(Formerly numbered 238.) (Same as Quantum Science and Technology M205.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisite: Mathematics 115A. History of quantum computing; notion of qubit; four postulates that provide interface to quantum mechanics; concepts of quantum circuit and universal gate set; quantum teleportation; superdense coding; no-cloning theorem; suite of fundamental quantum algorithms including Shor's algorithm, Grover's algorithm, and quantum approximate optimization algorithm; several quantum programming languages and how they compare; quantum simulators; quantum compilers; quantum error correction; quantum advantage. Students implement several quantum algorithms in multiple languages and run them on both simulators and quantum computer. Letter grading.

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Jens Palsberg
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23F 22F

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