Dieter Suter, Joachim Stolze
Quantum Computing WS 07/08
Di 12:15 - 14:00, P1-02-323,
Do 12:15 - 13:00 P1-01-306
Für Studierende der FB Physik und Informatik ab 5. Semester, Diplomanden, Doktoranden
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.

The lecture will be based on the book
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1. Introduction
2. Physics of computation
3. Elements of classical computer science
4. Quantum mechanics
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
10. Liquid state NMR quantum computer
11. Ion trap quantum computers
12. Solid state quantum computers
13. Quantum communication

Links:

Physics department UniDO

• Graduiertenkolleg "Materialeigenschaften und Konzepte zur Quanteninformationsverarbeitung"
• Quantencomputing in E3
• 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
• DFG-Schwerpunkt "Quanten-Informationsverarbeitung"
• Quantum Computing with Fullerenes
• European Initiative on Quantum Information Processing and CommunicationsQIPC
• QubitNews

Journals

• Quantum Information Processing
• Quantum Information and Computation
• International Journal of Quantum Information
• Natural Computing
• International Journal of Nanoscience

Media

• CT article on Quantum Computing (in German)

Jobs

• Todd Brun's site at USC