Category talk:Handbook of Quantum Information

Suggested structure of an item in the handbook (although some entries need not be like this)

1st paragraph should be understandable by the general public. No jargon!
Next bit could give more detail, and understandable by an undergrad in physics.
Next bit, could be for a graduate student, who is trying to get into the field.
Final sections could be just some results for experts working in the field.

In general, use as little jargon as possible -- specialised language is probably the biggest barrier to understanding.

use <math> </math> tags to write math equations in latex. or <amsmath> </amsmath> tags to write big math equations in latex.

use the tags {{FromWikipedia}} to say that an item is taken from the wikipedia. And there are many good articles which can be taken!

To indicate that an article is a stub, and that others should add to it, just use insert this: {{stub}}

use the tag: [[Category:Quantum algorithms]] (for example) to say what catagory your item is for (and you can include many).
In general, one should inlcude [[Category:Handbook of Quantum Information]], as one of the catagories

A list of catagories from wikipedia can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Quantum_information_science

To check that an article has not been already written go here http://cam.qubit.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Allpages

You can use the tag #REDIRECT [[blah]] as the only item in the article titled "The blah" so that someone who goes to "The blah" will be redirected to "blah".

Case sensitivty is a pain. In general, capitalise the first letter but not the rest of the letters in a title/link

If you have any new keywords, add them to the main handbook page (which will get cleaned up before we go live) http://cam.qubit.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Handbook_of_Quantum_Information

You can use the tag ==See Also=== to create a See Also section, if your article is related to others.

You can highlight key words which you hope others will fill in using [[blah]]

You can create references using <ref></ref> and <bibliography></bibliography> just as if you were using bibtex. There is a database here http://cam.qubit.org/wiki/index.php/Special:References which hopefully will be made more useful at some point.

Below is a list of who is overseeing what categories

1. Mathematical structure (BG)
2. Quantum states (DK)

  5. Distance measures between states (RK)

1. Evolution and operations (DK)

  2. Channels (CP maps) DK
  3. The Church of the larger Hilbert space DK
  4. Measurements and preparations DK

1. Entanglement (MC)

  4. Entanglement measures 4H
  5. Bound entanglement 4H

1. Quantum information theory (JO)
2. Quantum communication (GB)
3. Quantum cryptography (RR)

  4. Secure two party classical computation: overview (RC)

1. Quantum computation (DO)
2. Quantum algorithms (LI)
3. Physical realisations (DO)