Dieter Suter, Joachim Stolze
Quantum Computing WS11/SS12
Fr 12:15 - 13:45 HG II / HS 4
Für Bachelor-Studierende der Fakultäten Physik und Informatik ab 5. Semester, Master-Studierende und 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 'Quantum Computing - A Short Course from Theory to Experiment'

The following topics will be covered:

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
   Quantum transport through spin chains
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 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 !

Links:

Physics department UniDO

• 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

• The age of the qubit (IOP)

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