Weekly Topics Breakdown
| Week | Date | Planned Topic | Material | HW | In-class activities | Quizzes |
| 1 | 8/25/2024 | Introduction to Course - Bits | Slides | |||
| 8/27/2024 | Reversible
gates and Boolean Algebra |
Ch. 1 | ||||
| 8/29/2024 | Classical Gates and Circuits
(Adders) |
Ch. 1 (Lecutre notes) | ||||
| 2 | 9/1/2024 | Reversible gates and 1-qubit | Ch. 1 and 2 (Lecutre notes) | |||
| 9/3/2024 | Superposion | Ch. 2 (Lecutre notes) | ||||
| 9/5/2024 | Complexity classes | Ch. 2 | In-class Discussion |
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| 3 | 9/8/2024 | 1-qubit quantum gates | Ch. 2 (Lecutre notes) | |||
| 9/10/2024 | Quantum Programming | IBM Qiskit +
Xanadu PennyLane + Quantinuum Tket |
In-class Demo | |||
| 9/12/2024 | Quantum Programming | (Lecture notes) | HW 1
TBR |
(1-qubit gate
by Abdullah Aljishi) |
Quiz 1
(Ch. 1& 2) |
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| 4 | 9/15/2024 | Representing quantum states
using Linear Algebra (no class) |
Ch. 3 | Reading
assignment: Chapter 3 |
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| 9/17/2024 | Representing quantum
states using Linear Algebra (no class) |
Ch. 3 | Reading
assignment: Chapter 3 |
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| 9/19/2024 | Representing quantum
states using Linear Algebra (no class) |
Ch. 3 |
Reading assignment: Chapter 3 |
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| 5 | 22/9/2024 | National Day break | ||||
| 9/24/2024 | Multiple
Qubits (recorded class) |
Ch. 4 (Lecture notes) | ||||
| 9/26/2024 | Multiple Qubits | Ch. 4 (Lecture notes) | HW 1 due (deadline extended) |
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| 6 | 9/29/2024 | Multiple Qubits | Ch. 4 (Lecture notes) | |||
| 10/1/2024 | Multiple
Qubits Entanglement and Quantum Protocols |
Ch. 4
and Ch. 6 (Lecture notes) |
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| 10/3/2024 | (No class) | HW 1 due | ||||
| 7 | 10/6/2024 | Entanglement and
Quantum Protocols |
Ch. 6 (Lecture notes) | Quiz 2
(Ch. 3 & 4) |
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| 10/8/2024 | Entanglement and
Quantum Protocols |
Ch. 6 (Lecture notes) | ||||
| 10/10/2024 | Entanglement and
Quantum Protocols |
No class | ||||
| 8 | 10/13/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7
Quantum Algorithms Complexity (Lecture notes) |
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| 10/15/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7
Quantum Oracles, Phase Oracles (Lecture notes) |
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| 10/17/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7:
Parity problem, Deutsch's Algorithm (Lecture notes) |
HW 2
TBR |
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| 9 | 10/20/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7:
Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm (Lecture notes) |
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| 10/22/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7:
Bernstein-Vazirani and Simon's Algorithms (Lecture notes) |
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| 10/24/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7:
Simon's Algorithm (Lecture notes) |
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| 10 | 10/27/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | No class | |||
| 10/29/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7
QFT (Lecture notes) |
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| 10/31/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7
QFT Cont. (Lecture notes) |
HW 2 due |
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| 11 | 11/3/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7
Grover's algorithm By Wael Sulais and Fadel Alubaidi Notes |
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| 11/5/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7
QPE (Lecture notes) |
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| 11/7/2024 | Quantum Algorithms | Ch. 7 |
HW 3
TBR |
Projects description released |
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| 12 | 11/17/2024 | Quantum Algorithms |
Ch. 7 Grover's algorithm using PennyLane by Ali Makky (Lecture) |
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| 11/19/2024 | Applications: HHL and QSVM |
(Lecture slides) Reference: paper |
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| 11/21/2024 | Applications: VQE | (Lecture slides) References: paper |
HW 3 due | |||
| 13 | 11/24/2024 | Applications: QAOA | (Lecture slides) | |||
| 11/26/2024 | Applications: VQAs | Quiz 3 (Ch. 6 & 7) |
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| 11/28/2024 | Quantum Error Correction | |||||
| 14 | 12/1/2024 | No class | Reading assignment = Ch. 4 | |||
| 12/3/2024 | Online class | Ch. 4 | ||||
| 12/5/2024 | Quantum Control and
Measurement |
Handouts |
HW 4
TBR |
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| 15 | 12/8/2024 | Quantum
Control and Measurement |
Handouts | Quiz 4 (TBD) | ||
| 12/10/2024 | Quantum
Control and Measurement |
Handouts | ||||
| 12/12/2024 | Quantum
Control and Measurement |
Handouts | ||||
| 12/15/2024 | Review | HW4 Due | Project discussion
and presentations |
Quiz 5 (TBD) |