1. Quantum Information (QI) PHSCS 513R, Fall 2011 Tue-Thu 9:00-9:50 a.m. 261 ROTC http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/vanhuele/Teaching/five/513QI- 11/outline.htm

2. Introductions Who am I? Why am I here? What do I hope to achieve in 513R? What special skills do I have?

3. Quantum – What does that mean?

4. Classical Physics…Galileo Quantum Physics…Planck Classical Computation…Turing Classical Information…Shannon Quantum computation…Feynman Quantum measurement…von Neumann Quantum Foundations… (Einstein &) J.S. Bell Entanglement…Schroedinger Perspectives: The road to QI

5. Special Topics in Physics (PHSCS 222 prerequisite) What are frontier topics in physics? Do they impact QI? Are they impacted by QI?

6. How do I pass this 513R class? What will we do? CP, HW, IP, MT, F How do you communicate? Sources for QI? (Linear Algebra prerequisite) What is Linear Algebra?

7. Sources: pop, intro, grad David Deutsch: The fabric of reality Louisa Gilder: Quantum Entanglement Robert Scully: The Demon and the Quantum Anton Zeilinger: Dance of the Photons Arthur Greenstein: The Quantum Challenge Sagawa and Yoshida: Fundamentals of QI Valerio Scarani: Six Quantum Pieces Vlatko Vedral: Introduction to QI Gennnaro Auletta: Foundation and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Benenti, Casati, and Strini: Principles of Q Computation and Information Eugen Merzbacher: Quantum Mechanics Nielsen and Chuang: Q Computation and QI Maximilian Schlosshauer: Decoherence Mark Silverman: Quantum Superposition