Astronomy 598 Topics in Theoretical Astrophysics (Quantum Computing for Computational Scientists)

Spring 2019: Fri 11:00-12:20 Physics/Astronomy Building A214

Instructor: Pramod Gupta
psgupta *at* astro. washington. edu

Office hours: after class, or email.

Web-site: http://vpl.astro.washington.edu/users/psgupta/astro598quantumcomputing.html

Syllabus:

(1) One qubit
(2) Bloch Sphere
(3) Pauli Matrices
(4) Two qubits
(5) Entangled State
(6) Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox
(7) Bell States
(8) Bell's theorem
(9) No-cloning theorem
(10) Quantum Dense Coding
(11) Quantum Teleportation
(12) Quantum Gates
(13) Quantum Circuits
(14) Quantum Algorithms
(15) Greenberger Horne Zeilinger state
(16) Constructing quantum gates with spin qubits

Grades:

100% of grade will be based on homeworks.

References:

John Preskill's Lecture Notes
http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph219/index.html

David Mermin's Lecture Notes
http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/mermin/qcomp/CS483.html

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
Nielsen and Chuang