Quantum Computing Seminar [FSU Math]

SPRING 2001

Room 104, Love Building.
Tuesday, 3:35-4:35 pm.

The first few lectures of the Quantum Computing Seminar will be devoted to background material on classical computation, reversible computation, and quantum mechanics. Subsequently, we will cover foundational topics such as quantum circuits, quantum complexity, and discuss various algorithms including Grover's quantum database search and Shor's factorization. Eventually, we will visit other topics in quantum information theory such as fault-tolerant computation, error-correcting codes, and various quantum encryption protocols.
Our basic references will be the book Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang, and John Preskill's lecture notes on Quantum Computing. You may want to read Chapter 1 (of either reference) which provide overviews of the material covered, or the survey on Quantum Computing offered by Julian Brown in his book Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse.

Lectures

		Classical Circuits, January 23. (W. Mio)
		Circuit Complexity, January 30. (W. Mio)
		Reversible Computation, February 6. (W. Mio)
		Axiomatic Quantum Mechanics, February 13. (P. Bowers)
		Axiomatic Quantum Mechanics (cont'd), February 20. (P. Bowers)
		Quantum Systems, February 27. (P. Bowers)
		The Qubit, March 6. (P. Bowers)
		Quantum Circuits, March 27. (W. Mio)
		Universal Gates for Quantum Computation, April 3. (W. Mio)
		Universal Gates and Quantum Complexity, April 10. (W. Mio)
		Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm, April 17. (W. Mio)

Links

Centre for Quantum Computation at Oxford
Stanford-Berkeley-MIT-IBM NMR Quantum Computation Project
Quantum Information at IBM
Quantum Computation at Los Alamos
MIT Media Lab
The Institute for Quantum Information
Quantum Computation at Bristol
QUIC Caltech-MIT-USC
GAP Optique at University of Geneva
Los Alamos Quantum Physics Archive
John Preskill's page
The Institute of Physics