{"id":262,"date":"2006-05-24T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T12:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/24\/quantum-computing-for-undergra\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T12:14:33","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T12:14:33","slug":"quantum-computing-for-undergra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/24\/quantum-computing-for-undergra\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing for Undergrads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1238\">Dave Bacon asks<\/a>, I answer. Well, OK, Dave was asking how one would go about teaching quantum computing to CS undergrads, while what I provide here is a set of lectures on presenting quantum computing ideas to undergrad physics majors in my Quantum Optics class. But, really, isn&#8217;t that almost the same thing (don&#8217;t answer that).<\/p>\n<p>The notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-7c4842ad56aa31180c9a00da734c38d7-Lecture17.pdf\">Lecture 17<\/a>: Computing theory, logic gates, quantum gates, entangling operations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-0910e5b28f502d98fb53166250d2ab63-Lecture18.pdf\">Lecture 18<\/a>: Quantum algorithms, the Deutsch-Josza algorithm.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-396d116818b209e8f0991c7cc6a74cf8-Lecture19.pdf\">Lecture 19<\/a>: Physical implementations of quantum computing, the DiVincenzo Criteria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This more or less concludes the lectures for the class&#8211; the final two weeks will be devoted to in-class oral presentations about student research projects. There&#8217;s one more lecture, a not-entirely-successful class on density matrices and decoherence, that I&#8217;ll post when I get someone to scan it in for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Bacon asks, I answer. Well, OK, Dave was asking how one would go about teaching quantum computing to CS undergrads, while what I provide here is a set of lectures on presenting quantum computing ideas to undergrad physics majors in my Quantum Optics class. But, really, isn&#8217;t that almost the same thing (don&#8217;t answer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/24\/quantum-computing-for-undergra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quantum Computing for Undergrads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum_optics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}