1st Edition

Introduction to Quantum Information Processing

By Eduardo R. Mucciolo Copyright 2026
264 Pages 3 Color & 80 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

264 Pages 3 Color & 80 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

264 Pages 3 Color & 80 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book introduces quantum computing and quantum communications at the undergraduate level for students in the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics, assuming no prior knowledge of quantum mechanics. It is a self-contained guide assuming only that the reader is familiar with physics at the college level, calculus (up to and including ordinary differential equations), and some matrix... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Basics of Quantum Phenomena

Chapter 3 The Language of Quantum Mechanics

Chapter 4 Quantum Mechanics

Chapter 5 Qubits, Gates, and Circuits

Chapter 6 Basic Quantum Algorithms

Chapter 7 Quantum Information: Limits and Possibilities

Chapter 8 Quantum Fourier Transform and Applications

Chapter 9 Quantum Search and Applications

Chapter 10 Density Matrices and Their Uses

Chapter 11 Quantum Error Correction  

Chapter 12 Alternative Forms of Quantum Computing

Chapter 13 Quantum Communication

Chapter 14 Quantum Sensing

Chapter 15 Physical Realizations of Qubits

Appendix A _ Practicalities

Appendix B _ Qiskit 

Appendix C _ Complexity Classes

Biography

Eduardo R. Mucciolo is a Professor of Physics at the University of Central Florida, USA, which he joined in 2004 after faculty positions at PUC in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and at Duke University in the USA. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. His areas of research are theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum information processing. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.