Lecturer: Nick Spooner
TAs: Marcel Dall'Agnol, Jack O'Connor

Resources

• Course materials (Warwick students only, do not distribute!)
• Use Piazza for asking questions.
• Recorded lectures will be available on Moodle.
• The best introductory textbook is Thomas Wong's Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing [pdf, 16MB]. I would suggest looking here first if there's something you don't understand. However, our course goes a bit deeper into the theory than this textbook does, and covers some other topics.
• Another great introduction is the Qiskit Textbook; this will be especially useful later on in the course when we try simulations.
• An excellent, comprehensive, but somewhat less approachable textbook is Nielsen and Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. Online access via Cambridge University Press (log in with Warwick credentials).
• Linear algebra primer (by Chris Hickey).
• Quantikz for drawing quantum circuits in LaTeX.

Seminars

Week	Topic	Exercises	Notes
1	Linear algebra refresher 1		Seminar 1
2	Linear algebra refresher 2 + probability refresher		Seminar 2
3	Qiskit introduction
4	Entanglement and decoherence	Seminar 4
5	Deferred measurement	Seminar 5
6	Review problem sheet 1		Seminar 6
7	Query complexity (multi-qubit Deutsch-Josza)		Seminar 7
8	Grover's search	Seminar 8
9	Review problem sheet 2
10	Mock exam	Mock exam