The students in this class scribed the lecture notes. Typing a scribe report results in a bonus on the student’s worst mark from a homework problem set. Scribe notes are used with permission. Not all lectures were scribed.
| Lec # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and Overview | |
| 2 | Basics of Quantum Mechanics | (PDF) (Courtesy of Vitaly Feldman. Used with permission.) |
| 3 | More Basics of Quantum Mechanics | |
| 4 | Classical Computation Models and Quantum Gates | (PDF) (Courtesy of Moses Liskov. Used with permission.) |
| 5 | Quantum Circuits and a Simple Quantum Algorithm | (PDF) (Courtesy of Dion Harmon. Used with permission.) |
| 6 | More on Quantum Circuits | |
| 7 | Simon’s algorithm | |
| 8 | Factoring | |
| 9 | More on Factoring | |
| 10 | Grover’s search algorithm | |
| 11 | Applications of Grover’s Search Algorithm | (PDF) (Courtesy of Yuan-Chung Cheng. Used with permission.) |
| 12 | Superdense Coding and Quantum Teleportation | |
| 13 | Quantum Computation Models | (PDF) (Courtesy of Eric Fellheimer. Used with permission.) |
| 14 | Cluster States | (PDF) (Courtesy of Ilia Mirkin. Used with permission.) |
| 15 | More on Computing with Cluster States | |
| 16 | Quantum Error Correction | (PDF) (Courtesy of Dah-Yoh Lim. Used with permission.) |
| 17 | Quantum Mechanics | |
| 18 | More on Quantum Mechanics | |
| 19 | Guest Lecture by Isaac Chuang on Implementations of Quantum Computing: How to Build your Own Quantum Computer | (PDF) (Courtesy of Fen Zhao. Used with permission.) |
| 20 | Quantum CSS Codes | |
| 21 | More on Quantum Error Correcting Codes | |
| 22 | Quantum Cryptography | |
| 23 | Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation | (PDF) (Courtesy of Jonathan Hodges. Used with permission.) |
