QCQI Lecture Coverage

Week 1

• Tuesday, August 26, Course intro; Measures of information (read Barnett, Ch. 1)
• Thursday, August 28, Thermodynamics of information

Week 2

• Tuesday, Sept. 2, Qubits (photon, spin, atom)
• Thursday, Sept. 4, Homework 1 discussion; Hilbert space, X and Z basis sets, operators (read SW ch. 3.1-3)

Week 3

• Tuesday, Sept. 9, Expectation values and measurement (read SW ch. 3.4-5)
• Thursday, Sept. 11, Homework 2 discussion. Communication, cryptography and bit commitment (read SW ch. 4)

Week 4

• Tuesday, Sept. 16, Entanglement. (read SW ch. 6.1-4)
• Thursday, Sept. 18, Homework 3 discussion. Conditional states (read SW ch. 6.5-7)

Week 5 (pre-recorded - Prof. out of town)

• Tuesday, Sept. 23, EPR, Bell and GHZ "paradoxes". Read Mermin What's wrong with these elements of reality?
• Thursday, Sept. 25, Homework 4 discussion. No cloning theorem and teleportation (read SW ch. 7.1-4)

Week 6

• Tuesday, Sept. 30, Density operators (SW ch. 8.1-3)
• Thursday, Oct. 2, Homework 5 discussion. More density operators (SW ch. 8.4-7)

Week 7

• Tuesday, Oct. 7, Generalized measurements (Barnett ch. 4)
• Thursday, Oct. 9, Midsemester Exam

Midsemester Break Oct. 13-17

Final Exam

• TBA

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