Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Quantum Computing and Quantum Physics: A Linear Algebra Approach provides a distinctive and accessible introduction to the rapidly growing fields of quantum information science and quantum computing. The book is designed for undergraduate students with little or no background in physics but with some familiarity with linear algebra. Higher education faculty members and secondary school mathematics, physics, and computer science educators who want to learn about quantum computing and perhaps teach a course accessible to students with wide ranging backgrounds will also find the book useful and enjoyable. While broadly accessible, the book does not dodge providing a solid conceptual and formal understanding of quantum states and entanglement—the key ingredients in quantum computing. The authors dish up a hearty meal for the readers, disentangling and explaining many of the classic quantum algorithms that demonstrate how and when quantum computing has an advantage over classical computers. The book is spiced with Try Its, brief exercises that engage the readers and help them digest the many counterintuitive quantum information science and quantum computing concepts. Self-contained chapters on time dependence in quantum mechanics, magnetic resonance, density matrices, simple harmonic oscillator, quantum perturbation theory, and number operators provide a basis for further reading and work in quantum information science and quantum computing.</jats:p>