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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Kanpur

    The Syllabus

    • What is quantum computing? Quantum weirdness: Mach-Zehnder interferometer.

    • Linear algebraic formulation of states: deterministic, randomized and quantum, qubits, composite systems

    • Operations in quantum computing, basics gates and circuits, Mach-Zehnder in terms of quantum operations.

    • Semidefinite matrices, projectors, measurements in quantum computing, principle of deferred measurement

    • Classical and quantum circuits, Deutsch (from Mach-Zehnder) and Deutsch-Jozsa, swap circuit

    • Randomized computation with examples

    • Simon’s algorithm, Quantum Fourier transform, its applications: phase estimation and Shor’s algorithm

    • Grover search, amplitude amplification and variants

    • Random walks and discrete time quantum walks

    • Query model: classical and quantum, approximate degree, optimality of Grover search

    • Total functions: at most polynomial separation between deterministic and quantum query complexity

    • Super-quadratic separation: cheatsheet model, partial functions, Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture and Forrelation problem (depending on time).

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