Quantum Computer Science

Fall 2021 at ENS Lyon

General information

Omar Fawzi (Inria, ENS Lyon)
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This course will covers the basics of quantum information science including algorithms and information theory. We will also cover some selected results from recent research. Prerequisites: Familiarity with linear algebra and probability will be assumed. Prior exposure to quantum information or complexity theory is a plus, but is not assumed.

Resources

[Wat] John Watrous' lecture notes (Introduction to Quantum Computing) The introductory part will follow these notes quite closely
[NC] Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
[KSV] Classical and Quantum Computation
[Chi] Quantum algorithms lecture notes: Andrew Childs' course