Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic discipline
FIS/03 (MATERIAL PHYSICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Curriculum
Fisica teorica
Period
2nd semester (01/03/2017 - 16/06/2017)
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Basic notions of quantum physics, that will be recalled at the beginning of the course.
Learning outcomes
Learning of fundamental theoretical concepts related to the physics of quantum computation.
Course contents
The course deals with the main developments in the theory of quantum computation and communications. The main topics are: Basic notions of the theory of computational complexity. Logic gates and networks. Quantum computation: single qubit gates and two-qubit gates. Universal quantum gates. Quantum algorithms: Deutsch, Deutsch-Jozsa, Simon, Grover, Shor. Introduction to the theory of quantum error correction. Superdense coding and quantum teleportation. Basic notions of classical cryptography and introduction to quantum cryptography. Introduction to entanglement theory. Separability criteria and techiques for distillation and detection of entanglement. Entanglement in quantum algorithms. One-way quantum computation.
Reccomended or required readings
I.L. Chuang and M.A. Nielsen, Quantum Information and Quantum Computation, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge UK 2000).
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Further information
Oral examination.
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