Error Correction
Adiabatic QC
Quantum Dots I
Josephson Junction Qubits
Quantum Cryptography
Quantum Simulation
Reversing Quantum Measurements
Quantum Control
Quantum Dots II
Cavity QED
Topic | Notes | ||
1 | 8/28 | Qubits, Measurements | [pdf,ps] |
2,3 | 9/2, 9/4 | Bell States, Bell Inequalities | [pdf,ps] |
4 | 9/9 | Physical Qubits | [pdf] |
5 | 9/11 | No Cloning Theorem & Teleportation | [pdf,ps] |
6,7 | 9/16, 9/18 | Teleportation & Bell Inequalities | notes from lectures 2 & 5. |
8 | 9/23 | Observables, Hamiltonian, Schrodinger's Eqn | [pdf,ps] |
9 | 9/25 | Continuous quantum states, particle on a line, uncertainty relations | [pdf,ps] |
10 | 9/30 | Representations and Wavefunctions | [pdf] |
11 | 10/02 | Particle-in-a-box, Spin | [pdf] |
12 | 10/07 | Spin measurements, initialization, manipulation by precession | [pdf] |
00 | 10/09 | Midterm Quiz #1 | |
13 | 10/14 | Spin manipulation by resonance | [pdf] |
14 | 10/16 | Spin rotation subtleties, Spin entanglement | [pdf] |
15 | 10/21 | Tensor products, 2 qubit gates with coupled spins | [pdf] |
16 | 10/23 | 5 criteria for qu comp, Universal gate sets | [pdf] |
17 | 10/28 | Extended Church Turing Thesis | [pdf] |
18&19 | 10/30&11/4 |
Chapter 2 Fast Fourier Transform, and
Chapter 10 Quantum Factoring Algorithm | [book ] |
20 | 11/6 | NP-complete problems and quantum search | [pdf] |
00 | 11/13 | Midterm Quiz #2 | |
21 | 11/18 | Mixed states, density matrix, decoherence | [pdf] |
22 | 11/20 | Quantum Error Correction | [pdf] |
23 | 11/25 | Guest Lecture - QC with Ion Traps | [pdf] |
24 | 12/02 | Guest Lecture - Silicon-based QC | [pdf] |
On quantum computation
Mathematical background
On quantum mechanics in general