This course will cover foundational elements of quantum information theory, including Hilbert space and density operators, tensor products, measurements, channels, entropic measures and entanglement, Bell/CHSH inequality, Holevo information, tensor network representation, unitary circuits, universal gate sets, phase estimation and factoring algorithms, error correction, tomography, BB 84 key distribution, and short- and long-range entanglement.
3 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit
This course will cover foundational elements of quantum information theory, including Hilbert space and density operators, tensor products, measurements, channels, entropic measures and entanglement, Bell/CHSH inequality, Holevo information, tensor network representation, unitary circuits, universal gate sets, phase estimation and factoring algorithms, error correction, tomography, BB84 key distribution, and short- and long-range entanglement.
Offered in Winter 2027 at Stanford University.