Homepage for PHY 625 Quantum Information Theory
(August 2020 - December 2020)
Instructor: Dr. Phani Kumar
Learning Objectives
This course will lay the foundations for the field of quantum information.
Course Content
Bloch sphere representation for qubits, Pauli operators, Single qubit gates and rotations, Two-qubit states, Reversible and irreversible operations on classical bits, Classical gates and their quantum extensions, Quantum circuits, Universal set of gates, Qubit manipulation, Two-qubit composite system, Interactions & quantum entanglement, Density operator description of pure & mixed states, Reduced density operator, Local & global measurements on two-qubit states, Preparation & measurement of Bell states, Classical and quantum correlations, No-cloning theorem, Quantum key distribution - BB84 & B92 protocols, Superdense coding, Quantum teleportation, Measurement gates, Quantum parallelism, Deutsch's algorithm, Deutsch-Jozsa's algorithm, Simon's algorithm
Literature
- Stephen M. Barnett, Quantum Information, Oxford University Press, 2009
- N. David Mermin, Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2007
- Colin P. Williams, Explorations in Quantum Computing, Springer, 2011
- Lajos Diosi, A Short Course in Quantum Information Theory, Springer, 2011
- Michel Le Bellac, Quantum Information and Quantum Computation, Cambridge University Press, 2006
- John Preskill's Lecture Notes
Course Schedule
- Lectures: Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, 9 AM
Course Assessment
- Attendance : 10%
- Four Quizzes : 70%
- End-semester Exam: 20%
Last Updated: November 20, 2020