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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Moriarty was born in 1968 and has lived in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Chris has worked—though not necessarily in the following order—as a ranch hand, horse trainer, backcountry guide, freelance editor, and lawyer.
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1 The original articles of Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Dirac, et al. make for fascinating reading. For those interested in reading these articles in their original form, I strongly recommend Duck and Sudarshan’s 100 Years of Planck’s Quantum, which presents the major publications accompanied by annotations and explanations aimed at today’s physics students. A number of the early articles are far more accessible when read with this book in hand.
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2The best introduction to quantum information theory, for readers willing to stumble through college-level physics problems (or at least try), is Nielsen and Chuang. Readers interested in the ideas but not necessarily the math should look to Deutsch, Brown, or Williams and Clearwater.
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3The original Many-Worlds article, though the longer explanation in Everett’s thesis has since been reprinted in De Witt and Graham, 1973.
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SPIN STATE
A Bantam Spectra Book / October 2003
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