23
there was issues with the recording
this was read by a person who had really bad timing or an ai, there was a lot of sentences repeated that should not have been there. it made listening to the topic more challenging. the book was informative thats about it, nothing special.
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- Om
- 05-10-22
poor recording
information repeated from chapter to chapter with bits changed, as well as not corresponding to statements made beforehand size of machines with qbit usage only so large whilst a commercial available over 20x larger, death of Turing posed as fact poisened himself with apple then posed as a question . recorded coughing and multiple pronunciations of words the reader had difficulty with make a subject I wanted to learn more about, even more difficult to comprehend
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- Andrew
- 15-06-22
Terrible narration!
I could not listen to this audiobook as the narration was terrible. Okay (ish) in the first few chapters, although there are long breaks in the middle of sentences, and the wrong emphasis on words in the sentences, but then we have repeated sentences and mispronunciation of words. At first, I thought this was being read by a very poor quality text-to-speech program, but after the clearing of the throat session in a later chapter, and subsequent rereading of the sustenance, I realised this was actually a human. This seriously needs to be narrated by someone with some reading experience and edited by a professional. It is obvious that the publisher has not listened to this appalling attempt to narrate the text as it totally rubbishes the book.
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- Nemo
- 21-07-22
Mind-numbingly dull
I didn't get past the first chapter; efficient, clear, articulate but robotic narration and lots of equations - probably better to read this one.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-09-24
The book and narration are a mess
There is no clear structure, and the chapters heavily overlapp repeating the same things. Narration is sloppy. Very bad experience overall.
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