Benjamin Schumacher is Professor of Physics at Kenyon College. He coined the term 'qubit' and invented quantum data compression, among other contributions to quantum information theory. Michael D. Westmoreland is Professor of Mathematics at Denison University. Trained as an algebraist, for many years he has researched nonstandard logics, models of computation, and quantum information theory.

'This is a fantastic book, with one of the authors no less than the very inventor of the word and idea of a qubit. When I opened the book for the first time, I found I couldn't stop reading through it and working out some of the problems. … There's no book out there I would recommend more for learning the mechanics of this quantum world.' Chris Fuchs, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

• 1. Bits and quanta; 2. Qubits; 3. States and observables; 4. Distinguishability and information; 5. Quantum dynamics; 6. Entanglement; 7. Information and ebits; 8. Density operators; 9. Open systems; 10. A particle in space; 11. Dynamics of a free particle; 12. Spin and rotation; 13. Ladder systems; 14. Many particles; 15. Stationary states in 1-D; 16. Bound states in 3-D; 17. Perturbation theory; 18. Quantum information processing; 19. Classical and quantum entropy; 20. Error correction; Appendixes; Index.