Syllabus & Reading

Syllabus

The most recent version of the syllabus can be found here (updated 08.04.2021).

Reading

• All lecture notes compiled into a single document: Lecture notes.

• (Apr 12) Lecture 1: Linear Algebra review (Chapter 1 of lecture notes, video).
• (Apr 19) Lecture 2: Introduction to quantum mechanics (Chapter 2 of lecture notes, video).
• (Apr 26) Lecture 3: Measurement and quantum teleportation (Chapter 3 of lecture notes, video).
• (May 3) Lecture 4: No cloning, entanglement, and density matrices (Chapter 4 of lecture notes, video).
• (May 10) Lecture 5: Non-local games (Chapter 5 of lecture notes, video).
• (May 17) Lecture 6: Entropy and Entanglement Distillation (Chapter 6 of lecture notes, video).
• (May 24) Public holiday - no lecture this week.
• (May 31) Lecture 7: The Deutsch-Josza and Bernstein-Vazirani algorithms (Chapter 7 of lecture notes, video).
• (Jun 7) Lecture 8: Simon's algorithm and applications to cryptography (Chapter 8 of lecture notes, video).
• (Jun 14) Lecture 9: The Quantum Fourier Transform (Chapter 9 of lecture notes, video).
• (Jun 21) Lecture 10: Shor's quantum factoring algorithm (Chapter 10 of lecture notes, video).
• (Jun 28) No lecture (Dagstuhl workshop).
• (Jul 5) Lecture 11: Grover search and approximate counting (Chapter 11 of lecture notes, video).
• (Jul 12) Lecture 12: Stabilizers and the Gottesman-Knill Theorem (Chapter 12 of lecture notes, video).
• (Jul 19) Final Exam Review (synchronous via the usual BBB link)

Supplementary Reading

Alternate sets of course notes for an introduction to quantum computation include:

• Quantum Computing: Lecture Notes, Ronald de Wolf, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).