Quantum Computation lecture notes

This is the web page for scribe reports of lectures in the 18.435/2.111 course in Quantum Computation, lectured by Peter Shor in Fall 2003.

Typing a scribe report results in a bonus on the student's worst mark from a homework problem set - please email the Teaching Assistant, Chris Rycroft, if you wish to sign up. The notes can be typed up in any format but the use of the scientific typesetting language LaTeX is encouraged. A LaTeX Template, providing a set of standard page headings and some useful macros is available.

If you notice any errors in this web page or the documents themselves, please email Chris Rycroft.

Lecture 2 - Basics of Quantum Mechanics

September 9th - Scribed by Vitaly Feldman.

Available as PDF / Postscript / DVI.

Lecture 4 - Classical Computation Models and Quantum Gates

September 16th - Scribed by Moses Liskov.

Available as Postscript.

Lecture 5 - Quantum Circuits and a Simple Quantum Algorithm

September 18th - Scribed by Dion Harmon.

Available as PDF / Postscript / DVI.

Lecture 10

October 7th - To be scribed by Derik Pridmore.

Lecture 11 - Applications of Grover's Search Algorithm

October 9th - Scribed by Yuan-Chung Cheng.

Available as PDF / Postscript / DVI.

Lecture 12 - Superdense Coding & Quantum Teleportation

October 14th - Scribed by Sebastian Bauer.

Available as PDF / Postscript.

Lecture 13 - Quantum computation models

October 16th - Scribed by Eric Fellheimer.

Available as PDF / Word.

Lecture 14 - Cluster states

October 21st - To be scribed by Ilia Mirkin.

Available as PDF / Postscript / DVI.

Lecture 16 - Quantum error correction

October 30th - Scribed by Dah-Yoh Lim.

Available as PDF / Postscript.

Lecture 17

October 4th - To be scribed by Victor Brar.

Lecture 19 - How to build your own quantum computer (I. Chuang)

November 13th - Scribed by Fen Zhao.

Available as PDF / Postscript / DVI.

Lecture 21

November 20th - To be scribed by Amit Deshpande.

Lecture 22

November 25th - To be scribed by Jim Bickford.

Lecture 23 - Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

December 4th - To be scribed by Jonathan Hodges.

Available as PDF / Postscript / DVI.