Course
Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation
Harvard University
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Harvard's quantum mechanics course extended with applications to quantum computing, covering the physical principles underlying qubits, measurement, and quantum algorithms.
What you'll learn
- Qubits and quantum gates from physical first principles
- Entanglement and non-local correlations
- The no-cloning theorem and quantum teleportation
- Quantum Fourier transform and period finding
- Shor's algorithm and prospects for NP-complete problems
Format
edX — self-paced with video lectures
Prerequisites
Designed to be accessible to undergraduates, including computer science majors with no prior quantum mechanics exposure.
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