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Lecture Notes

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SES # TOPICS Students
1 Quantum Operations; Operator Sum Representation; System-Environment Model (PDF)# Kayla Jacobs
2 Quantum Error Correction - Criteria and Examples (PDF) Jennifer Novosad
3 Calderbank Shor Steane Codes (PDF)# Saikat Guha
4 Stabilizers; Stabilizer Quantum Codes (PDF)# Kayla Jacobs
5 Topological Quantum Codes; Kitaev's Anyon Model (PDF)# Igor Sylvester
6 Stabilizers II; Computing on Quantum Codes (PDF)# Danial Lashkari
7 Concatenated Codes; The Threshold Theorem (PDF)# Salman Abolfathe
8 Cluster State Quantum Computation (PDF)# Kayla Jacobs
9 Measurement and Teleportation Based Quantum Computation (PDF)# Kayla Jacobs
10 Adiabatic Quantum Computation (PDF) Edward Platt
11 Quantum Algorithms on Graphs; Quantum Random Walks (PDF) Isaac Kim
12 Quantum Algorithms: The Abelian Hidden Subgroup Problem; QFT Over Sn (PDF)# Kayla Jacobs
13 The Nonabelian HSP; Hidden Dihedral Group; Positive and Negative Results (PDF)# Igor Sylvestor
14 Channels I: Quantum Data Compression; Entanglement Concentration; Typical Subspaces (PDF)# Stephen Jordan
15 Channels II: Holevo's Theorem; HSW Theorem; Entanglement Assisted Channel Capacity (PDF)# Saikat Guha
16 Channels III: Quantum-Quantum Channels, Mother/Father Protocol; Distillable Entanglement (PDF)# Kayla Jacobs
17 Entanglement as a Physical Resource (PDF)# Igor Sylvestor
18 Quantum Protocols - Quantum Communication Complexity; Distributed Algorithms (PDF)# Jennifer Novosad
19 Quantum Games (PDF)# Kayla Jacobs
20 Quantum Cryptography (PDF) Edward Platt
21-22 Project Meetings
23-26 Project Presentations