Dates: Winter, 2007
Speaker(s): Daniel Gottesman

An in-depth introduction to quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computing, and related topics. Covers stabilizer codes, CSS codes, higher-dimensional codes, specific code constructions, entanglement purification protocols, and quantum channel capacity. Also bounds on quantum error correction: quantum Hamming bound, quantum Singleton bound, linear programming bounds and the quantum MacWilliams identity; and principles of fault-tolerant quantum computation: fault-tolerant error measurement, fault-tolerant gate design, the threshold for fault-tolerant quantum computation, and topological fault-tolerance.

Cross-listed for credit in the UW Physics and C&O departments under "Topics in Quantum Information".  Registration should be completed via the University of Waterloo.

A similar class was given in Winter 2004.