Spring 2020         Monday 6:30-9:20  PM       Class Location: Caruth Hall 179

OFFICE HOURS
Monday 5:30PM-6:30PM or by email appointment

7395 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.

DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS
Students who need academic accommodations for a disability must first register with Disability Accommodations & Success Strategies (DASS). Students can call 214-768-1470 or visit http://www.smu.edu/Provost/SASP/DASS to begin the process. Once they are registered and approved, students then submit a DASS Accommodation Letter through the electronic portal, DASS Link, and then communicate directly with each of their instructors to make appropriate arrangements. Please note that accommodations are not retroactive, but rather require advance notice in order to implement.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT
All forms of sexual harassment, including sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking, are violations of SMU’s Title IX Sexual Harassment Policy and may also violate Texas law. Students who wish to file a complaint or to receive more information about the grievance process may contact Samantha Thomas, SMU’s Title IX Coordinator, at accessequity@smu.edu or 214-768-3601. Please note that faculty and staff are mandatory reporters. If students notify faculty or staff of sexual harassment, they must report it to the Title IX Coordinator. For more information about sexual harassment, including resources available to assist students, please visit http://www.smu.edu/sexualmisconduct.

PREGNANT AND PARENTING STUDENTS
Under Title IX, students who are pregnant or parenting may request academic adjustments by contacting Elsie Johnson (elsiej@smu.edu) in the Office of the Dean of Students, or by calling 214-768-4564. Students seeking assistance must schedule an appointment with their professors as early as possible, present a letter from the Office of the Dean of Students, and make appropriate arrangements. Please note that academic adjustments are not retroactive and, when feasible, require advance notice to implement.

RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE
Religiously observant students wishing to be absent on holidays that require missing class should notify their professors in writing at the beginning of the semester and should discuss with them, in advance, acceptable ways of making up any work missed because of the absence. Click here for a list of holidays.

COVID-19 AND OTHER MEDICAL-RELATED ABSENCES
Students who test positive for COVID-19 and need to isolate, or who are notified of potential exposure, must follow SMU’s Contact Tracing Protocol. To ensure academic continuity and avoid any course penalties, students should follow the same procedures described by their instructors as they would for any other medical-related absence in order to be provided with appropriate modifications to assignments, deadlines, and exams.

EXCUSED ABSENCES FOR UNIVERSITY EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Students participating in an officially sanctioned, scheduled university extracurricular activity should be given the opportunity to make up class assignments or other graded assignments that were missed as a result of their participation. It is the responsibility of the student to make arrangements for make-up work with the instructor prior to any missed scheduled examinations or other missed assignments. (See 2020-2021 SMU Undergraduate Catalog under “Enrollment and Academic Records/Excused Absences.”)

FINAL EXAMS
Final course examinations shall be given in all courses where appropriate, and some form of final assessment is essential. Final exams and assessments must be administered as specified in the official examination schedule. Exams cannot be administered or due during the last week of classes or during the Reading Period. Syllabi must state clearly the form of the final exam or assessment, and the due date and time must match the official SMU exam schedule. Final exams are not required to be provided online.

STUDENT ACADEMIC SUCCESS PROGRAMS
Students needing assistance with writing assignments for SMU courses may schedule an appointment with the Writing Center through Canvas. Students who would like support for subject-specific tutoring or success strategies should contact SASP, Loyd All Sports Center, Suite 202; 214-768-3648; https://www.smu.edu/sasp.

CARING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS PROGRAM
CCC is a resource for anyone in the SMU community to refer students of concern to the Office of the Dean of Students. The online referral form can be found at smu.edu/deanofstudentsccc. After a referral form is submitted, students will be contacted to discuss the concern, strategize options, and be connected to appropriate resources. Anyone who is unclear about what steps to take if they have concerns about students should either consult the CCC Reference Guide or contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 214-768-4564.

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

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 Schrodinger 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

OTHER 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, 2000, ISBN 0-521-63503-9.

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, Ellis Horwood Limited, Halstead Press, John Wiley and Sons, 1981, ISBN 0-85312-391-8.

PAPERS

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.

READING/HISTORY

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 communicate, to sense, and to transform data represented 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 just beginning to occur. In 2017, the government of China launched the Micius satellite that quickly demonstrated the feasibility of secure global communications using quantum information for the first time. In early 2019, IBM unveiled the world’s first generalized universal quantum computing system designed for scientific and commercial use.  Another important cybersecurity aspect of quantum informatics is the need to prepare for an era of post-quantum cryptography. Quantum computers are expected to soon be powerful enough to easily overcome the security provided by conventional cryptographic standards upon which we all heavily depend for privacy and security.  This class is designed to introduce engineering and computer science students to these exciting and newly emerging topics as well as to provide a well-grounded introduction to the technology.  No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics or quantum informatics is required for this class.

PREREQUISITES
ECE 3381 or equivalent, introduction to undergraduate-level linear algebra, undergraduate university 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 Selected Topics in Physics and Quantum Mechanics
 - Review of Pertinent Topics in Linear Algebra and Probability/Statistics
 - Hamiltonians and Schrodinger's Equation
 - Representing Information using Qubits (quantum bits)
 - Projective Measurement and Observables
 - Quantum Information Operations and Transformations
 - Introduction to Classical Information Theory
 - Introduction to Quantum Information Theory
 - Secure Communication and Quantum Teleportation
 - Survey of Technology for Implementing a Qubit
 - Models of Quantum Computation
 - Survey of Modern Quantum Computers
 - Post-Quantum Cryptography and Societal Needs
 - Survey of Modern Quantum Sensors and Metrology Devices