Quantum Information Science II

Already know something about quantum mechanics, quantum bits and quantum logic gates, but want to design new quantum algorithms, and explore multi-party quantum protocols? This is the course for you!

In this advanced graduate physics course on quantum computation and quantum information, we will cover:

• The formalism of quantum errors (density matrices, operator sum representations)
• Quantum error correction codes (stabilizers, graph states)
• Fault-tolerant quantum computation (normalizers, Clifford group operations, the Gottesman-Knill Theorem)
• Models of quantum computation (teleportation, cluster, measurement-based)
• Quantum Fourier transform-based algorithms (factoring, simulation)
• Quantum communication (noiseless and noisy coding)
• Quantum protocols (games, communication complexity)

Research problem ideas are presented along the journey.

Learner Testimonial

“This course is hard!”
-- Anonymous MIT graduate student