Date | Topic | Notes |
8/29 | States and measurement | [pdf] |
9/3 | Entangled states, density matrices, Hermitian operators, commutators, functions of operators | [pdf] |
9/5 | Spins and the Bloch Sphere | [pdf] |
9/10 | Spin resonance | [pdf] |
9/12 | Two qubit gates, the circuit model, teleportation | [pdf] |
9/17 | Computational complexity, superdense coding and the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm | [pdf] |
9/24 | Measurement | [pdf] |
10/1 | Generalized measurement, partial trace, and distance in state space | [pdf] |
10/3 | Foundations, EPR and Bell's theorem | [pdf] |
10/8, 10/10 | Introduction to quantum key distribution | [pdf] |
10/15 | Open quantum systems: quantum process formulation | [pdf] |
10/17 | Open quantum systems: Hamiltonian formulation and master equations | [pdf] |
10/22 | Error suppression and prevention techniques | [pdf] |
10/24 | Introduction to quantum error correction | [pdf] |
10/29 | Fault tolerance and the threshold theorem | [pdf] |
10/31 | Grover's Algorithm | [pdf part 1] [pdf part 2] |
11/5 | Quantum Fourier Transforms | [pdf] |
11/7 | Quantum phase estimation, finding eigenvalues | [pdf] |
11/12 | Shor's period (order) finding algorithm and factoring | [pdf] |
11/14 | Guest Lecture: Superconducting Qubits - Irfan Siddiqi | [pdf] |
11/19 | Guest Lecture: Trapped Ion Qubits - Hartmut Haeffner | [pdf] |
11/21 | Entanglement Measures | [pdf] |
On quantum computation
Mathematical background
On quantum mechanics in general