The twenty-first century is seeing the emergence of the first truly quantum technologies; that is, technologies that rely on the counter-intuitive properties of individual quantum systems and which can often outperform any conventional technology. Examples include quantum computing, which promises to be much faster than conventional computing for certain problems, and quantum metrology, which promises much more sensitive parameter estimation than that offered by conventional techniques. To realize these promises, it is necessary to understand the measurement and control of quantum systems.

Quantum Measurement and Control by Howard M. Wiseman and Gerard J. Milburn (Cambridge University Press, 2009) is an introduction to quantum measurements with applications, principally to quantum control. It covers recent developments in both theory and experiment, including much previously unpublished material. This website is intended to supplement the material in the book with errata, further reading, conferences etc., to which readers are encouraged to make contributions.