Course info

During the last decade, small-scale quantum computers have emerged, with companies like IBM, Google and Microsoft as the frontrunners. The fundamental computational building block in quantum computing is the qubit. While millions of qubits are needed to outperform classical supercomputers, current state-of-the-art quantum computers only have hundreds of qubits available. However, with the rapid development in the field, we can expect this number to grow in the coming years and decades.  

A quantum computer is no longer a dream and far-fetched future; it will be an accessible computing tool for computer scientists and engineers in the coming years. Therefore, the course will introduce the participants to the main concepts of quantum computing. 

The course will cover the following subjects:

• Introduction to quantum computing and hardware, 
• Bloch sphere, gates and circuits, introduction to Qiskit
• Quantum preliminaries, quantum algorithms
• Software stack and control stack
• Postulates of quantum mechanics, observable quantum operations, tensor products, measurements, partial trace  
• Variational quantum algorithms
• Quantum communication, 
• Quantum cryptography  

Organizer: Rafal Wisniewski  

Lecturers:  Sven Karlson (DTU), Petar Popovski (AAU), and Rafal Wisniewski (AAU)  

Number of seats:     40