Lecture Notes for 8.370/18.435 Quantum Computation from Fall 2022

Peter Shor

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Lecture Notes

Here are the 2022 Lecture notes. I never got around to writing the notes for
Lecture 26 — I may or may not do that at some point in the future.

Lecture 1
— Introduction and History
Lecture 2
— The Superposition Principle
Lecture 3
— Unitary Evolution and the Bloch Sphere

Lecture 4
— Quantum Measurements

Lecture 5
— Joint Quantum Systems and Tensor Products

Lecture 6
— More Tensor Products (Measurements of Joint Systems)

Lecture 7
— Classical Boolean circuits

Lecture 8
— Reversible Boolean circuits

Lecture 9
— Quantum gates I

Lecture 10
— Quantum gates II

Lecture 11
— Quantum Teleportation

Lecture 12
— Density Matrices I

Lecture 13
— Density Matrices II

Lecture 14
— The GHZ Experiment (theory)

Lecture 15
— Quantum Optics and the GHZ Experiment

Lecture 16
— The Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm

Lecture 17
— Classical computational complexity theo