4782-Quantum Information, quantum computing  (Fall 2015)



Homework & Calendar    ( to main)    ( to weekly calendar)

• • August 18-20:   What is a qbit ? 1-qbit gates, 1-qbit states, QCQI Sections 1.2 & 2.1
  • August 25-27:   N-qbits,entanglement, Bell's inequalities,   QCQI Sections 1.3 & 2.1
  
  
  • Homework #1:
    
    1)-Read carefully QCQI, Sections 1.2 & 2.1
    2)-Treat as many exercises as possible
    3)-Turn in exercises (to be graded) # 2.5, 2.8, 2.9, 2.17, 2.20, 2.27, 2.33, 2.35,
    Due Date: Tuesday September 1st, 2015 ( to weekly calendar)
  
  
  
• • September  1-3:   Principles of Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Circuits, QCQI Sections 1.3-2.2-4
  • September 8-10:   Quantum Fourier transform, QCQI Section 5.1
  
  
  • Homework #2:
    
    1)- Read carefully QCQI, Sections 1.3, 2.2 & 4
    2)-Treat as many exercises as possible in Section 4.3
    3)-Turn in exercises ( to be graded) # 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.13, 4.17, 4.21, 4.23, 4.24, 4.35
    Due Date: Tuesday September 15, 2015 ( to weekly calendar)
  
  
  
•     Report: submit your proposal on Thursday September 17, 2015
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  ( Report Instructions )



• • September 15-17:   Phase estimate, order finding Schor's algorithm QCQI Sections 5.2-5.3
  • September 22-24:   Shor's & Quantum Search algorithm, QCQI Section 5.3, 6.1-6.2
  
  
  • Homework #3:
    
    1)- Read carefully QCQI, Section 5; in particular read the Boxes # 5.2 & 5.3
    together with Sections 2.2-2.5 & 6.1-6.2
    2)-Treat as many exercises as possible in Section 5
    3)- Read and learn Boxes # 2.3, 2.4
    4)-Turn in exercises ( to be graded ) # 5.1, 5.4, 5.12, 5.13, 5.17
    and ( not graded ) #5.6, 5.8, 5.10, 5.11,
    Due Date: Thursday October 15th, 2015 ( to weekly calendar)
  
  
  
• • September 29-October 1:   Measurement: pure states and mixture, Bloch sphere QCQI Section 1.3-2.4-2.5
  •  October 6-8:   Guest Lectures: Pr. B. Kennedy (School of Physics), Dissipation and Decoherence.
  •  October 15 (Fall recess on Oct. 13th):   Measurement: various aspects, quantum operations QCQI Section 2.2-8
  
  
  • Homework #4:
    
    1)- Read carefully QCQI, Section 2.2-2.5 & 6.1-6.2 & 8.1- 8.2
    2)-Treat as many exercises as possible in Section 5
    3)-Turn in exercises ( to be graded ) # 2.57, 2.61, 2.73, 6.3, 8.6
    and ( not graded ) #2.58, 2.71, 6.2, 6.7, 8.4
    Due Date: Tuesday October 27th, 2015 ( to weekly calendar)
  
  
  
•     Progress Report: October 22th, 2015
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• • October 20-22:   Measurement and Quantum Operations QCQI Section 8
  •  October 27-29:   Quantum Operation and Dissipative Evolution QCQI Section 8
  
  
  • Homework #5:
    
    1)- Read carefully QCQI, Section 8
    2)-Boxes # 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, and treat as many exercises as possible
    3)-Turn in exercises ( to be graded ) # 8.5, 8.9, 8.18, 8.24 (difficult), Pb 8.2 (p. 395-396)
    and ( not graded ) 8.7, 8.10, 8.15, 8.19, 8.28,
    Due Date: Tuesday November 10th, 2015 ( to weekly calendar)
  
  
  
• • November 3-5:   Distance measures for quantum information QCQI Section 9
  •  November 10-12:   Quantum Error Corrections I, QCQI Section 10.1-10.3
  
  
  • Homework #6:
    
    1)- Read carefully QCQI, Section 9, 10.1-10.3
    2)-Treat as many exercises as possible in Section 9
    3)-Turn in exercises ( to be graded ) # 9.5, 9.10, 9.17, 9.22, 10.4,
    and ( not graded ) 9.3, 9.8, 9.15, 9.18, 10.3, Pb 9.1
    Due Date: Tuesday November 24th, 2015 ( to weekly calendar)
  
  
  
• • November 17-19:   Quantum Error Corrections II QCQI Section 10
  •  November 24 (Thanksgiving Nov. 26):   Quantum Error Corrections III, QCQI Section 10
  •  December 1-3:   Quantum Error Corrections IV, QCQI Section 10
  
  
  
  
•     Report Submission: December 1st, 2015
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  ( Report Instructions )



•     Final Exam: Thursday December 10th, 2015,
                                   11:30am-2:20pm Howey S204
  
       Review : All Sections treated in class during the Fall semester 2015,
                              Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
                              (by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang . Cambridge Uni. Press; 10th Anniversary edition (January 31, 2011))
       The Final exams will be made of short questions for 2/3 of the time,
       A 55-minutes problem will be proposed, with self contained questions.
       The final exam represents 40% of the final grade.
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