• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

By Root 1546 0

Deutsch, Hugh Everett, Chris Isham, Roger Penrose, John Smolin, Lee Smolin, John Archibald Wheeler, and others. The professional literature on quantum information theory, quantum gravity, spinfoam, the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and associated concepts is, of course, vast. What follows is a brief list of books and articles that were particularly helpful during the writing of Spin State.

These sources range from popular introductions to professional literature. I hesitate to steer readers toward one end or another of the spectrum; there are many concepts (quantum-teleportation comes to mind) for which the clearest and simplest explanation really is in the professional literature. For incorrigible mathophobes, however, I have marked equation-free texts with an asterisk (*).

Quantum Physics Generally1

John Stuart Bell. Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

M. Bell, K. Gottfried, M. Veltman, eds. John S. Bell on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2001.

*Jeremy Bernstein. Quantum Profiles. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991.

*Barbara Lovett Cline. The Questioners: Physicists and the Quantum Theory. New York: Crowell, 1965.

*Robert P. Crease and Charles C. Mann. The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Ian Duck, E. C. G. Sudarshan. 100 Years of Planck’s Quantum. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2000.

David K. Ferry. Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction for Device Physicists and Electrical Engineers, 2nd Ed. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001.

*Richard P. Feynman. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985.

*Richard P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965.

A. P. French, P. J. Kennedy, eds. Niels Bohr, A Centenary Volume. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.

*Murray Gell-Mann. The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1995.

*Adrian Kent. “Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist,” in Visions of the Future: Physics and Electronics, ed. J. Michael T. Thompson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

*Gerard Milburn. Schrödinger’s Machines: The Quantum Technology Reshaping Everyday Life. New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1997.

B. L. Van der Waerden. Sources of Quantum Mechanics. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1967.

Quantum Information Theory

(EPR, Quantum Cryptography, and Quantum Computing)2

*Amir D. Aczel. Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.

A. Aspect, J. Dalibard, and G. Roger. “Experimental Test of Bell’s Inequalities Using Time-Varying Analyzers,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 49 (25), 1804 (1982).

J. S. Bell, “On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox,” Physics, 1–3, 195 (1964).

C. H. Bennett, “Classical and Quantum Information: Similarities and Differences,” Frontiers in Quantum Physics, eds. S. C. Lim, R. Abd-Shukor, K. H. Kwek. Singapore: Springer-Verlag, 1998.

C. H. Bennett, “Quantum Cryptography Using Any Two Nonorthogonal States,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 68(21), 3121 (1992).

C. H. Bennett, S. J. Weisner, “Communication via One- and Two-Particle Operators on EPR States,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 69(20), 2881 (1992).

C. H. Bennett, G. Brassard, C. Crépeau, R. Jozsa, A. Peres, and W. K. Wootters, “Teleporting an Unknown Quantum State via Dual Classical and EPR Channels,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 70(13), 1895 (1993).

*C. H. Bennett, G. Brassard, C. Crépeau, R. Jozsa, A. Peres, and W. K. Wootters, “Quantum Cryptography,” Scientific American, Oct. 1992, p. 50.

C. H. Bennett, “Quantum Information and Computation,” Physics Today 48(10), 24 (1995).

C. H. Bennett, D. P. DiVicenzo, J. A. Smolin, “Capacities of Quantum Erasure Channels,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 78(16), 3217 (1997).

N. Bohr, “Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?” Phys. Rev. 48,