Meet the editor

Yongli Zhao received a Ph.D. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, in 2010. He is currently a full professor at the School of Electronic Engineering, BUPT. In 2016–2017, Dr. Zhao was a visiting associate professor at the University of California, Davis. He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and OSA. He has

published more than 400 international journal and conference papers. His current research focuses on optical network security and quantum communications.

Contents

*by Rene Steijl*

Review

*by Graciana Puentes*

*Yuan Cao and Jie Zhang*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 27**

**Chapter 4 35**

**Chapter 5 61**

**Chapter 6 83**

Topology in Photonic Discrete-Time Quantum Walks: A Comprehensive

Introductory Chapter: Quantum Computing and Communications

Quantum Algorithms for Nonlinear Equations in Fluid Mechanics

A Novel Three-Input XOR Gate Based on Quantum Dot-Cellular

*by Ismail Gassoumi, Lamjed Touil and Abdellatif Mtibaa*

*by Surya Teja Marella and Hemanth Sai Kumar Parisa*

Multipoint-Interconnected Quantum Communication Networks *by Qingcheng Zhu, Yazi Wang, Lu Lu, Yongli Zhao, Xiaosong Yu,* 

*by Yongli Zhao, Yazi Wang and Xiaosong Yu*

Automata with Power Dissipation Analysis

Introduction to Quantum Computing
