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Sreraman Muralidharan, Becton 301

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APHY 601 01 / PHYS 601 01 (S14)

Quantum Information and Computation


APHY 601/PHY 601
Instructor: Liang Jiang ([email protected])
TF: Sreraman Muralidharan ([email protected])
Office Hour: TBD, Becton 301.
FIRST CLASS: Monday, Jan. 13th, 2014, 9:00am
Schedule: M/W 9:00-10:15 am, Room: ML 107
Homework: 1 problem set every 2 weeks
Final project presentation

Course Topics

Foundations of Quantum Theory


Two level systems, harmonic oscillators, pure and mixed states, unitary evolution,
measurements, POVM, superoperators, decoherence.

Quantum Communication
Non-cloning theorem, quantum cryptography, quantum entanglement, quantum
teleportation, super-dense coding, secret sharing, entanglement purification, quantum
repeaters.

Quantum Computation
Grover search algorithm, Shor factoring algorithm, quantum walks, quantum circuits,
distributed quantum computation, measurement based quantum computation,
adiabatic quantum computation.

Quantum Error Correction


Quantum error correcting codes, stabilizer formalism, CSS codes, quantum secret
sharing, toric codes, fault-tolerant quantum gates and quantum computation.

Topological Quantum Computation


Topologically protected quantum memory, surface-code based topological quantum
computation, anyons and braiding, non-Abelian anyons for topological quantum
computation.

Physical implementations of quantum computation


Coherent control of quantum systems. Implementations with trapped ions,
superconducting qubits, spins in solid states, neutral atoms in optical lattices.

Reserved References:
1.

M. A. Nielsen and I. Chuang, Quantum computation and quantum information.


(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K; New York, 2000 & 2011).

2.

D. Bouwmeester, A. K. Ekert and A. Zeilinger, The physics of quantum


information : quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation, quantum
computation. (Springer, Berlin ; New York, 2000).

3.

N. D. Mermin, Quantum Computer Science: an Introduction. (CAMBRIDGE UNIV


PRESS, Cambridge,
2007).http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~mermin/qcomp/CS483.html

4.

J. Preskill, Lecture Notes on Quantum


Computation,http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/#lecture

Course Policies:
Grading:
Problem Sets:

Office:

Problem sets (60%) and final project presentation (40%)


1 problem set every 2 weeks.
(Late penalty 20%. Not accepted if more than 1 week late.)
Prof. Liang Jiang, Becton 313

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