Quantum Bits and Quantum Secrets

Oliver Morsch, born in 1970, received his Ph.D. in physics from Oxford University in 1999. He then accepted a post as senior researcher at the National Research Council of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter in Pisa, Italy. Dr. Morsch's research interests concentrate on ultracold atoms, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum computers. He works as a freelance science journalist for various newspapers and journals and has published two popular science books with Wiley-VCH.

1 Introduction
2 The Colours of the Rainbow - A Prelude
3 Light, Waves and Oscillations - Some Useful Facts
4 Nature's Currency - The Story of the Quantum
5 Surprising Discoveries - A Glimpse at Quantum Mechanics
6 When Alice Met Bob - The Principles of Quantum Cryptography
7 The Logic of Superpositions - How Quantum Computing Works
8 Shor's Revolution - An Introduction to Quantum Algorithms
9 Promising Prototypes - How Quantum Computers Might Be Built
10 Sensitive States - Why Quantum Error Correction is Important
11 Trying the Impossible - More Quantum Tricks
12 Dream or Reality? - The Past, Present and Future of Quantum Information