References & Sources

Quantum Games Full Text
Taking advantage of quantum effects to attain a winning edge

Theorists studying quantum computation offer new perspectives on coin tossing, chess, and game theory.

References:

Eisert, J., M. Wilkens, and M. Lewenstein. 1999. Quantum games and quantum strategies. Physical Review Letters 83(Oct. 11):3077.

Meyer, D.A. 1999. Quantum strategies. Physical Review Letters 82(Feb. 1):1052.

Further Readings:

Bower, B. 1998. Yours, mine, and ours. Science News 153(March 28):205.

Buhrman, H., R. Cleve, and A. Wigderson. Preprint. Quantum vs. classical communication and computation. Available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9802040.

Deutsch, D., and A. Ekert. 1998. Quantum computation. Physics World (March):47.

Peterson, I. 1998. Playing your cards right. Science News 154(July 18):40.

______. 1998. Starting up quick quantum searches. Science News 153(April 18):244.

______. 1997. Silicon champions of the game. Science News 152(Aug. 2):76.

______. 1997. Divide and conquer for quantum computers. Science News 151(June 14):367.

______. 1997. Computer triumphs over human champion. Science News 151(May 17):300.

______. 1996. Quantum-quick queries. Science News 150(Aug. 31):143.

______. 1996. Formulas for fairness. Science News 150(May 4):284.

______. 1996. The soul of a chess machine. Science News 149(March 30):200.

______. 1996. Bits of uncertainty. Science News 149(Feb. 10):90.

______. 1995. Quantum bits. Science News 147(Jan. 14):30.

______. 1994. Opening a quantum door on computing. Science News 145(May 14):308.

______. 1989. Quantum baseball. Science News 136(Aug. 5):88.

Weiss, P. 1999. Quantum Internet. Science News 155(April 3):220.

An introduction to quantum game-tree searching can be found at http://www.voicenet.net/~aaronson/gametree.html.

Sources:

David Deutsch
University of Oxford
Centre for Quantum Computation
Oxford OX1 3PU
United Kingdom
Web site: http://www.qubit.org/

Jens Eisert
University of Potsdam
Quantum Theory Group
Institute for Physics
D-14469 Potsdam
Germany
Web site: http://www.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de/JE/hello.page.html

Lov K. Grover
Lucent Technologies
Physics Research Lab
1D435 Bell Labs
700 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Web site: http://www.bell-labs.com/~lkgrover/

David A. Meyer
University of California, San Diego
Project in Geometry and Physics
Department of Mathematics
La Jolla, CA 92093-0112
Web site: http://math.ucsd.edu/~dmeyer/research.html

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 21, November 20, 1999, p. 334. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.