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Master's course on Quantum Information

Classes in 2024 (2nd trimester of the 2023/2024 school year)


Semidefinite programming, 22 February, 2024. [pdf]

We reviewed a paper: Event-Ready Bell Test Using Entangled Atoms Simultaneously Closing Detection and Locality Loopholes, 22 February, 2024. [pdf] See also the related paper at [link] and video at [youtube].

Quantum metrology, 22 February, 2024. [pdf]

– We reviewed a paper: D. Bouwmeester, J.-W. Pan, K. Mattle, M. Eibl, H. Weinfurter, A. Zeilinger, Experimental quantum teleportation, Nature 390, 575-579 (1997), 15 February, 2024 [link]

No-cloning theorem and related issues (no cloning theorem, measurement problem, quantum teleportation, quantum cryptography, error correction), 15 February, 2024. (Summary of the presentation given at the blackboard) [pdf]

Entanglement measures (How much is it entangled?), 8, 15 February, 2024. (Summary of the presentation given at the blackboard) [pdf]

– We reviewed a paper: Experimental Entanglement of a Six-Photon Symmetric Dicke State, 8 February, 2024 [pdf]. See also the related paper at [pdf].

Entanglement theory (entangled/not entangled), 30 Januar, 2024. (Summary of the presentation given at the blackboard) [pdf]

– We reviewed a paper: J. Yin, Y. Cao, Y.-H. Li et al., Satellite-based entanglement distribution over 1200 kilometers, Science 356, 1140-1144 (2017), 30 January, 2024 [link]

– We reviewed a paper: Violation of Bell’s Inequality under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions, 29 January, 2024. (Summary of the presentation given at the blackboard) [pdf]. See also the related paper at [pdf].

Bell inequalities, 23, 29 January, 2024. (Summary of the presentation given at the blackboard) [pdf]

Interesting quantum states, 22 and 23, January 2024. (Summary of the presentation given at the blackboard) [pdf]

General characteristics of multi-partite quantum systems, 17, 19, and 22, January 2024. (Summary of the presentation given at the blackboard) [pdf]

Introduction, 17 January 2024. (Summary of the presentation given at the blackboard) [pdf]


Literature

I. Bengtsson and K. Zyczkowski, Geometry of Quantum States, An Introduction to Quantum Entanglement, Cambridge University Press, 2009. [link]

R. Horodecki, P. Horodecki, M. Horodecki, and K. Horodecki, Quantum entanglement, Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 865 (2009). [link]

O. Gühne and G. Tóth, Entanglement detection, Phys. Rep. 474, 1 (2009); arxiv:0811.2803. [pdf]

G. Tóth and I. Apellaniz, Quantum metrology from a quantum information science perspective, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 47, 424006 (2014), special issue "50 years of Bell's theorem"; arxiv:1405.4878. [pdf]


Transparencies of presentations with a similar topic

G. Tóth, Quantum metrology, Colloquium at the University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany, 7 November 2019. [pdf]

[invited] G. Tóth, Tutorial: Quantum metrology from a quantum information science perspective, Conference of the German Physical Society, Rostock, Germany, 10 March 2019. [pdf]

G. Tóth, Entanglement witnesses, Entanglement Day, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, 4-5 September 2014, Budapest. [pdf]

G. Tóth, Quantum metrology from a quantum information science perspective, Entanglement Day, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, 4-5 September, 2014, Budapest. [pdf]

G. Tóth, Introduction to quantum information science and quantum computation, Temas de Física (J. M. M. Senovilla), University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, 23, 26 February, and 2, 5 March, 2015. [pdf]

G. Tóth, Introduction to quantum information science and quantum computation (lecture in Spanish, slides in English), Temas de Física (J. M. M. Senovilla), University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 5-6 May, 2014. [pdf]

G. Tóth, Quantum entanglement and its detection with few measurements, (2x45 minutes lecture), Grupo de Informacion y Computacion Cuanticas, Departamento de Fisica Teorica I, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 3 December, 2009. [pdf]


Past courses