An illustration of the Bloch sphere, which provides a geometrical representation of the pure state space of a 1 qubit quantum register. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Isaac Chuang
Prof. Peter Shor
MIT Course Number
MAS.865J / 6.443J / 8.371J
As Taught In
Spring 2006
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This is an advanced graduate course on quantum computation and quantum information, for which prior knowledge of quantum mechanics is required. Topics include quantum computation, advanced quantum error correction codes, fault tolerance, quantum algorithms beyond factoring, properties of quantum entanglement, and quantum protocols and communication complexity.