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| Dieter Suter, Joachim Stolze | |||||||||
| Quantum Computing WS13 / SS14 | |
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| Quantum computers use quantum mechanical systems to store and process information. By processing superpositions of states in parallel, their computing power is exponentially larger than that of classical computers for certain problems. |
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The lecture is be based on the book 'Quantum Computing - A Short Course from Theory to Experiment' | |||||||||
| Topics | |||||||||
| 1) | Introduction | ||||||||
| 2) | Physics of computation | ||||||||
| 3) | Elements of classical computer science | ||||||||
| 4) | Quantum mechanics | ||||||||
| 4.4) Entanglement measures | |||||||||
| 5) | Quantum bits and quantum gates | ||||||||
| 6) | Feynman's contribution | ||||||||
| 7) | Errors and decoherence | ||||||||
| 8) | Tasks for quantum computers | ||||||||
| 9) | How to build a quantum computer | ||||||||
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Liquid-state NMR quantum computers
| 11) | Trapped ions and atoms | 12) |
Solid state quantum computers
| 13) | Quantum communication | | | |
| This is a list of errors in the book - Please let us know if you discover more ! | |
| Additional literature on the subject | |
| Links: | |
| Physics department TuDO | |
| E3 homepage | |
| J. Stolze's homepage | |
| Lecture notes and tutorials | |
| Lecture notes of John Preskill (Caltech) | |
| Lecture notes of Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley) | |
| Tutorial by Samuel Braunstein | |
| Mini-Course by Andre Berthiaume | |
| Los Alamos Science Information, Science, and Technology in a Quantum World | |
| QI research in Europe | |
| Websites | |
| Quantensimulator | |
| The age of the qubit (IOP) | |
| Journals | |
| Annalen der Physik: Topical issue on quantum simulations | |
| Quantum Information Processing | |
| Quantum Information and Computation | |
| International Journal of Quantum Information | |
| Natural Computing | |
| International Journal of Nanoscience | |
| Journals | |
| CT article on Quantum Computing (in German) | |
| Jobs | |
| Todd Brun's site at USC | |
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