"The book fills a gap between the turgid prose of the burgeoning research literature and the superficial accounts in the popular press." Nature, 1999 "The concepts introduced in this book and the forecast of future directions provided should continue to provide a good primer for the exciting breakthrough anticipated in this field." Mathematics Abstracts, 2001
Contents: Basic Elements of Quantum Information Technology (T P Spiller) The Joy of Entanglement (S Popescu & D Rohrlich) Quantum Information and Its Properties (R Jozsa) Quantum Cryptology (H-K Lo) Experimental Quantum Cryptography (H Zbinden) Quantum Computation: An Introduction (A Barenco) Quantum Error Correction (A M Steane) Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation (J Preskill) Quantum Computers, Error-Correction and Networking: Quantum Optical Approaches (T Pellizzari) Quantum Computation with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (I L Chuang) Future Directions for Quantum Information Theory (C H Bennett)