QCQI Lecture Coverage

Week 1

• Tuesday, August 29, Course intro; Measures of information
• Thursday, August 31, Thermodynamics of information

Week 2

• Tuesday, Sept. 5, Qubits (photon, spin, atom)
• Thursday, Sept. 7, Homework 1 discussion; Hilbert space, X and Z basis sets, operators (read SW ch. 3.1-3)

Week 3

• Tuesday, Sept. 12, Expectation values and measurement (read SW ch. 3.4-5)
• Thursday, Sept. 14, Homework 2 discussion. Communication, cryptography and bit commitment (read SW ch. 4)

Week 4

• Tuesday, Sept. 19, Entanglement. (read SW ch. 6.1-4)
• Thursday, Sept. 21, Homework 3 discussion. Conditional states (read SW ch. 6.5-7) (online - Prof. out of office) Recording code yfD=g0c3

Week 5

• Tuesday, Sept. 26, EPR, Bell and GHZ "paradoxes". Read Mermin What's wrong with these elements of reality?. (online - Prof. out of town) Recording code ?6qfJM9m
• Thursday, Sept. 28, Homework 4 discussion. No cloning theorem and teleportation (read SW ch. 7.1-4).

Week 6

• Tuesday, Oct. 3, Density operators (SW ch. 8.1-3)
• Thursday, Oct. 5, Homework 5 discussion. More density operators (SW ch. 8.4-7)

Week 7

• Tuesday, Oct. 10, Quantum computing hardware: NMR (SW ch. 18.3-5) Read Chuang 2001 paper on factorization of 15
• Thursday, Oct. 12, Midsemester Exam

Midsemester Break Oct. 16-20

Week 8

• Tuesday, Oct. 24, Quantum computing hardware: superconductors and more. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_qubit
• Thursday, Oct. 26, Homework 6 discussion. Quantum annealing; SAT problems. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_theorem and https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo6587

Week 9

• Tuesday, Nov. 1, Principles of quantum programming (read Mermin ch. 2)
• Thursday, Nov. 3, Homework 7 discussion. Algebra of factorization (read Mermin Appendix I and ch. 3 or read Nielsen and Chuang, chapter 5) See also factor notes

Week 10

• Tuesday, Nov. 8, Democracy Day, no class
• Thursday, Nov. 10, Homework 8 discussion. Period finding, Shor's algorithm

Week 11

• Tuesday, Nov. 14, Grover search algorithm (read Mermin ch. 4); quantum simulation (read Chiesa, 2019)
• Thursday, Nov. 16, HW 9 discussion. Error correction (read Mermin ch. 5)

Week 12

• Tuesday, Nov. 21, Open system dynamics (read SW ch. 9.1-3)
• Thursday, Nov. 23, Thanksgiving Break

Week 13

• Tuesday, Nov. 28, Quantum entropy (read SW ch. 19.1-3)
• Thursday, Nov. 30, More thermodynamics (read SW ch. 9.4, 19.5-6)

Week 14

• Tuesday, Dec. 5, Mapping quantum physics to quantum computers (read Simulating molecules using the VQE algorithm on Qiskit or https://joshuagoings.com/2020/08/20/VQE/)
• Thursday, Dec. 7, Quantum chemistry on a quantum computer (lengthy review in Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing)

Final Exam

• Thursday, Dec. 14, 8:30-11:30am, 7316 Wean Hall