Quantum information and computing

Spring 2007

Course: 53744 Quantum information and computing (3 sw, 5 sp) 17.1.2007-2.5.2007

Lectures

Lectures on wednesdays 14-16 in D106
Academy research fellow Jani Martikainen
First lecture: Wednesday, Jan 17.
Last lecture: Wednesday, May 2^th

Course description

Course evaluation:

Final Exam on Tuesday 8.5 13-17:00 at lecture hall D101

Click here for the results of the Final examination on 8.5...

Lectures/notes

1. Lecture 1:Introduction and overview of the course +practical issues
2. Lecture 2: Basic Quantum mechanics
3. Lecture 3: Density operators, Bell's inequality
4. Lecture 4: Intro into computer science and circuits
5. Lecture 5: Quantum circuits continues
6. Lecture 6: Universal gates and Quantum simulation
7. Lecture 7: Quantum Fourier Tranformation
8. Lecture 8: Quantum Fourier Tranformation and factoring
9. Lecture 9: Quantum search algorithm
10. Lecture 10: Physical realization of a quantum computer
11. Lecture 11: Quantum noise and quantum operations
12. Lecture 12: Error-correction
13. Lecture 13: Quantum information
    

Exercises:

• roughly every second week
• 1/3  of the grade
• no special exercise session, return before 17:15 on monday before the wednesday lecture (leave the solutions to lecturers mailbox in the 3rd floor...)

1. Exercise 1 from the Lecture 2
2. Exercise 2 from the Lecture 4
3. Exercise 3 from the Lecture 6
4. Exercise 4 from the Lecture 8
5. Exercise 5 from the Lecture 10: return before 17:15 on tuesday 10.4
6. Exercise 6 from the Lecture 12: return before 10:00 on wednesday 2.5

Literature

• M. A. Nielsen and I. L. Chuang: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
  

• John Preskill lecture notes in the web http://www.theory.caltech.edu/%7Epreskill/ph219/index.html\#lecture
•  course lecture notes from this page...most likely quite compressed
  
•  web, look for reviews (xxx.lanl.gov)
  

Last updated: May 2, 2007.