Quantum Computation and Information

Engineering & Social Sciences Program
Madrid, Spain

Dates: early Sep 2025 - mid Dec 2025

Engineering & Social Sciences

Quantum Computation and Information

Quantum Computation and Information Course Overview

OVERVIEW

CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Physics
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 18324
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Linear algebra, Quantum physics, Advaced quantum physics

DESCRIPTION

1. Review of Quantum Mechanics.
- Dirac matricial formalism.
- Evolution of quantum states.
- Density matrix.
- Quantum measurement.
- Quantum phase.
- EPR Paradox and Bell theorem.
- Quantum systems and entanglement.
2. Introduction to Computer Science.
- Turing machines.
- Computational circuits.
- Logic gates.
3. Quantum computational circuits.
- The qubit.
- Qubit operations.
- Quantum gates.
- Open QSAM: a language for the Quantum Experience (QX) by IBM.
4. Quantum algorithms.
- Quantum parallelism.
- Deutsch algorithm.
- Quantum Fourier transform.
- Shor algorithm.
- Quantum search algorithms.
5. Quantum information.
- Quantum noise.
- Quantum operations.
- Quantum error-correction.
- Quantum information and Shannon entropy.
6. Quantum data compression.
7. Quantum cryptography


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