Title: Quantum Information
ECTS points: 7.5
Institution: the Niels Bohr Institute
Schedule: Mondays and Thursdays, April 21st-June 13th 2008 (running every year in the period April-June)
Assessment: oral exam
Responsible: Anders S. Sørensen (NBI); Eugene Polzik (NBI)
Content
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Quantum Information aims at exploiting quantum mechanics to perform certain tasks (computation, measurements, communication, etc.) more efficiently than it is allowed by classical physics. The course will give an introduction to quantum information as well as to some of the physical systems where implementation of quantum information processing is being attempted. Special attention will be on quantum optical systems (atoms, ions, and photons). The quantum information topics, which will be covered, include quantum computation, entanglement, quantum cryptography, teleportation, quantum memory, and quantum measurements. We will mainly discuss implementations in ion traps, photons, and atomic ensembles, but liquid Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and solid state systems might also be discussed briefly.
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