Quantum Information Theory

Lecture Notes

Lecture notes will be provided during the lecture. An updated version will be available here (download, 05/08/09).

Literature

Classical Information Theory

• Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas, "Elements of Information Theory", Wiley Series in Telecommunications.
  Available electronically: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/bookhome/110438582
  (accessible from within the ETH domain only)

Quantum Information Theory

• Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang, "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information", Cambridge University Press.
• John Preskill's lecture notes on "Information for Physics".
  Available electronically: http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph229/#lecture
• Lecture "Einführung in die Quanteninformatik" by Stefan Wolf, Computer Science Department (Winter semesters at ETH Zentrum).

Course Certificate (Testat)

In order to receive a course certificate, students are required to hand in two thirds of the exercise sheets.

Exam

Basis of the exam is the lecture, the script (Chapter 1-6), and the exercises. For the chapter about "Resource Inequalities", the exam will solely be based on the material covered in course. The corresponding chapter in the lecture notes can be considered as a supplement (see remark at the beginning of Chapter 7).

Exercises

• exercise 01
• exercise 02
• exercise 03
• exercise 04
• exercise 05
• exercise 06
• exercise 07
• exercise 08
• exercise 09
• exercise 10
• exercise 11
• exercise 12
• exercise 13

Solutions