This is a webpage for the Quantum Information Theory (QIT) learning seminar at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg this summer. There will be a series of lectures aiming to learn the basics of QIT from the mathematical point of view. Any update about this seminar will be posted here.
Time: Every Wednesday (starting May 7, 2025) at 13:30 hrs.
Venue: MVF26
Announcements: 1
No class on May 14 due to WACQT May meeting! We will meet again on 21 May. Note the change of venue!
There are now (unpolished) notes for each lecture available at the bottom of the page. New notes will be added as the seminar series proceeds.
The seminar will take a summer break; the last session was the 18th of June. We will be back in start/mid August.
We will continue our seminar from September 10, on every Wednesday (13.30-15:00) at MVF 26.
No seminar September 24th!
No seminar October 29th!
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Literature: We will mostly follow some lecture notes by John Watrous , and Vern Paulsen.
Some good references for QIT are
a. The Theory of Quantum Information
b. Quantum Information Processing with finite resources
Content: Lecture 1: Quantum states, measurements, and Naimark's theorem
Lecture 2: State Purification and distinguishability measures
Lecture 3: Quantum Channels and representations
Lecture 4: Quantum channels as contractive linear maps
Lecture 5: State and channel discrimination; the Holevo-Helstrom theorem
Lecture 6: The completely bounded trace norm, Holevo-Helstrom for channels
-Summer break-
Lecture 7: Bipartite entanglement: motivation, characterization, and Horodecki criterion
Lecture 8: Bipartite entanglement (cont.): examples, entanglement rank and k-positivity
Lecture 9: The symmetric subspace, Schur-Weyl duality, twirling
Lecture 10: Optimal cloning, the quantum de Finetti theorem
Lecture 11: Classical entropy
Lecture 12: Quantum entropy
Lecture 13: Shannon's source coding theorem
Lecture 14: TBA
Contact: Mizanur Rahaman (mizanurr@chalmers.se)
Siri Tinghammar (siriti@chalmers.se)