Graduate Courses in Quantum Information

Courses in quantum information have been offered at UW since the 1999-2000 academic year. The number and breadth of courses have increased substantially in recent years

These courses can be taken as part of a wide range of graduate and undergraduate programs offered at UW.

Courses offered this semester

• QIC 710 Quantum Information Processing (Fall 2010)
• QIC 890 Applied Quantum Cryptography (Fall 2010)

Summary of all QIC graduate courses

Core Courses:

QIC 710 Quantum Information Processing(crosslisted with CS 667, C&O 681, PHYS 767, and AMATH 871), next offered Fall 2010

QIC 750 Implementation of Quantum Information Processing, next offered Winter 2011

Specialized Courses:

QIC 820 Theory of Quantum Information(crosslisted with CS 766 Theory of Quantum Information), next offered Fall 2011

QIC 823 Quantum Algorithms, next offered Winter 2011

QIC 845 Open Quantum System(crosslisted with AMATH876 Open Quantum System), next offered Winter 2011

QIC 880 Nanoelectronics for QIP, next offered Fall 2011

QIC 885 Quantum Electronics and Photonics, next offered Winter 2011

QIC 890 Topics in Quantum Information (lecture course)

Planned future offerings of QIC 890 include:

• Applied Quantum Cryptography, next offered Fall 2010
• Implementation of Quantum Communication, next offered Spring 2011
• Magnetic Resonance and Spin-based Quantum Information Processing, next offered Winter 2011
• Quantum Communication Theory, next offeredFall 2012
• Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance, next offered Winter 2012
• Quantum optics and atomic physics for QIP, next offered Winter 2012

QIC 895 Topics in Quantum Information (reading course)

Previously offered courses in quantum information and related topics.