Automatic Quantum Computer Programming: A Genetic Programming Approach [Paperback]

Once realized, the potential of large-scale quantum computers promises to radically transform computer science. Despite large-scale international efforts, however, essential questions about the potential of quantum algorithms are still unanswered. Automatic Quantum Computer Programming is an introduction both to quantum computing for non-physicists and to genetic programming for non-computer-scientists. The book explores several ways in which genetic programming can support automatic quantum computer programming and presents detailed descriptions of specific techniques, along with several examples of their human-competitive performance on specific problems.

This is an introduction both to quantum computing for non-physicists and to genetic programming for non-computer-scientists. The book explores ways in which genetic programming can support automatic quantum computer programming, offering specific techniques in detail, with examples of their human-competitive performance on real-world problems.

This is a book about the frontiers of computer science that have re? cently been opened by work in quantum mechanics, but it is also a book about the use of recently developed automatic programming technolo? gies to explore those frontiers. The automatic programming technologies themselves issue from another interdisciplinary frontier of computer sci? ence  one born of the intersection of computer science with evolution? ary biology. So this is a book about two frontiers of computer science, one being used primarily for the sake of exploring the other. The selection of topics in this book was made with the intention of showing how genetic programming can be usefully applied to certain problems in quantum computing. To this end, it provides a basic intro? duction to quantum computing for non-physicists and it also provides a basic introduction to genetic programming for non-computer-scientists. These treatments should be comprehensible tols,