PH 534 Quantum Information and Quantum Computing (Spring 2017-18)
Instructor Name: Prof. Sai Vinjanampathy Course Type: Honours/Elective Pre-requisites: Basic quantum mechanics (schrodinger's equation, particle in a box, simple harmonic ladder operators, dirac notation) - but these were revised from the very basics - so not a hard prerequisite. Course Content: Open Quantum Systems Theory (composite systems, density matrices, partial traces and Schmidt decomposition, CPTP maps, Kraus representation, Stinesping dilation, Choi & Jamiałkowski isomorphism), Geometry of quantum states, separability and entanglement, Bell’s inequalities, Entropy, Entanglement & Measures Other topics covered: Algorithms - super dense coding, DQC-1, Shor, Grover. Books: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information - Nielsen and Chuang, The Theory of Open Quantum Systems - Breuer & Petruccione Lectures: No attendance was taken. Everything was taught on the blackboard - additional topics were taught using pres...