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General

08.31.14
  Syllabus

Last modified by: Scott Aaronson

10.14.14
  Course Project Guide

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Scribe Notes

08.28.14
  Lecture 1: Quantum Basics

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08.28.14
  Lecture 2: More Quantum Basics

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  Lecture 3: Quantum Circuits

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  Lecture 4: BQP and Classical Friends

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  Lecture 5: Quantum Algorithms -- Deutsch-Jozsa

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  Lecture 6: Quantum Algorithms -- Simon's Algorithmm

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  Lecture 7: Shor's Algorithm and the Hidden Subgroup Problem

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  Lecture 8: Hidden Subgroup Problem and Grover's Algorithm

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  Lecture 9: Grover's Algorithm and BBBV

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  Lecture 10: Quantum Query Complexity Lower Bounds

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  Lecture 11: More Quantum Query Complexity

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  Lecture 12: Query Complexity and the Collision Problem

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  Lecture 13: The Collision Problem

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08.28.14
  Lecture 14: BQP vs PH and QMA

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  Lecture 15: QMA

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  Lecture 16: QMA and Variants

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  Lecture 17: QIP

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  Lecture 18: PostBQP

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  Lecture 19: Closed Timelike Curves

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  Lecture 20: BQP/qpoly

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  Lecture 21: Quantum Communication Complexity

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  Lecture 22: More Quantum Communication Complexity

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  Lecture 23: Classical Simulation

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  Lecture 24: Grab Bag

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08.28.14
  Noninteracting Particle Computation slides

Slides for the 10/26 lecture 

Last modified by: Aleksandr Arkhipov

Reading

08.28.14
  Quantum Computational Complexity

Excellent survey article by John Watrous 

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08.28.14
  Quantum Complexity Theory

The seminal paper by Bernstein and Vazirani that started the whole BQP business 

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08.28.14
  Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantum Computation

The paper by Bennett, Bernstein, Brassard, and Vazirani that proved BQPBQP=BQP and constructed an oracle relative to which NP⊄BQP 

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08.28.14
  Quantum Lower Bounds by Polynomials

By Beals, Buhrman, Cleve, Mosca, and de Wolf -- one of the classic papers on quantum lower bounds. 

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08.28.14
  Quantum Lower Bounds by Quantum Arguments

By Andris Ambainis. 

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08.28.14
  Succinct Quantum Proofs for Properties of Finite Groups

by John Watrous 

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08.28.14
  Parallelization, Amplification, and Exponential Time Simulation of QIP Systems

by Kitaev and Watrous. 

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Previous Course Projects

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  Alex Arkhipov: Universal Quantum Gates

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  Joshua Horowitz: An Introduction to Quantum Cellular Automata

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08.28.14
  Brendan Juba: On Learning Finite-State Quantum Sources

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08.28.14
  Bhaskar Mookerji: Distributed Problems in Quantum Communication

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TeX files

08.28.14
  Syllabus

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Homework

09.09.14
  Problem Set 1: Basic Training for the BQP Army

Due: September 25 2014 11:59 p.m.

09.29.14
  Pset2: Quantum Algorithms and Lower Bounds

Due: October 16 2014 11:59 p.m.

10.17.14
  Problem Set 3: Quantum Lower Bounds and Quantum Proofs

Due: November 06 2014 11:59 p.m.

12.10.14
  Final Project Report

Due: December 11 2014 11:59 p.m.