Quantum Information

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Understand basic quantum algorithms
• Understand what is entanglement for pure and mixed states
• Learn how to store, process, and read information using two-level quantum systems (qubits)
• Understand quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography
• Understand the principles of quantum metrology and what is quantum Fisher information
• Learn how to store, process and read information using continuous variables (position and momentum). Learn how to use the covariance matrix formalism.

A revision of quantum mechanics with a quantum information flavour: storing, processing and reading information.

Qubits (Bloch Sphere interpretation).

Quantum gates and measurements: Unitary evolution, quantum gates, quantum circuits, no-cloning theorem

Quantifying quantum correlations and entanglement for pure and mixed states

Quantum teleportation

Quantum cryptography

Quantum algorithms (such as Shor’s Algorithm)

Quantum metrology, classical and quantum Fischer information, applications

Continuous variable quantum information and metrology

Physical implementations for quantum information: Cavity QED, Ion Trap, Superconducting circuits

Lecture

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.