ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 15 Interactive Classroom: 10 Total: 28
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: External department linked to the degrees, Particle Physics
Areas: Área externa M.U en Ciencia e Tecnoloxía de Información Cuántica, Theoretical Physics
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
This subject provides the student with theoretical bases and conceptual tools that will be used in many contexts to process information through quantum devices.
After a review of Quantum Mechanics and Classical Theory of Information, the bases of Quantum Theory of Information will be studied.
Special attention will be paid to concepts such as entanglement, correlation, generalized measurements, distinguishability, generalized Bell inequalities, and fundamental bounds to data compression and transmission.
Finally, an introduction to quantum estimation and its figures of merit as bases of quantum metrology will be given.
Learning Outcomes:
Students who take this subject will be able to:
CON_02: Acquire knowledge about quantum systems with many degrees of freedom as a means of storing and processing information.
CON_03: Know the physical bases that allow encoding and processing information. Understanding of the new rules that Quantum Mechanics imposes for its processing.
CON_05: Have knowledge of quantum information theory, universal limitations, and its implications for computing, communications, and metrology.
1- Classical information theory. Shannon's theorems.
2- Information and physics, Landauer's Principle.
3- Review of Quantum Mechanics
4- Entanglement and correlations: Bell's inequalities.
5- Generalized measurements and distinguishability.
6- Quantum circuits: dense coding, teleportation.
7- Quantum entropies. compression and transmission.
8- Elements of quantum metrology, parameter estimation.
Basic Bibliography:
- Class Notes
- Radhika Vathsan, Introduction to Quantum Physics and Information Processing, CRC Press.
Further reading:
-M.A. Nielsen and I.L. Chuang: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge
- B. Schuhmacher, M. Westmoreland, Quantum Processes Systems & Information, Cambridge
The students who take this subject will acquire the abilities and skills of critical and creative thinking, communication and collaborative work that are indicated in the degree verification report (HD0, HD1, HD2, HD3).
In addition to the basic (CB1-CB5), general (CG1-CG4) and transversal (CT1-CT8) skills that are specified in the degree verification report, students will acquire the following specific skills for this subject
Specific Competences:
CE_2: Know and acquire competence in experimental techniques for quantum information processing: interactions, measurements, oscillations, interference, communication systems, ...
CE_3: Understanding and knowledge of the fundamentals of Quantum Information Theory, as well as the basic aspects of the four types of quantum technologies: computing, communications, metrology, simulation.
CE_7: Acquire and know how to apply the basic principles of quantum computing: analyze, understand and implement quantum algorithms, mastering the appropriate computer languages as well as understanding the quantum circuit paradigm.
Classes will be face-to-face and will be broadcast synchronously to the other campuses
- Expositive classes: in them the programmed contents will be explained and any doubts that may arise will be answered. Exercises and problems will be proposed that students must solve in their own working time.
- Interactive classes: resolution of the proposed exercises and problems, sharing doubts. Students will be given prominence to present their results.
- Tutorials: in them the students will be attended in a personalized way to provide them with guidance and resolve their doubts
- Autonomous work: during this time the study of the subject and the resolution of proposed tasks will be carried out.
There will be a virtual platform where essential and supplementary training and information material will be made accessible.
The evaluation of the subject will be a combination of different aspects. The weighting will be set and announced each course within the margins approved in the verification report.
1 - Exams and partial and/or final tests.
Weighting: 40%
2- Continuous evaluation: attendance and participation in expository and interactive classes, delivery of exercises and solved problems, voluntary presentation of results.
Weighting: 60%
"Article 16. Fraudulent performance of exercises or tests.
The fraudulent completion of any exercise or test required in the evaluation of a subject will imply the grade of failure in the corresponding call, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be followed against the offending student. It is considered fraudulent, among other things, the production of works plagiarized or obtained from sources accessible to the public without reworking or reinterpretation and without citations to the authors and sources.”
The subject consists of 3 ECTS, so the total student work hours, including assessment activities, is 75 hours, structured into:
- 15 hours of expository class
- 10 hours of interactive class
- 47 hours of personal student work
- 3 hours of tutorials
Javier Mas Sole
Coordinador/a- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Theoretical Physics
- Phone
- 881813985
- javier.mas [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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