PHYS 521

Quantum Information

Prerequisites

Either PHYS 517, PHYS 518, or equivalent.

Description

Quantum information and quantum computing. Landauer's Principle, density matrices, Bell and CHSH inequalities, GHZ state, quantum circuits, noisy gates, universality, superdense coding, quantum teleportation algorithms, open quantum systems, decoherence, quantum error correction and fault tolerance, physical implementations.

CEC Data

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