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New Elective Course: Quantum Computing

New Elective Course: Quantum Computing

This new 3-credit elective course at GVSU for undergraduate and graduate students is designed to introduce students to the hottest field of quantum computing - a fusion of beautiful ideas of quantum physics, math, and computer science. The course will provide students with the conceptual foundation to understand new quantum-infused concepts and technology for research and work on quantum information science and quantum computing in industry, academia, or research labs.

Course Topics

  1. Review of Linear Algebra
  2. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
  3. General state of a qubit, entanglement, Bell states, and no-cloning theorem
  4. EPR, Bell’s inequality, and Local Realism
  5. Classical and Quantum gates
  6. Generating and measuring Bell States
  7. Quantum functions and quantum parallelism
  8. Quantum Algorithms
  9. Discrete Fourier transform
  10. Quantum Fourier Transform with qubits
  11. Shor’s Algorithm
  12. Quantum cryptography

Please read the article:

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202404/quantum.cfm

 

 

Interest Area(s)
Mathematics, Computer Science (Applied Computer Science), Physics

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