Sumários

7 Março 2022, 16:30 • André Souto

Quantum memories and more than one qubit.

Formal definition, measurement, partial measurement.

Examples of measurement.

Recap on examples of sinlge qubit unitary operations: Hadamard, phase shift, rotations, Pauli gates.

Presentation of more than one qubit operators.

Independent operations on qubits and operations over multiple qubits at once.

Composition of unitary operations.

Examples: CNot, Controled-U, Tofolli, swap.

Presentation of Jupiter notebooks with all the examples.

21 Fevereiro 2022, 18:30 • André Souto

We used this first practical class to finish the theoretical part by presenting examples of unitary operators and measurements.

21 Fevereiro 2022, 16:30 • André Souto

Presentation of evaluation rules;

Presentation of the contents of the course;

Bibliography.

Introduction to quantum computation.

Motivation to study quantum computation.

The power of quantum: superposition, entanglement and interference.
The basic information unit: the qubit.

Presentation through the double-split experiment;

Realization of a qubit as levels of energy in electrons and spins of photons;

The Bloch sphere and a two-dimension geometric interpretation for real coefficients.

Formal definition;
Evolution of a qubit:

1) by observing qubits:

- measurements in the computational basis;

2) by unitary operations:

- properties;

- examples of unitary operations.

Tour through linear algebra and Dirac's notation.