16 - 17 Sept: Mathematical principles of Quantum Mechanics
Section outline
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- Principles of QM
- Qubits and their Hilbert space (single and many qubit systems, product and entangled states)
- Bloch sphere representation. Elementary unitary operations on single qubits
Reading: Chap 3 of Notes. For the Bloch sphere representation see also paragraphs in chap 2.8 - 2.10Extra reading: Article above "From Cbits to Qbits..."Class Wednesday 14h15 - 16h room CE 1 3; Exercises Thursday 15h15 - 17h room INF2-
In this handout you can already solve the math of the problems just from the principles taught in class. Physical interpretations of what "polarization" and "interferometers" are will be discussed in the next class.
