The content of this course changes per year and per teacher. The goal of the focus course is to provide MSc students and early PhD students more in-depth knowledge and/or tools on particular quantum hardware as pursued at QuTech.
The 2022/2023 course will be taught by B.M. Terhal and V.V. Dobrovitski, and is named "Quantum Error Correction". We discuss the ideas behind quantum error correction and fault-tolerance such as the threshold theorem, code concatenation, stabiliser and topological codes, fault-tolerant gate constructions, decoding and bosonic codes. There will some hands-on Python exercises of decoding.
Course dates: The course will be given in Delft on Wednesday afternoons (15:45-18:45h) over the period of April 26th until June 7th.
Course details
| Instructor(s) | Prof.dr. B.M Terhal & dr. V.V. Dobrovitski |
| Expected prior knowledge | Fundamentals of Quantum Information or a similar course which covers the basic model of quantum computing (qubits, quantum circuits). Optional: Quantum Hardware I or a course which goes into the physical description of quantum computing. |
| Study Goals | To get in-depth understanding of properties of qubits of a particular quantum computing platform or methods to achieve quantum computing. For 2022/2023: • Obtain deep and clear understanding of the notion of quantum error correction and the tools and concept that have been developed. • Understand how quantum error correction applies to real noise of various sources. • Understand the idea behind fault-tolerance. |
| Education Method | Weekly Lecture + Weekly Exercise Session (which includes numerical work). |
| Literature and Study Materials | Lecture notes and slides. |
| Assessment | For PhDs: TBD. For MSc students: Grades will be established based on weekly assignments (60%) and student presentations (40%). |
| Contact hours | 3 hours per week; 8 weeks |
| Graduate School Credits | 5 GSCs |
QuTech Academy
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Registration
Registration for this course will open beginning April 2023. Your place at the course will be confirmed via email.
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