Comp 360: Quantum Information Systems

Instructor

Ed Morehouse, Exley 645
Office hours: Thursdays 1:00–3:00 and by appointment or drop-in availability.

Lectures

Mondays and Wednesdays 2:50–4:10, Exley 113

Discussion

Hosted by Piazza

Handouts

• Syllabus
• Term Project description

Readings

• Introduction
• Interacting Quantum Observables: Categorical Algebra and Diagrammatics by Bob Coecke and Ross Duncan

Additional References

• Rieffel and Polak, Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction
• Kaye, Laflamme and Mosca, An Introduction to Quantum Computing
• Nielsen and Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
• Coecke and Kissinger, Picturing Quantum Processes

Homework

• homework 1: Quantum States and Measurements
• homework 2: Unitary Evolution and Tensor Products
• homework 3: Multi-Qubit Operators and States
• homework 4: The Z-, X- and Bell Bases
• homework 5: Duality and Super-Dense Coding
• homework 6: The ZX-Calculus