Entanglement and Quantum Information

Lecturers: C. Degli Esposti Boschi (CNR Researcher) and D. Vodola (Fixed-term Researcher, DIFA)

Duration: 24 hours, from 06/04/2021 to 07/05/2021

Program: 

  • Density matrices (pure and mixed); Complements on the theory of measurements: PVM, POVM
  • Separable and entanglement states; Schmidt decomposition, entanglement entropy, other criteria and witnesses
  • Entanglement-based Protocols: EPR and Bell inequalities; teleportation
  • Reversible computation and quantum circuits
  • Universal gate sets
  • Basic quantum algorithms: Deutsch, Grover and quantum cryptography 
  • Physical implementation with trapped ions
  • Models for quantum noise: depolarising, dephasing and amplitude-damping channels

Note: The attached PDF files contain lecture notes about these topics; they are by no means exhaustive nor substitute of original references; the detailed selection for the items treated during the course will be specified by the lecturers; some parts are in Italian only, others are translated to English when not available in the original literature