The Quantum Internet

Produktbeschreibung

Highly interdisciplinary overview of the emerging topic of the Quantum Internet, covering current and future quantum technologies. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Introduction: 1. Foreword; 2. Introduction. Part II. Classical Networks:
3. Mathematical representation of networks; 4. Network topologies; 5. Network
algorithms. Part III. Quantum Networks: 6. Quantum channels; 7. Optical encoding
of quantum information; 8. Errors in quantum networks; 9. Quantum cost vector
analysis; 10. Routing strategies; 11. Interconnecting and interfacing quantum
networks; 12. Optical routers; 13. Optical stability in quantum networks. Part
IV. Protocols for the Quantum Internet: 14. State preparation; 15. Measurement;
16. Evolution; 17. High-level protocols. Part V. Entanglement Distribution: 18.
Entanglement - The ultimate quantum resource; 19. Quantum repeater networks; 20.
The irrelevance of latency; 21. The quantum Sneakernet(TM). Part VI. Quantum
Cryptography: 22. What is security?; 23. Classical cryptography; 24. Attacks on
classical cryptography; 25. Bitcoin and the blockchain; 26. Quantum
cryptography; 27. Attacks on quantum cryptography. Part VII. Quantum Computing:
28. Models for quantum computation; 29. Quantum algorithms. Part VIII. Cloud
Quantum Computing: 30. The Quantum Cloud(TM); 31. Encrypted cloud quantum
computation. Part IX. Economics and Politics: 32. Classical-equivalent
computational power and computational scaling functions; 33. Per-qubit
computational power; 34. Time-sharing; 35. Economic model assumptions; 36.
Network power; 37. Network value; 38. Rate of return; 39. Market
competitiveness; 40. Cost of computation; 41. Arbitrage-free time-sharing model;
42. Problem size scaling functions; 43. Quantum computational leverage; 44.
Static computational return; 45. Forward contract pricing model; 46. Political
leverage; 47. Economic properties of the qubit marketplace; 48. Economic
implications; 49. Game theory of the qubit marketplace. Part X. Essays: 50. The
era of quantum supremacy; 51. The global virtual quantum computer; 52. The
economics of the quantum internet; 53. Security implications of the global
quantum internet; 54. Geostrategic quantum politics; 55. The quantum ecosystem.
Part XI. The End: 56. Conclusion. References. Index. 

Autoreninfo

Peter P. Rohde is an ARC Future Fellow & Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Quantum Software & Information at the University of Technology, Sydney. His theoretical proposals have inspired several world-leading experimental efforts in optical quantum information processing.