Category: Logistics and administration

2023 Fall – Advanced Quantum Computing

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Hello! Welcome to my site for quantum computing.

Please note that I am not the instructor for this semester’s advanced quantum computing course. The course is being taught by Prof. Wenchao Ge from the University of Rhode Island. UMass Dartmouth students should access the lectures via a link that will be provided soon.

You can find the syllabus here.

You can also click on the syllabus link in the site panel.

I will be providing some support on the UMass Dartmouth side, including an office hour which is TBA.

 

 

Due Dates Reminders

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After our meeting today I remembered that I got rid of the class schedule! So I’ll post some due dates here:

Homeworks: These are due every week on Friday unless I announce otherwise.

Project outline: Due the week before spring break. Friday (3/5) of that week at the latest.

Project outline presentation: The week after spring break. Details TBD.

Project report: Due last week of finals.

Project report presentation: Last week of finals. Details TBD.

Welcome to the Spring 2021 Quantum Information and Computing Class!

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Hello and welcome to my course on quantum information and computing (phy 410/510) for the 2021 spring semester. This site will serve as a central hub from which you can access my basic info (name, email, and whatnot), notes, videos, the lecture schedule, and assignments. If I’m feeling inspired, I may occasionally post links to interesting quantum-related things I’ve come across and given the time and energy, write some posts exploring issues related to our class discussions.

I’m really excited about this course, and why not? It’s an amazing subject in so many different ways. Here are a few:

  1. The technological side of quantum computing and communication is very real and huge advances are being made year-by-year if not month-by-month!
  2. Quantum information and computing most likely establish a completely new basis for computing in general, dramatically impacting our abilities to solve certain types of problems that are (likely) intractable using only classical computing. (Why do I write “likely”? Something worth thinking about!)
  3. The quantum computing/information approach to quantum theory has helped to illuminate some of the famously murky conceptual underpinnings of the theory. New modes of conceptualizing quantum theory lead to interesting new ways to teach the subject that are in many ways much more accessible than the traditional approach you would learn in a standard quantum physics course.

There are many more reasons that this area is fun and exciting and I’m looking forward to sharing them with you. I’m also quite interested in the ideas that the subject sparks among you as we explore it this semester.

 

Hello PHY 421, Welcome to Quantum Computing!

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Hello class,

To make finding our module’s notes and recordings a bit easier than just tracking things down via email, I’m going to post links and other material to my quantum website. You can find the links to recordings of our Zoom meetings by clicking on the link on the upper-right part of the page called “Class Recording Links”. You can also click below:

https://quantum.sites.umassd.edu/class-recording-links/

On this page’s sidebar, there is a link to a shared folder where you can find the PDF associated with the notes I generate during our discussions.

If you want to get in touch with me, my email handle is dkagan with the usual @umassd.edu.