Quantum Computing: Lecture Notes

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Quantum Computing: Lecture NotesRonald de WolfQuSoft, CWI and University of [quant-ph] 11 Jan 2022Dedicated to the memory of my fatherAbraham de Wolf (1942 2019)iiPreface from 2011These Lecture Notes were formed in small chunks during my Quantum computing course at theUniversity of Amsterdam, Feb-May 2011, and compiled into one text thereafter. Each chapterwas covered in a Lecture of 2 45 minutes, with an additional 45-minute Lecture for exercises andhomework. The first half of the course (Chapters 1 7) covers Quantum algorithms, the second halfcovers Quantum complexity (Chapters 8 9), stuff involving Alice and Bob (Chapters 10 13), anderror-correction (Chapter 14). A 15th Lecture about physical implementations and general outlookwas more sketchy, and I didn t write Lecture Notes for chapters may also be read as a general introduction to the area of Quantum computationand information from the perspective of a theoretical computer scientist.

the general area, the book of John Watrous [180] for quantum information theory, and the lecture notes of John Preskill [149] for the theoretical physics perspective. Attribution, acknowledgments, subsequent updates Most of the material in Chapters 1{6 [chapter numbers in this paragraph are for the 2011 version]

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