Fall 2026         Monday/Wednesday 2:00-3:20  PM       Class Location: Caruth Hall 184

OFFICE HOURS
Monday/Wednesday 2:00PM-3:20PM or by email appointment

7383 GRADUATE VERSION OF CLASS
Students enrolled in the graduate version of this class will have additional requirements to meet in the assigned coursework including exercises, design projects, examinations, and written assignments.

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ECE 5383 Syllabus
ECE 7383 Syllabus

REQUIRED TEXTS
G. Fano and S.M. Blinder, Twenty-First Century Quantum Mechanics: Hilbert Space to Quantum Computers, Springer publishers, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58732-5, 2017 Various papers and materials prepared by the instructor that are available on the Internet.

REFERENCE TEXTS
D.A. Fleisch, A Student's Guide to Waves, Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-64326-0, 2015

D. Fleisch and L. Kinnaman, A Student's Guide to the Schrödinger Equation, Cambridge University Press, DOI: 10.1017/9781108834735, 2020

P. Hamill, A Student's Guide to Lagrangians and Hamiltonians, Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-1-107-61752-0, 2014

OPTIONAL REFERENCE TEXTS
E. Rieffel and W. Polak, Quantum Computing A Gentle Introduction, MIT Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-262-01506-6.

D.C. Marinescu and G.M. Marinescu, Approaching Quantum Computing, Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2005, ISBN 0-13-145224-X, (errata).

M.A. Nielsen and I.L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-107-00217-3.

N.S. Yanofsky and M.A. Mannucci, Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists, Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-879965.

G.P. Berman, G.D. Doolen, R. Mainieri, and V.I. Tsifrinovich, Introduction to Quantum Computers, World Scientific, 1998, ISBN 981-02-3549-6.

A.O. Pittenger, An Introduction to Quantum Computing Algorithms, Birkhauser, 2003, ISBN 0-8176-4127-0.

I. Burda, Introduction to Quantum Computation, Universal Publishers, 2005, ISBN 1-58112-466-X.

G. Chen, D.A. Church, B.-G. Englert, C. Henkel, B. Rohwedder, M.O. Scully, and M.S. Zubairy, Quantum Computing Devices Principles, Designs, and Analysis, Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Mathematics, 2007, ISBN 1-58488-681-1.

A. Graham, Kronecker Products and Matrix Calculus with Applications, Dover Publications, 2018, ISBN 978-0-486-82417-8.

SELECTED IMPORTANT PAPERS IN QUANTUM INFORMATICS
R. Feynman, Simulating Physics with Computers, Int. Jour. Theoretical Physics, vol. 21, nos. 6/7, 1982, pp. 467-488.

D. Deutsch, Quantum Theory, the Church-Turing Principle and the Universal Quantum Computer, Proc. of the Royal Society of London A 400, pp. 97-117, 1985.

A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen, Can Quantum-Mechnical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?, Physical Review, vol. 47, May 15, 1935, pp. 777-780, (the EPR paper).

J.S. Bell, On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox, Physics, 1, 1964, pp. 195-200.

A. Aspect, J. Dalibard, and G. Roger, Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time-Varying Analyzers, Physical Review Letters, vol. 49, no. 25, Dec. 1982, pp. 1804-1807.

A. Barenco, et al., Elementary Gates for Quantum Computation, quant-ph archive, March 1995.

G. Cybenko, Reducing Quantum Computations to Elementary Unitary Operations, Computing in Science and Engineering, March/April 2001.

D. Coppersmith, An Approximate Fourier Transform Useful in Quantum Factoring, IBM Research Report RC 19642, July 1994.

P. Shor, Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer, arXiv:quant-ph/9508027v2, 1995, (SIAM J. Sci. Statist. Comput. 26 (1997) 1484).

L. Grover, A Fast Quantum Mechanical Algorithm for Database Search, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, pp. 212-219, 1996.

LOW-TECHNICAL READING/HISTORY RECOMMENDATIONS (not required)
A.D. Aczel, Entanglement The Greatest Mystery in Physics, Raincoast Books, 2002, ISBN 1-55192-549-4.

G.J. Milburn, The Feynman Processor, Perseus Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7382-0173-1.

J. Brown, The Quest for the Quantum Computer, Simon & Schuster, 2000, ISBN 0-684-87004-5.

L. Lederman, The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?, 1993, ISBN: 0-385-31211-3.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Quantum Informatics is the discipline concerned with methods to represent information in a unique way based on the properties of quantum mechanics. While the concept of quantum informatics is not new, the emergence and availability of useable technology is becoming more common. Quantum informatics areas such as computation, communication, sensing and metrology are introduced with a foundation in the use of the quantum state as a means to represent information. This class is designed to introduce engineering and computer science students to these exciting and newly emerging topics as well as to provide well-grounded mathematical models and an introduction to the underlying technology. No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics or quantum informatics is required for this class.

COURSE CATALOG DESCRIPTION
An introduction for engineering and computer science students to quantum informatics, the discipline concerned with methods to communicate, to sense, and to transform data represented in a unique way based on the properties of quantum mechanics. Also includes a well-grounded introduction to implementation technology. No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics or quantum informatics is required for this class. Prerequisite: ECE 3381 or equivalent, introduction to undergraduate-level linear algebra, undergraduate university physics sequence, or consent of instructor.

PREREQUISITES
ECE 3381 or equivalent, introduction to undergraduate-level linear algebra, undergraduate university calculus-based physics sequence, or consent of instructor.

WEB RESOURCES
Quantum Physics Paper Archive

ADMINISTRATION
Class Schedule
Grading Policy (student acknowledgement form)
Presentation/Project Suggestions

TOPICS
 - Introduction and coneptual understanding of information from a physical point of view
 - Review of Pertinent Topics in Linear and Tensor Algebra and Probability
 - Review of Pertinent Topics in Physics
 - Quantum Harmonic Oscillators
 - Hamiltonians and Schrödinger's Equation
 - Qubits, Qudits: Observables, Pure State Vectors, Superposition and Entanglement
 - Projective Measurement
 - Review of Classical (Shannon) Information Theory
 - Discrete Variable (DV) Quantum Information
 - Reversibility and Quantum Operators/Gates
 - Superdense Coding; Teleportation; Quantum Key Distribution
 - Density Matrices and Mixed States
 - Quantum (Von Neuman) Information Theory
 - Introduction to DV Quantum Computation
 - Technological Implementations: Photonic, Superconducting Semiconductor and Ion Trap Qubits