Advanced Quantum computing

Lecture and tutorial classes in the summer term

Outline

  • Postulates of quantum mechanics, \ac{CPT} maps
  • Quantum gates, universality, Solovay-Kitaev theorem
  • Clifford group and Gottesman-Knill theorem 
  • Basic noise models
  • Stabilizer quantum error correction codes and examples
  • Transversal gate sets and the Eastin-Knill theorem
  • The threshold theorem and basic ideas of fault-tolerant quantum computation
  • Hamiltonian simulation (what quantum computers are really good at)
  • Quantum signal processing