PHY 441 / 6414 :
Quantum Information
This is a first course on the fundamentals of quantum information
and quantum computation. This course is suitable for advanced undergraduates and
PhD students who have already taken a first course in quantum mechanics.
This website will have all the updates for this course.
This course will cover the following
topics (download PDF file) :
- Basic ideas of theory of computation, states and operators, no-cloning theorem
- Qubits, quantum gates and circuits, measurements.
- Quantum teleportation, Superdense coding, Deutsch Jozsa algorithm.
- Schmidt decomposition, Quantum entanglements and their measures.
- Bell's inequality.
- Quantum fourier transform, search and prime factorisation.
- Physical implementations and practical session with quantum computers.
- Quantum error correction or quantum machine learning (if time permits)
Evaluation :
Quiz (2-3): 30%
Midsem : 30%
Endsem : 40%
Suggested Books :
1. Quantum computation and quantum information
Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
2. An introduction to quantum computing
P. Kaye, R. Laflamme and M. Mosca, (Oxford Univ Press, 2010)
3. Preskill's online lecture notes
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Brief introduction to complexity classes
▶ Turing machine
▶ Try a visual Turing simulator
▶ Some more about ciruit identities
▶ A paper that obtains a large number of circuit identities
First quiz will be held on 13.9.2022 at 9 AM. It will cover everything taught in class until 6.9.2022
▸ Problem set -1 (Try these and more problems from text books)
▶ Interesting article on measurement problem by David Mermin
Mid-semester exam will be held on 30.9.2022 from 10 am to 12 noon. Everything taught in class until 20.9.2022 will be covered in the exam.
Try doing the problems given during the lectures but not solved by the instructor. Also, try solving more problems from Nielsen and Chuang book from relevant sections.
▶ You can collect your quiz-1 answer sheets on 22.9.2022 at 5 PM from my office.
Second quiz will be held on 31.10.2022 from 6 PM to 6.45 PM. Everything taught in class from 25.9.2022 until 25.10.2022 will be covered in the exam.
▶ Mid-sem exam question paper ▶ Mid-sem exam solutions
▶ End-sem exams will take place on 25.11.2022. Every thing covered in the course will be part of endsem exam. However, you can expect about 60 to 70% questions from the portion taught after midsem exam.
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