Quantum Computing

From Bit to Qbit for Everyone - Quantum Field Theory and Possible Applications

By: Gold Game

Narrated by: Derik Hendrickson

Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

What are quantum computers? Why were they made? Will they soon become common objects?

These are important questions, with complex answers that we will try to reveal with simple words and concepts.

What can a quantum computer do?

If we have a sequence of 30 zeroes and ones, it has about one billion of possible values. However, a classical computer can only be in one of these one billion states at the same time. A quantum computer can be in a quantum combination of all of those states, called superposition.

Quantum field theory

"If you really understood quantum field theory in a proper mathematical way, this would give us answers to many open physics problems, perhaps even including the quantization of gravity.” Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields.

From quantum computing to quantum internet

In this guide, discover the principles and promises behind these developments and how they will impact our future. What you'll learn:

• What is a quantum computer? From theory to practice, from bit to qbit
• The functioning of quantum computers
• The stages of the quantum computer
• IBM's quantum computer
• Google's quantum computer
• The quantum computers of d-wave systems
• Quantum computers and artificial intelligence
• Learn about quantum physics
• Quantum field theory
• Algorithmic complexity
• Church-Turing thesis and Turing test
• The Turing machine
• Schrödinger's wave mechanics
• Schrödinger's cat paradox: dead or alive?
• Richard P. Feynman
• The language difficulty of the quantum computer
• Computer-quantum-quant-anneal
• Practical example to illustrate the quantum annealing mechanism
• Microsoft's version
• The case of China
• What is boson sampling?
• The quantum computer and photons
• From quantum computing to quantum internet
• Applications
• Online cyber security
• Development of new medicines
• Navigation
• Holistic approach

And, much more!

©2021 Gold Game (P)2022 Gold Game

Basic knowledge interesting topic

Terrible editing and some pronunciation issues. Overall good for a beginner level knowledge although there are some very dry parts

Great content, a few mispronunciations

I liked the content. It’s a high-level view of quantum computing and fairly exhaustive at that level. The narrator is likely not a quantum computing scientist given the mispronunciation of vocabulary fundamental to quantum computing.

Too many mistakes in the narration

The narrator needed some prep on pronouncing many of the terms, including “qubit” and “coherence” which are basic as well as fundamental to this book. There are also places where they are clearing their throat or trying various takes on certain words. The editor should have helped this narrator by editing those out. Sigh.

Skip

Either they forgot to edit the audio, or they uploaded the unedited version. It is also somewhat redundant or maybe those parts should have been edited out.

Skip it

The content is easily found through Google as it's to superficial, there's too much filler with the bio section as well.

Besides, there's no edition at all, it's awful to listen the narrator coughing and repeating the same words and phrases over and over; it's not his fault, but this audiobook is pretty bad.

Don't bother

This is some kind of moneymaking scam recording with no production effort or editing and unorganized content that seems copy pasted from other sources. The 5 star reviews are fake/scam reviews. Don't waste your credit.

Neglected and not taken seriously

I have never heard a book on Audible that is this bad. There are certainly nuggets of content worth absorbing, but the performance is embarrassing. If you want to go on an “Easter Egg Hunt”, listen for the barrage of mistakes by the narrator clearing his throat, mispronouncing words - and backing up repeatedly to pronounce the same word alternatively. No one edit typed this out. This audio version is nothing more than an afterthought and the goal was not one of quality, but just checking the box to get it published. Don’t bother listening to this book.

One of the most helpful on the subject

An excellent book for anyone who wants to start understanding quantum computing. Initially I found the approach that does not use complex numbers strange. This may be a simplification to cover a larger audience, but quantum mechanics without complex numbers still strangles me. Even with this initial impression, the book is very didactic for the most part. I will recommend to students who want to get into this fantastic area of quantum computing.

Excellent

This audiobook provides an excellent guideline about Quantum Computing. I am exceptionally inspired by this audiobook since I know such numerous modern things from this audiobook. I'm highly referring to this audiobook for everyone. I found it to be a wonderful book with an amiable tone and lots of interesting information.

Does not worth the money and time

A collection of poorly narrated blog posts.
The author does not do the heavy-lifting job of explaining hard concepts