A Course
in Quantum Information Theory
0510.7120 Spring 2007 2 pts
Course Information
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Mondays @ 16:00-18:00
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Room 103 @ Software Eng. Building
Instructors
Ofer Shayevitz [home page]
Prof. Meir Feder (Academic supervisor)
Perquisites
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Information Theory 0510.6101
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No background in physics is required !
Syllabus
After the necessary mathematical background, we plan to cover
quantum source coding,
quantum channel coding and (time permitting) quantum error
correction.
See the announced syllabus for further details.
Textbooks
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“Quantum Computation and Quantum
Information” by M. A. Nielsen and I. L. Chuang
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A course on Quantum Information
and Computation by John Preskill [http]
Home Assignments and more
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A Template for Scribing Lecture notes [zip]
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Home Assignment 1 – Due 26/03/07 [pdf]
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Class #6 Notes [pdf]
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Home Assignment 2 – Due 11/06/07 [pdf]
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Home Assignment 3 – Due 31/07/07 15/08/07 [pdf]
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Suggested papers for review – Due 30/09/07 [http]
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New! Lecture Notes are now available [pdf]
Related Papers
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“Quantum Information Theory – Results and Open Problems” by P.W.
Shor [pdf]
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“Quantum Information Theory” – A review paper by C.H. Bennet and
P.W. Shor [http]
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The Holevo bound –
Arguably the first quantum information theoretic result, by A.S. Holevo, 1973 [http]
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“Quantum Coding” – A pioneering paper on quantum source coding by
B. Schumacher, 1995 [http]
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“Sending Classical
Information via Noisy Quantum Channels” – An “early’’ quantum capacity
Theorem
by B. Schumacher and D.
Westmoreland , 1997 [http]
Links
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Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech [http]
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Quantum Information and Information Physics at IBM Research [http]
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Quantiki – A free-content resource in quantum information [http]
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Quantum Information on Wikipedia [http]