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Syllabus:

Quantum Information, 7.5 credits

Swedish name: Kvantinformation D
This syllabus is valid: 2008-03-17 valid to 2009-05-10 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Syllabus for courses starting before 2009-05-10
Course code: 5FY052
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: Physics: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Physics

Contents

The purpose of the course is to introduce students to a new interdisciplinary field of quantum information. The following subjects will be considered: Introduction: Basics of classical information and computation, error correction, data compression. Fundamentals of quantum computation: Quantum bits (qubits) and gates, quantum data compression. Quantum algorithms: Factorisation (Shor) search (Grover). Error correction algorithms. Quantum communication: Quantum cryptography. Quantum teleportation. Quantum hardware: Ion traps, nuclear magnetic resonance, optical cavities. Solid state implementations: Josephson junctions, quantum dots.

Required Knowledge

Solid State Physics, or equivalent.

Literature

Valid from: 2008 week 9

Feynman lectures on computation
Feynman Richard Phillips, Hey Anthony J. G., Allen Robin W.
London : Penguin : 1999 : xiv, 303 s. :
ISBN: 0-14-028451-6 (pbk)
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Quantum computation and quantum information
Nielsen Michael A., Chuang Isaac L.
Cambridge : Cambridge Univers. Press : 2000 : xxv, 676 s. :
ISBN: 0-521-63235-8 (inb.)
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Explorations in quantum computing
Williams Colin P., Clearwater Scott H.
New York : Springer : cop. 1998 : 307 s. :
ISBN: 0-387-94768-X
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