Introduction to Quantum Computing

por Carmen G. Almudéver (UPV), Armando Pérez (UV), Bryan Zaldívar (CSIC), (alphabetical order)

lunes 9 may. 2022 11:00 → viernes 20 may. 2022 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Faculty of Physics, Room 4105 (1st Floor) (Campus Burjassot)

INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM COMPUTATION  (16 hours):

Monday 9th May:     11:00 to 13:00

Tuesday 10th May:   09:30 to 11:30

Wednesday 11th May: 11:00 to 13:00

Thursday 12th May: 11:00 to 13:00

Monday 16th May:     11:00 to 13:00

Tuesday 17th May:   09:30 to 11:30

Wednesday 18th May: 11:00 to 13:00

Thursday 19th May: 11:00 to 13:00

 

Outline

Lecture #1. 1.1. Classical Computation: Turing machine; circuit model; gates. 1.2  Computational complexity, Landauer Principle, reversible computation. (B. Zaldívar)

Lecture # 2.  The qubit, Bloch sphere, circuit model, gates, Bell basis. Universal Quantum Computation. (B. Zaldívar)

Lecture # 3.  No Cloning Theorem, quantum cloning, teleportation, dense coding, cryptography. (A. Pérez)

Lecture # 4. Quantum algorithms: Deutsch, Grover, Quantum Fourier, Shor (A. Pérez and B. Zaldívar)

Lecture # 5. Quantum programming (python notebook): Qiskit language, Simple circuits.  (B. Zaldívar)

Lecture # 6. Quantum information theory I: density matrix, Schmidt decomposition, POVM, Kraus, generalized measurements.  Decoherence, quantum noise. (A. Pérez)

 Lecture # 7. Quantum information theory II: Entanglement measures: Shannon, noiseless coding theorem, Mutual 
information. Von Neumann entropy, Schumacher theorem.
  (B. Zaldívar)

Lecture # 8. Quantum computer technologies. Quantum error correction.  (C.G. Almudéver)

Adiabatic_computing.pdf intro_qiskit.ipynb Lecture_1_Zaldivar.pdf Lecture_2_Zaldivar.pdf Lecture_7_Zaldivar.pdf Lecture_QuantumFourier-and-Shor_Zaldivar.pdf

Lecture Notes (Armando Pérez) Lecture_Notes_AP.pdf