Physics 597Q - ST-Quantum Computation

Basic introduction to the field of quantum information and quantum computation, using concrete examples of superconducting qubit systems as a main thread. Covers: Qubits and their driven dynamics; entanglement and teleportation; unitary control and quantum gates; quantum circuits and simple algorithms; density matrices and open quantum systems; superconducting circuit quantization; characterization and tomography; quantum error correction.

Preferred (but not required) prerequisites are Physics 424 and Math 235.