Quantum Computing

4 may. 2026 11:00 → 15 may. 2026 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Room 4204 (Campus Burjassot)

Perez Armando (Departamento de Física Teórica & IFIC, UVEG-CSIC)

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Introduction to Quantum Computing (2026)

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given by (alphabetical order):

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

OUTLINE

Lecture #1. Classical Computation: Turing machine; circuit model; gates. 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.  Quantum programming (python notebook): Qiskit language, Simple circuits. (B. Zaldívar)

Lecture # 4.  No Cloning Theorem, quantum cloning, teleportation. (A. Pérez)

Lecture # 5. Quantum algorithms: Quantum parallelism. Deutsch, Grover. (A. Pérez)

Lecture # 6 Quantum Fourier, Quantum phase estimation, Shor. (B. Zaldívar)

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

Lecture # 8. Quantum noise: Decoherence, quantum channels. (A. Pérez)

Lecture # 9. Quantum circuit applications. Quantum simulations. Trotter decomposition. Variational circuits. (A. Pérez)

Lecture # 10. Quantum computer technologies. Quantum error correction. (C.G. Almudéver).