4782-Quantum Information, quantum computing (Fall 2013)
Homework & Calendar
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- August 20-22:
What is a qbit ? 1-qbit gates, 1-qbit states, QCQI Sections 1.2 & 2.1
- August 27-29:
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 3, 2013
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September 3-5:
Principles of Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Circuits, QCQI Sections 1.3-2.2-4
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September 10-12:
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 17, 2013
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Report: submit your proposal
on Thursday September 19, 2013
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September 17-19:
Phase estimate, order finding Schor's algorithm QCQI Sections 5.2-5.3
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September 24-26:
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 (
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# 5.1, 5.4, 5.12, 5.13, 5.17
and (
not graded
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#5.6, 5.8, 5.10, 5.11,
Due Date:
Thursday October 17th, 2013
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October 1-3:
Guest Lectures
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October 8-10:
Measurement: pure states and mixture, Bloch sphere QCQI Section 1.3-2.4-2.5
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October 17 (Fall recess on Oct. 15th):
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
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# 2.57, 2.61, 2.73, 6.3, 8.6
and (
not graded
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#2.58, 2.71, 6.2, 6.7, 8.4
Due Date:
Tuesday October 29th, 2013
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Progress Report: October 24th, 2013
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October 22-24:
Measurement and Quantum Operations QCQI Section 8
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October 29-31:
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
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# 8.5, 8.9, 8.18, 8.24 (difficult), Pb 8.2 (p. 395-396)
and (
not graded
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8.7, 8.10, 8.15, 8.19, 8.28,
Due Date:
Tuesday November 12th, 2013
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November 5-7:
Distance measures for quantum information QCQI Section 9
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November 12-14::
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
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# 9.5, 9.10, 9.17, 9.22, 10.4,
and (
not graded
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9.3, 9.8, 9.15, 9.18, 10.3, Pb 9.1
Due Date:
Tuesday November 26th, 2013
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November 19-21:
Quantum Error Corrections II QCQI Section 10
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November 26 (Thanksgiving Nov. 28):
Quantum Error Corrections III, QCQI Section 10
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December 3-5:
Quantum Error Corrections IV, QCQI Section 10
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Report Submission: December 3rd, 2013
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Final Exam:
Tuesday December 10th, 2013,
2:50-5:40pm Skiles 269
Review :
All Sections treated in class during the Fall semester 2009,
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
(by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang . Cambridge Univ Press, (2000) )
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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