Overview of Quantum Computation

Two lectures on quantum computation have been presented to undergraduate physics students at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Latvia on 18th and 25th of October, 2000.

Here your can find:

Transparencies of the 1st lecture (Adobe PDF, 15 pages, 400 Kb)
Transparencies of the 2nd lecture (Adobe PDF, 17 pages, 385 Kb)
Homework (Adobe PDF, 1 page, 44 Kb)

A popular article about quantum computers has been published in "Terra" magazine (V.Kashchejevs, "Kvantu revolucija datorzinatnes", Terra, December 2000).

Some links to other sites on Quantum Computation:

Celebration of the 100 year annivesary of Quantum mechnics http://www.kfi.lu.lv/~chemphys/km100/
The Centre of Quantum Computation http://www.qubit.org/ (nice tutorials and lots of links)
Quantum and Foundational Physics (A.Zeilinger) http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/ (experiments with the entagled states, teleportation)
Course of Quantum Computation by John Preskill http://theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/ (more than 400 pages of lecture notes, sets of problems with solutions, links)

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Last modified on May 4, 2001