University of Bristol - Department of Mathematics TCC: Quantum Information Theory Lecturers: Prof Andreas Winter and Dr Marcin Pawłowski

• Lectures from 30 January 2012 (University of Bristol teaching week 13): Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 14-15 TCC video-conferencing room (1st floor Maths main building). Special announcements:
  • No lecture Monday 30 January 2012 because of technical problems.
  • No lecture Wednesday 1 February 30 2012 because of 2nd Heilbronn Quantum Algorithms Day.
  • No lectures 27, 28 and 29 February because of absence/illness.
  • On Wednesday 14 March no lecture; instead Physics Theory seminar in Bristol by Sandu Popescu (2:15pm, Physics room 3.34).
  • No lecture on Monday 19 March.
  • Last two lectures of the course Tuesday/Wednesday 20/21 March.
• The syllabus blurb.
• A detailed plan for AW's part of the course.
• Handouts: ...maybe later.
• Example sheets:
  • Problem sheet 1 (Hilbert space and states).
  • Problem sheet 2 (Norms, entropy).
• Lecture notes as on the electronic whiteboard:
  • Lecture 1 (31 January)
  • Lecture 2 (6 February)
  • Lecture 3 (7 February)
  • Lecture 4 (8 February)
  • Lecture 5 (13 February)
  • Lecture 6 (14 February)
  • Lecture 7 (15 February)
  • Lecture 8 (20 February)
  • Lecture 9 (21 February)
  • Lecture 10 (22 February)
  • Lecture 11 (5 March)
  • Lecture 12 (6 March)
  • Lecture 13 (7 March)
  • Lecture 14 (12 March)
  • Lecture 15 (13 March)
  • Lecture 16 (20 March)
  • Lecture 17 (21 March)
• Some resources related to quantum information theory:
  • C. E. Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 27, pp. 379-423 and 623-656, 1948. It's classical, but it helps a lot to understand the quantum information theory.
  • M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • M. Hayashi, Quantum Information: An Introduction, Springer, 2006.
  • M. M. Wilde, From Classical to Quantum Shannon Theory. Manuscript for a textbook, 2011.
  • J. Preskill, Caltech course lecture notes.

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