Calendar

Lec #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction and Overview
2	Basics of Quantum Mechanics
3	More Basics of Quantum Mechanics
4	Classical Computation Models and Quantum Gates
5	Quantum Circuits and a Simple Quantum Algorithm	Homework 1 due
6	More on Quantum Circuits
7	Simon’s algorithm
8	Factoring
9	More on Factoring	Homework 2 due
10	Grover’s search algorithm
11	Applications of Grover’s Search Algorithm
12	Superdense Coding and Quantum Teleportation
13	Quantum Computation Models	Homework 3 due
14	Cluster States
15	More on Computing with Cluster States
16	Quantum Error Correction
17	Quantum Mechanics
18	More on Quantum Mechanics	Homework 4 due
19	Guest Lecture by Isaac Chuang on Implementations of Quantum Computing: How to Build your Own Quantum Computer
20	Quantum CSS Codes
21	More on Quantum Error Correcting Codes
22	Quantum Cryptography	Homework 5 due
23	Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation