instructor | nicolas macris |
office | inr 134 |
phone | +4121 6938114 |
[email protected] | |
lectures | fridays 11h15 – 13h, room inr 113 |
exercises | fridays 14h15 – 16h, room inr113 |
Special announcements
The exam dates and times have been set up on Jan 18 and Jan 25. For those who present a paper plan to talk 40 mins on the board or on slides and keep 20 mins for questions. The presentation should be understandable by peope who have never read the paper. If you have not announced yourself, or do not know when is your date and time of exam, or want to discuss your presentation beforehand, please contact me by email
This course is a one semester course given once every two years.
Objectives
It appears that today one is able to manipulate matter at the nanoscale, so that although the technology does not yet exist, information processing may have to take into account the laws of quantum physics. This course introduces the theoretical concepts and methods that have been developped in the last two decades to take advantage of guenuine quantum ressources. We will see how the concepts of bit and entropy, and Shannon’s theory can extended to the quantum domain. We will emphasize the role of entanglement which is a distinctly quantum feature. We will also see how useful quantum parallelism can be in the theory of quantum computation. No prerequisite in quantum mechanics is needed.
Contents: the course is divided in three parts
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Introduction to quantum mechanics, Qbits and quantum cryptography.
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Quantum information theory.
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Quantum computation, and quantum error correcting codes.
Date | QM, Qbits, Cryptography | Notes, Exercices |
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W1 | Experiments with light, analyzers and polarizers | chap1.pdf chap1bis.pdf exercisesW1.pdf |
W2 | Mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics | chap2.pdf exercicesW2.pdf |
W3 | Quantum key distribution protocols | chap3.pdf exercisesW3.pdf |
W4 | Quantum entanglement | chap4.pdf exercisesW4.pdf |
W5 | Continuation of above | chap4.pdf exercisesW5.pdf |
Date | Quantum Information Theory | Notes, Exercises |
W6 | Density matrix formalism | chap5.pdf exercisesW7.pdf |
W7 | Quantum entropy | chap6.pdf exercisesW7.pdf |
W8 | Accessible information and source coding | chap7.pdfchap7bis.pdfexercisesW8.pdf |
W9 | Capacity theorems | chap8.pdfexercisesW9.pdf |
Date | Computation and Error Correction | Notes, Exercises |
W10 | Models of computation | lect10.pdflect10bis.pdf |
W11 | Hidden subgroup and QFT | lect11.pdfexercises.pdf |
W12 | Factoring algorithm | qftcircuit.pdffactoring.pdf |
W- | Search algorithm | |
W- | Quantum error correction |
Course notes
in principle, are posted weekly
Exams
the students may choose between oral exam or small project
Additional reading material
Books
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A rather complete reference Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, by Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang, Cambridge University Press (2004)
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A book that covers quantum computing An introduction to quantum computing, by Phillip Kaye, Raymond Laflamme and Michele Mosca, Oxford University Press (2007)
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A small pedagogic book written by a phycisist A short introduction to quantum information and quantum computation, by Michel Le Bellac, Cambridge University Press (2006)
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A collection of reprinted articles can be found in Quantum computation and quantum information theory eds C. Macchiavello, G.M.Palma, A.Zeilinger world scientific (2000)
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For an emphasis on computer science aspects Quantum computing, by Mika Hirvensalo, Springer Verlag (2001)
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See the Feynman lectures on Physics, vol 3 by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (1998) Addison Wesley
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An interesting book on quantum mechanics with emphasis on the conceptual framework Quantum theory:concepts and methods, by Asher Peres, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1995)
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For those who want to learn real quantum mechanics Quantum Mechanics by Albert Messiah, ed Dover (two volumes bound as one)
Papers:
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proof of security of BB84 (reserved by Khaled Ouafi)
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Dynamics of Kaon systemCP violation and Bell inequality for Kaons (reserved by Vincent Fave)
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decoherence and information theorymaxwell demon in quantum mechanics(reserved by Thomas Braschler)
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quantum random walk(reserved by Charles Dubout)
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on error correcting codes (by Shrinivas Kudekar)
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on error correcting codes (by Ghid Maatouk)