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Quantum Information (QI)
PHSCS 513R, Fall 2011
Tue-Thu 9:00-9:50 a.m.
261 ROTC
http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/vanhuele/Teaching/five/513QI11/outline.htm
Introductions
Who am I?
Why am I here?
What do I hope to achieve in 513R?
What special skills do I have?
Quantum – What does that mean?
Perspectives: The road to QI
Classical Physics…Galileo
Quantum Physics…Planck
Classical Computation…Turing
Classical Information…Shannon
Quantum computation…Feynman
Quantum measurement…von Neumann
Quantum Foundations… (Einstein &) J.S. Bell
Entanglement…Schroedinger
Special Topics in Physics
(PHSCS 222 prerequisite)
What are frontier topics in physics?
Do they impact QI?
Are they impacted by QI?
How do I pass this 513R class?
What will we do?
CP, HW, IP, MT, F
How do you communicate?
Sources for QI?
(Linear Algebra prerequisite)
What is Linear Algebra?
Sources: pop, intro, grad
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David Deutsch: The fabric of reality
Louisa Gilder: Quantum Entanglement
Robert Scully: The Demon and the Quantum
Anton Zeilinger: Dance of the Photons
Arthur Greenstein: The Quantum Challenge
Sagawa and Yoshida: Fundamentals of QI
Valerio Scarani: Six Quantum Pieces
Vlatko Vedral: Introduction to QI
Gennnaro Auletta: Foundation and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Benenti, Casati, and Strini: Principles of Q Computation and Information
Eugen Merzbacher: Quantum Mechanics
Nielsen and Chuang: Q Computation and QI
Maximilian Schlosshauer: Decoherence
Mark Silverman: Quantum Superposition