Announcements

19/10/20 Problem Set 3 is due 4/11/2020.

14/10/20 The midterm exam (online) will be on Wedensday 4/11/2020 from 12:00PM to 1:45PM.

14/10/20 Quiz 3 is on Monday 26/10/2020.

30/9/20 Quiz 2 is on Wedensday 7/10/2020.

18/9/20 Problem set 1 is due Monday 21/9/20 before the class

18/9/20 Quiz 1 is on Monday 21/9/20 using BB

18/9/20 Website is alive!

Course Description

An introduction to the model of quantum computation, quantum processors, quantum circuits and instruction sets, quantum programming languages, quantum Fourier transform, quantum error correction, quantum algorithms, and applications of quantum computing

 

Prerequisites: COE292 (or ICS 102 or ICS 103) and MATH208 (or PHYS210 or MATH225 or MATH 302)

Lecture Notes

Week	Date	Planned Topic
1	31-Aug	Introduction to Course
	2-Sep	Review of complex numbers
2	7-Sep	Review of complext vector space
	9-Sep	Review of complex vector space (cont)
3	14-Sep	Tensor product. Probablistic  Systems
	16-Sep	Quantum systems
4	21-Sep	Quantum systems  (cont.) (Quiz 1)
	23-Sep	No class (National Day)
5	28-Sep	Basic Quantum Theory
	30-Sep	Qubits and Quanutm states
6	5-Oct	Classical and Quantum Gates
	7-Oct	Reversible Gates  (Quiz 2)
7	12-Oct	Quantum Gates
	14-Oct	Quantum Gates (Cont.)
8	19-Oct	Quantum programming languages
	21-Oct	Class Canceled
9	26-Oct	Computer Algorithms
	28-Oct	Cont. (Quiz 3)
10	2-Nov	Cont.
	4-Nov	Midterm Exam
11	9-Nov	Quantum Computing Complexity
	11-Nov	Deutch Algorithm
12	16-Nov	Deutch-Jozsa Algorithm (Quiz 4)
	18-Nov	Cont.
13	23-Nov	Grover's Algorithm
	25-Nov	Shor's Algorithm (Quiz 5)
14	30-Nov	Quantum Error Correction
	2-Dec	Quatnum Internet
15	7-Dec	Quantum Key Distribution (Quiz 6)
	9-Dec	Review