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These are ancient lecture notes for an introductory undergraduate course on quantum computing taught at the University of Calgary in Spring 2006. They are not being maintained.
Latest update: April 11, 2006
All 22 lectures in one file (139 pages) [pdf]
| 1. | Overview of quantum information [pdf] |
| 2. | Overview of quantum information (continued) [pdf] |
| 3. | Superdense coding; quantum circuits, and partial measurements [pdf] |
| 4. | Quantum teleportation; Deutsch's algorithm [pdf] |
| 5. | A simple searching algorithm; the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm [pdf] |
| 6. | Simon's algorithm [pdf] |
| 7. | Arithmetic/number-theoretic problems; reversible computation [pdf] |
| 8. | Phase estimation [pdf] |
| 9. | Phase estimation (continued); the quantum Fourier transform [pdf] |
| 10. | Order finding [pdf] |
| 11. | Order finding (continued); reducing factoring to order finding [pdf] |
| 12. | Grover's algorithm [pdf] |
| 13. | Grover’s Algorithm (continued) [pdf] |
| 14. | Quantum information revisited [pdf] |
| 15. | Quantum information revisited (continued) [pdf] |
| 16. | Quantum error correction [pdf] |
| 17. | General quantum errors; CSS codes [pdf] |
| 18. | Quantum key distribution [pdf] |
| 19. | Impossibility of quantum bit commitment [pdf] |
| 20. | Bell inequalities and nonlocality [pdf] |
| 21. | Quantum communication complexity [pdf] |
| 22. | Quantum computational complexity [pdf] |
©2006 John Watrous