From Classical to Quantum Shannon Theory

Livro digital

Título:
From Classical to Quantum Shannon Theory

Autor:
Mark M. Wilde

Categoria:
Tecnologia > IA

Doador:
Raffaello D. N.

Sinopse:
Shannon gave us a theory of classical communication; Mark Wilde extends it into the quantum world without abandoning its spirit. This book—a draft of the second edition of Quantum Information Theory—walks the reader from classical data compression and channel capacity through the full machinery of quantum Shannon theory: entanglement-assisted capacities, trade-off regions, and protocols that leverage coherent communication to outperform classical limits. The structure is deliberately pedagogical. Part I reviews classical Shannon theory as a scaffold, Part II rebuilds quantum theory from the ground up with qubits, channels, and purification, and later parts ascend through unit protocols, spectral methods, and network information theory. Each section is self-contained enough to be read independently, yet the cumulative architecture rewards a linear reading through the full hierarchy of results. While mathematically demanding, the prose is clear and the examples are concrete—Wilde knows when a well-chosen protocol reveals more than a page of derivations. For a developer or engineer interested in the information-theoretic foundations of quantum computing and communication, this book is a rigorous but navigable entry point into a field that reframes what it means to transmit information.