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Department of Physics Course Announcement for Fall 2009
Selected Topics: Quantum Computing
Instructor: Ben Yu-Kuang Hu
E-mail: byhu@uakron.edu, Ext.: 8093
Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Room: To Be Arranged
This course will introduce the basic ideas of quantum computing, a field that has recently been garnering rapidly increasing attention in the physics, computer science, applied mathematics and other communities. This course will cover quantum computer algorithms, quantum error correction and possible physical realizations of quantum computers.
Prerequisites: Basic linear algebra (e.g., matrix multiplication, eigenvalues, eigenvectors), knowledge of properties of complex numbers [e.g., ]. There are no physics prerequisites. Knowledge of quantum mechanics is helpful but not required; the quantum mechanics necessary for this course will be introduced at the beginning.
Textbook [tentative]: N. David Mermin, “Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction” (Cambridge, 2007).
Course number: 3650: 488 (undergraduate) and 3650: 698 (graduate)
List of Topics [tentative]:
• Introduction to quantum mechanics of discrete states, Dirac notation
• Qubits
• Entangled states
• Quantum factorization and cryptography
• Quantum search algorithms
• Decoherence and quantum error correction
• Qubit manipulation, NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) and other methods for possibly realizing quantum computers.
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are currently looking for contact information of former Graduate Students of Prof. Ernst von Meerwall from the Physics Department. As you maybe aware, Dr. von Meerwall recently retired. I think they would like to arrange a "reunion" in the near future for his grad students.
Dennis S. Bradley
Class of '91 & 93, A&S - Physics
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