Advanced Topics in Condensed Matter (450-0-1)

Topic

Advanced Quantum Information

Instructors

Archana Kamal

Meeting Info

Technological Institute L158: Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

This course is part-II of two-part series of QI courses, with part-I being the physics of quantum information course (also taught under PHYS 450 in Winter 2026). It can also be taken as a stand alone course, and requires some basic knowledge of linear algebra and quantum computing (mostly quantum gates and operations)**.

**These topics were covered under part-I, and maybe (very) briefly recapped for the benefit of new students.

Registration Requirements

Graduate Quantum Mechanics (I and II), Physics of Quantum Information (Winter 2026) OR special permission from the instructor.

Learning Objectives

Tentative List of Topics:
-Entanglement: 2- and 3-qubit systems, loophole-free Bell tests, no-go theorems, quantum
teleportation and super-dense coding
-Computational complexity: complexity classes (P, BPP, NP), concept of oracle and
query complexity, (extended) Church-Turing thesis, brief introduction to quantum
complexity
-Models of quantum computation: topological QC, cluster-states and measurementbased
QC, adiabatic QC
-Quantum Information Theory: data compression and channel capacity theorems, entropy
and information

Evaluation Method

Homeworks - 60%
Final presentation - 20%
Term paper - 20%

Class Materials (Suggested)

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: M. A. Nielsen and I. L. Chuang
Elements of Information Theory: T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas
Quantum Information Theory: Mark Wilde