Quantum Computing page at York: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/quantum/links.htm Introduction to Quantum Computing and Communication, by Black et al. "intended to give general scientists (not computer scientists or physicists) a feeling for how things work." http://xsun.sdct.itl.nist.gov/~black/Papers/quantumCom.html Quantum Information Science, QIS, by Michael Nielsen, Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005C8BF-1B88-1D9B-815A809EC5880000 Scientific American on "spintronics" (QM Computing Electronics) http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0007A735-759A-1CDD-B4A8809EC588EEDF The Quest for the Spin Transistor, IEEE online, dec 2001 http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/dec01/spin.html When will QM Computing become a reality? http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19097.html IBM scientists announce they have implemented Shor's algorithm for QM factoring, to solve 15 = 3 * 5. Chuang et al http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/science/20QUAN.html http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49268,00.html Up to 80 qubits by Ertmer & Birkl http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1280667 June 1998 Sci Am article by Gershenfield and Chuang http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/publications/papers/98.06.sciam/0698gershenfeld.html Previous record by Knill/Laflamme at Los Alamos http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/science/27QUAN.html QM Computers will be hard to build http://physicsweb.org/article/world/15/8/2 QM Computation, University of Oxford http://www.qubit.org/ NIST, US QM Computing Laboratory Center http://qubit.nist.gov/ Will QM Computation have its own Moore's Law? http://www.qubyte.com/ From cbits to qbits: Teaching Computer Scientsits Quantum Mechanics by David Mermin http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207118/ Introduction to QM Computing for Nonphysicists, by Rieffel and Polak http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9809016/ Quantum Physics and Computers By: Adriano Barenco http://www.ennui.net/~quantum/papers/QuantumComputing.ps.gz Machines, Logic & Quantum Physics, 1999 by David Deutsch, Artur Ekert, Rossella Lupacchini http://www.arxiv.org/abs/math.HO/9911150/ "One Complexity Theorists View of Quantum Computing, by Fortnow (2000) http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/289726.html The Square Root of Not, by Brian Hayes, 1995 http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/comsci95/compsci95-07.html Zdzislaw Meglicki's course notes at Indiana http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/B679/ John Preskill's course notes at Caltech http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/ David Mermin's course notes at Cornell http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~mermin/qcomp/CS483.html ========================================================================== http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005C8BF-1B88-1D9B-815A809EC5880000 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qm2/message/3008/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theory-edge/message/6090 ==========================================================================