CPEN 400Q: Gate-model quantum computing (UBC ECE, January 2024)

Lecture notes and in-class demos for the undergraduate course in gate-model quantum computing with PennyLane at UBC.

These materials are open source and free for anyone to use and adapt as they wish.

Lectures

• [2024-01-08] 01: Overview and intro to gate model quantum computing
• [2024-01-10] 02: Single-qubit systems; introducing PennyLane
• [2024-01-15] 03: Measurement I (projective measurements)
• [2024-01-17] 04: Entanglement and multi-qubit systems
• [2024-01-22] 05: Our first quantum algorithms (superdense coding and teleportation)
• [2024-01-24] 06: Teleportation and Measurement II (expectation values)
• [2024-01-24] 07: Hands-on with the variational quantum classifer (VQC)
• [2024-02-05] 09: The oracle, query complexity, and Deutsch's algorithm
• [2024-02-07] 10: Grover's algorithm
• [2024-02-12] 11: An overview of quantum compilation
• [2024-02-14] 12: Hands-on with quantum compilation
• [2024-02-26] 13: The quantum Fourier transform
• [2024-02-28] 14: QFT and quantum phase estimation
• [2024-03-04] 15: Quantum phase estimation and order finding
• [2024-03-06] 16: Order finding and Shor's algorithm
• [2024-03-11] 17: Hands-on with quantum key distribution
• [2024-03-13] 18: Hamiltonian simulation
• [2024-03-18] 19: Hamiltonian simulation circuits and Trotterization
• [2024-03-20] 20: Hamiltonian simulation: error and resources in practice
• [2024-03-25] 21: Hands-on with the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE)
• [2024-04-03] 22: Mixed states and density matrices
• [2024-04-08] 23: Quantum channels and noise
• [2024-04-10] 24: Noisy, intermediate-scale quantum computing

Resources

• Xanadu Quantum Codebook
• PennyLane GitHub page
• PennyLane documentation

Previous instances

Complete materials from previous runs of the course are available under Releases, or view the repository state using the links below:

• v2 (2023)
• v1 (2022)