دانلود کتاب شروع کار با محاسبات کوانتومی -مقدمه‌ای بر تحول فناوری و کدنویسی و تأثیر اجتماعی

Quantum computing is currently at the early adopter stage that arguably generative AI, that other enigmatic technology, was at some five years ago – just before we started reading about it and making our first fumbled prompts for ChatGPT. The answers obtained were, as often as not, even more fumbled! In the intervening period large language models (LLMs) have improved exponentially to the point that we can now have a meaningful dialogue on just about any appropriate topic and feel that we are actually speaking to a friendly, albeit well-informed, peer. Of course, such anthropomorphism is largely a mirage, the LLM providing a statistically driven harvest of information that already exists out there, then tying it in a pretty bow to make it sound ‘convincingly’ human. Right now, there is no beautifully intuitive interface for ‘newbies’ to engage with quantum computing in a similarly (pseudo-)conversational manner. With this in mind, there is no shortcut to the spadework of learning some basic terminology and concepts from quantum physics to get to the point of understanding how a quantum bit, or qubit, differs from a ‘conventional’ binary digit, or for understanding how quantum computing, to borrow a phrase from the brewing industry, reaches the parts others cannot reach. It is for this reason that I commend this book, alongside other resources such as from the Open University’s free short course on quantum computing or BCS Quantum Computing specialist group events, to anybody from a STEM background who wishes to inform themselves about this nascent technology.