QCQI Lecture Coverage

Week 1

• Tuesday, August 26, Course intro; Measures of information
• Thursday, August 28, Thermodynamics of information

Week 2

• Tuesday, Sept. 2, Qubits (photon, spin, atom)
• Thursday, Sept. 4, Homework 1 discussion; Hilbert space, Bloch Sphere

Week 3

• Tuesday, Sept. 9, X and Z basis sets, operators
• Thursday, Sept. 11, Homework 2 discussion. Expectation values

Week 3

• Tuesday, Sept. 9, Measurement
• Thursday, Sept. 11, Homework 2 discussion. More measurement

Week 7

• Tuesday, Oct. 7,
• Thursday, Oct. 9, Midsemester Exam

Midsemester Break Oct. 13-17

Final Exam

• TBA

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