Topic | Notes (modified) | |||
1 | 8/26 | Qubits, Measurements | [pdf,ps] (8/30) | |
2 | 8/28 | Bell States, Bell Inequalities | [pdf,ps] (8/30) | |
3 | 9/2 | Hilbert Spaces, Tensor Products | [pdf,ps] (9/4) | |
4 | 9/4 | Unitary Evolution, No Cloning Theorem, Superdense Coding | [pdf,ps] (9/6) | |
5 | 9/9 | Universal Gate Sets, Schrödinger's Equation, Quantum Teleportation | [pdf,ps] (9/15) | |
6 | 9/11 | operators, Physical Postulates, Hamiltonians | [pdf,ps] (9/20) | |
7 | 9/16 | Planck-Einstein,Schrödinger eq., position/momentum reps., deBroglie | [pdf,ps] (9/22) | |
8 | 9/18 | Uncertainty relations, r and p operators, free particle SE, particle-on-ring SE | [pdf,ps] (9/26) | |
9 | 9/23 | Introduction to Spin - Magnetic Moment | scan:[pdf,ps] | |
10 | 9/25 | Spin Properties, Angular Momentum | [pdf,ps] (10/2) | |
11 | 9/30 | Manipulating Spins, B-fields |
[pdf,ps] (10/6)
scan: [pdf,ps] | |
12 | 10/2 | Spin Precession |
[pdf,ps] (10/7) scan: [pdf,ps] | |
13 | 10/7 | Spin resonance, 2-slit expt., entanglement | scan: [pdf,ps] | |
14 | 10/9 | Atoms as 2-level Systems | scan: [pdf,ps] | |
15 | 10/14 | Atoms and Photons - atomic qubits | scan: [pdf,ps] | |
16 | 10/16 | Midterm Quiz Topics: [pdf,ps] Mean 54.2, StDev 16.8 Solutions: [pdf,ps] | ||
17 | 10/21 | Photon Polarization - photon qubits | scan: [pdf,ps] | |
18 | 10/23 | Reversibility, Quantum Circuits | [pdf,ps] (10/29) | |
19 | 10/28 | Quantum Fourier Transform |
[pdf,ps] (12/3)
scan: [pdf,ps] | |
20 | 10/30 | Quantum Factoring Algorithm | scan: [pdf,ps] | |
21 | 11/4 | Quantum Teleportation Experiments |
scan: [pdf,ps]
Nature | |
22 | 11/6 | Density matrices, Decoherence | scan: [pdf] (11/12) | |
23 | 11/13 | NMR Quantum Computation: guest lecturer Thaddeus Ladd, Stanford |
outline: [pdf] slides: [pdf] (11/13) | |
24 | 11/18 | Silicon-based Quantum Computation: guest lecturer Thomas Schenkel, LBNL | slides: [pdf] (11/19) | |
25 | 11/20 | Quantum Key Distribution: guest lecturer Richard Hughes, LANL |
slides: [pdf] (12/2)
supplementary material: [pdf] | |
26 | 11/25 | Optical Lattice Quantum Computer: guest lecturer Jiri Vala, UCB | slides: [pdf] (11/27) | |
27 | 12/2 | Project Presentations | ||
28 | 12/4 | Dirac Equation |
On quantum computation
Mathematical background
On quantum mechanics in general