Course Code
P471
Credit
8
Prerequisite
P206 (Quantum Mechanics I)
Total Hours
42 Lectures + 14 Tutorials
Outcome of the Course
This course teaches the students important concepts and methods in quantum information and computation, with the aim to build their background for future research work in this area.
Approval
Syllabus
- Introduction to Classical information: Shannon entropy, Mutual Information
- Quantum Information I: Hilbert space, density matrices, quantum entropy and Holevo bound
- Quantum Information II: Entanglement, Teleportation, super dense coding & Bell inequalities
- Quantum dynamics:Two level systems, decoherence and Rabi oscillations
- Quantum computation: single qubit gates-phase, swap, Hadamard, two qubit gates-CNOT
- Quantum algorithms: Deutsch, Grover, Introduction to Shor’s algorithm
- Quantum error correction
- Applications: Quantum simulation and Adiabatic quantum computation
- Solid state quantum information & computation: Introduction to entanglement in nanostructures, quantum computation with superconducting devices and topological quantum computation
Reference Books
- Introduction to Quantum Information Science by V. Vedral (Oxford U. Press)
- Quantum Information & Computation by M. A. Nielsen & I. L. Chuang (Cambridge U. Press)
- An Introduction to quantum computing Kaye by P. R. Laflamme and A. M. Mosca (Oxford U. press)