授課教室：物理凝態館R804

Quantum computing is an entirely new paradigm of computation. It utilizes the fundamental properties of quantum mechanics to process data in ways that offer significant speedups for a variety of problems. Progress for this technology over the last few years has been rapid. This course of “Quantum Computing Experiment and Implementation” combines both the laboratory and practical implementation components for quantum computing. It will introduce the physical systems of some quantum computing devices and discuss how they are operated. This course will enable students to measure some key physical properties of and to implement simple quantum algorithms on the quantum computing devices.

The course is a critical element for students to learn and understand both hardware and software components of quantum computing. Studentsin this course not only learn about the theory, but also perform experiments on real quantum computing machines. Students will gain hand-on experiences in operating (a) 2-qubit quantum computing device based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond (like PC’s) (b) 2-qubit quantum computing device based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) (like PC’s) (c) IBM-Quantum multi-qubit quantum computers based on superconducting Josephson junction devices (remote access, like operating a main frame computer)

The recommended prerequisite course for this course is "Introduction to Quantum Computation and Information" (offered in the Spring semester) because some contents and quantum algorithms that had been taught in the Introductory course will not be repeated in the "Quantum Computing Experiment and Implementation" course, and students will be directly engaged in conducting the experiments and implementations.

3 hours

For the contents not covered in the prerequisite course of "Introduction to Quantum Computation and Information", lectures will be given before the experiments and implementations are conducted. Each experiment or implementation comes with an instruction manual.