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 | ||
17 | 10/21 | Photon Polarization - photon qubits | scan: [pdf, ps] | |
18 | 10/23 | Reversibility, Quantum Circuits | [pdf,ps] (10/29) | |
19 | 10/28 | Quantum Factoring Algorithm | ||
20 | 10/30 | Quantum Search and Limits on Quantum Computation | ||
21 | 11/4 | Quantum Teleportation Experiments | ||
22 | 11/6 | Density matrices, Decoherence | ||
23 | 11/13 | NMR Quantum Computation | ||
24 | 11/18 | Solid State Quantum Comuptation | ||
25 | 11/20 | Quantum Key Distribution | ||
26 | 11/25 | Optical Lattice Quantum Computer | ||
27 | 12/2 | Project Presentations | ||
28 | 12/4 | Dirac Equation |
On quantum computation
Mathematical background
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