Eduardo R. Mucciolo is a Professor of Physics at the University of Central Florida, USA, which he joined in 2004 after faculty positions at PUC in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and at Duke University in the USA. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. His areas of research are theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum information processing. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Basics of Quantum Phenomena

Chapter 3 The Language of Quantum Mechanics

Chapter 4 Quantum Mechanics

Chapter 5 Qubits, Gates, and Circuits

Chapter 6 Basic Quantum Algorithms

Chapter 7 Quantum Information: Limits and Possibilities

Chapter 8 Quantum Fourier Transform and Applications

Chapter 9 Quantum Search and Applications

Chapter 10 Density Matrices and Their Uses

Chapter 11 Quantum Error Correction

Chapter 12 Alternative Forms of Quantum Computing

Chapter 13 Quantum Communication

Chapter 14 Quantum Sensing

Chapter 15 Physical Realizations of Qubits

Appendix A _ Practicalities

Appendix B _ Qiskit

Appendix C _ Complexity Classes