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This talk will give an overview of quantum computing in an intuitive and conceptual fashion. No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics will be assumed.
The talk will begin with an introduction to the strange world of the quantum. Such concepts as quantum superposition, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the ”collapse” of the wave function, and quantum entanglement (i.e., EPR pairs) are introduced. This part of the talk will also be interlaced with an introduction to Dirac notation, Hilbert spaces, unitary transformations, quantum measurement, and the density operator.
Simple examples will be given to explain and to illustrate such concepts as quantum measurement, quantum teleportation, quantum dense coding, and the first quantum algorithm, i.e., the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm.
The PowerPoint slides for this talk will be posted at the URL: http://www. csee.umbc.edu/ lomonaco/Lectures.html
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Lomonaco, S. (2008). Talks on Quantum Computing. In: Hodges, W., de Queiroz, R. (eds) Logic, Language, Information and Computation. WoLLIC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5110. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69937-8_3
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