Introduction to the Physics of Information

James Pinfold FRSC is a professor of physics at the University of Alberta and a visiting professor at King's College London. He obtained a BSc (Honours) and an Associateship of the Royal College of Science from Imperial College London in 1972. He gained his PhD at University College London in 1977 as a member of CERN's Gargamelle Collaboration team that discovered the first hard evidence for the unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces. Pinfold is currently spokesman for the MoEDAL-LHC experiment, and co-spokesman of the SLIM astroparticle experiment at Mt Chacaltaya in Bolivia. He is also a founding member of the ATLAS-LHC Experiment at CERN and has made several major contributions to the hardware and physics performance of the experiment. ATLAS recently observed a new particle thought to be the Higgs boson. In the USA he co-led a team that made the "first observations" of exclusive physics as a member of the CDF-Tavatron collaboration at Fermilab near Chicago. Prior to this Pinfold was a founding member of the OPAL collaboration that performed unprecedented tests of the Standard Model at CERN's LEP Collider. At that time he became the youngest ever leader of an international collider experiment, MODAL, designed to search for direct production of the magnetic monopole production at LEP. He has authored or coauthored nearly 1000 citeable papers with an average citation count per paper of 67.

Introduction. The Origins of Information Theory. Classical Information. Classical Computing. Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics. Qubits and their Realization. Quantum Non-locality - Quantum Entanglement. Quantum Information Theory. Quantum Computation. Quantum Algorithms. Quantum Cryptography. Physical Realizations of Quantum Computers. Entropy, Information and Life .