Schrödinger's Killer App: Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer

By Jonathan P. Dowling

Written by a renowned quantum physicist closely involved in the U.S. government's development of quantum information science, this book presents an inside look at the government's quest to build a quantum computer capable of solving complex mathematical problems and hacking the public-key encryption codes used to secure the Internet. The "killer app" refers to Shor's quantum factoring algorithm, which would unveil the encrypted communications of the entire Internet if a quantum computer could be built to run the algorithm. Schr dinger's notion of quantum entanglement-and his infamous cat-is at the heart of it all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439896739
• ISBN13: 9781439896730
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"