Quantum Information Winter 2025/26

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Walter Strunz

Lectures and Tutorials:

• Lectures:
• Monday 5.DS (14.50 - 16.20 hrs) BZW/A120
• Thursday 4.DS (13.00 - 14.30 hrs) REC/B214/H
• Tutorial:
• Thursday 4.DS (13.00 - 14.30 hrs)  REC/B214/H; (we alternate between lectures and tutorials on Thursdays)

Certificate of attendance for (hand-)written problem solving (hand-ins) and presentation in tutorials.

Content

1. Introduction
2. Quantum states, geometry, entanglement, correlations, non-locality
3. Quantum communication
4. Quantum computation
5. Quantum noise
6. Information, entropy and capacity

Literature -- all relevant books in small numbers available in SLUB. Additional literature will be provided during the course ....

• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Cambridge) by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang  https://katalog.slub-dresden.de/id/0-160947600X/#detail

• Quantum Information Theory (Cambridge University Press), by Mark M. Wilde https://katalog.slub-dresden.de/id/0-728740230/#detail

• Quantum Processes, Systems, & Information (Cambridge University Press), by Ben Schumacher and Michael Westmoreland https://katalog.slub-dresden.de/id/0-610089722/#detail

• Quantum Computing since Democritus (Cambridge University Press), by Scott Aaronson