Quantum Communications

Gianfranco Cariolaro was born in 1936 and graduated in Electrical Engineering at the University of Padova (Italy) in1960. He received the Libera Docenza in Electrical Communication in 1968 and was appointed full professor in 1975. Presently he is Professor Emeritus of Optical and Quantum Communications at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova. His main research interests are in the fields of data transmission, cellular radios, deep space communications, optical and quantum communications, He is the author of several books, in particular Unified Signal Theory (Springer, 2011) and has cooperated with several industries, among them: Telettra (now Alcatel-Lucent), Italtel, RAI (the Italian broadcasting company), Hewlett-Packard, Snell and Wilcox, BBC, ST Microelectronics, Philips, Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, Eutelsat.

• Introduction.- Vector and Hilbert Spaces.- Elements of Quantum Mechanics.- Elements of Quantum Mechanics.- Quantum Decision Theory.- Quantum Telecommunications Systems.- Quantum Telecommunications Systems with Thermal Noise.- Implementation of Quantum Telecommunications Systems.- Quantum Information with Continuous States.- Quantum Information with Discrete States.

"The present book appears as a very nice introduction to quantum communication theories for students of electrical engineering and communication sciences. It also may serve researchers as starting reference to head into new fields of communication theory." (Gisbert Janssen, zbMATH 1323.81002, 2015)