Webpage with schedule and lecture notes for Spring semester 2005 can be found here
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The schedule for the project presentations and links to all other project related pages can be found here
Date | Topic | Notes | Date updated | |
1 | 8/30 | Quantum States, Superposition | [pdf,ps] | 09/06 |
2 | 9/01 | Qubits, Measurements, Notation | [pdf,ps] | 09/13 3:47pm |
3 | 9/06 | Unitaries/Gates, Multiqubit and Bell States | [pdf,ps] | 09/08 |
4 | 9/08 | 2 Qubit gates, EPR, Bell inequalities | [pdf,ps] | 09/14 |
5 | 9/13 | Entanglement can facilitate information processing | [pdf,ps] | 09/14 |
6 | 9/15 | No-Cloning, Teleportation | [pdf,ps] | 09/17 |
7 | 9/20 | Superdense Coding, Quantum Cryptography | [pdf,ps] | 09/27 |
8 | 9/22 | Quantum Gates and Universality | [pdf,ps] | 09/25 |
9 | 9/27 | Solovay-Kitaev, Complexity, Reversible Computing | [pdf] | 10/10 |
10 | 9/29 | Circuits, Randomized computation, Deferred measurements | [pdf] | 10/03 |
11 | 10/04 | Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell I | [pdf,ps] | 10/04 |
12 | 10/06 | Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell II | [pdf,ps] | 10/08 |
13 | 10/11 | Uncertainty principle, Spin algebra | [pdf,ps] | 10/12 |
14 | 10/13 | Spin operators, spin measurement, spin initialization | [pdf,ps] | 10/18 |
15 | 10/18 | The Hamiltonian with spin, spin manipulation I (precession) | [pdf,ps] | 10/20 |
16 | 10/20 | Spin manipulation II (resonance), quantum gates for spins |
[pdf] | 10/25 |
17 | 10/25 | Deutsch and Deutsch-Jozsa algorithms | [pdf,ps] | 10/25 |
18 | 10/27 | Quantum Fourier Transform |
[pdf,ps] see also: [pdf] | 10/28 |
19 | 11/01 | Shor's order (period) finding algorithm and factoring | [pdf, ps] | 11/11 |
00 | 11/03 | Midterm Quiz | ||
20 | 11/08 | Quantum phase estimation, eigenvalue calculations | [pdf,ps] | 11/25 |
21 | 11/10 | Grover's quantum search algorithm | [pdf,ps] | 11/16 |
22 | 11/15 | Amplitude amplification, quantum bomb detection | [pdf,ps] | 11/19 |
23 | 11/17 | Quantum random walks, Error correction |
[pdf] see also: [pdf] | 11/17 |
24 | 11/22 | Guest lecture: Si quantum computation | [pdf] | 12/01 |
00 | 11/24 | Thanksgiving - no lecture | ||
25 | 11/29 | Guest lecture: Ion trap quantum computation | [pdf] | 12/02 |
00 | 12/01 | Student presentations | [webpage] | 12/07 |
26 | 12/06 | Guest lecture: Neutral atom quantum computation | [pdf] | 01/09/2006 |
27 | 12/06 | Lecture: The measurement problem, when has a quantum system been measured | [pdf] | 01/09/2006 |
Below are some handouts given out in the Wednesday sections, most of them worksheets with questions designed to (hopefully) increase your understanding of some key concepts of the course and of quantum mechanics in general. Most of them were designed specifically to be used for plenary discussion in section, so if you read them on your own for the first time, you may find them somewhat vague or difficult but hopefully still helpful. Don't hesitate to contact Jan with questions if you want to make sure you are getting the full picture.
9/7: Handout from first section. Contains some practical information about the sections, and then some discussion questions to get you started thinking about some basic questions in quantum mechanics and quantum information.
9/21: State vectors and measurement bases. Discussion questions about the connection between state space bases and measurements, basis changes and change of measurement setup, and what the difference between the quantum and the classical situation really is.
9/28: Why unitary operators? Discussion questions about the role that unitary operators play in quantum mechanics, and why it is important that they be unitary.
10/5: Measurements and entanglement. Some problems that illuminate the connection between measurement and entanglement, why entanglement with an ancilla or other "external" system can destroy intereference, and perhaps some hints about what measurements really are.
10/19: Spin and generators of rotations. Questions that explore what happens to the state of a quantum system when you rotate it, how the operators that effect the rotation are tied to angular momentum, with the goal of trying to understand what intrinsic spin is.
Recommended text for the class:
Recommended alternative text:
Other texts for quantum computation
Mathematical background
On quantum mechanics in general