QIC 710 F25
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Introduction to Quantum Information Processing\ QIC 710, CS 768, CO 681, PHYS 767, AMATH 871, PMATH 871 (Fall 2025)\ \ Instructor: Richard Cleve (cleve@uwaterloo.ca)\ Note to students: please include QIC-710 in email subject, regardless of the version you’re in\ \ TAs:\ Avantika Agarwal (avantika.agarwal@uwaterloo.ca) office hour: Fridays 2:30-3:30pm, QNC 4321\ Vahid R. Asadi (vrasadi@uwaterloo.ca) office hour: Mondays 3-4pm, QNC 4401\ Eric Culf (eculf@uwaterloo.ca) office hour: Wed 2:30-3:30pm, QNC 3112\ Isaac Lee (i38lee@uwaterloo.ca) office hour: Tuesdays 12-1pm, MC 5464\ Benjamin Wong (b62wong@uwaterloo.ca) office hour: Thursdays 10-11am, QNC 3112\ \ Course web site: http://cleve.iqc.uwaterloo.ca/qic710\ \ Classes: Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30-9:50am in EV2 Rm 2002 (first class is Sept 4)\ \ General course information [here]\ \ Lecture notes [here]\ \ Old video lectures [here]\ \ Announcements\
- Assignment 6 has been posted (due: November 25).
- Assignment 5 has been posted (due: November 13).
- Correction to Assignment 4: Q2(b) added minus sign to –MU_f (if you already solved it correctly without the minus sign, in which case the rotation angle differs by pi, that's OK)
- Assignment 4 has been posted (due: November 3).
- Assignment 3 has been posted (due: October 9).
- Updated Assignment 2 with parentheses added to functions in Q4 for increased clarity.
- Here are references for the basics of modular arithmetic and definitions of rings and fields:\ - Modular arithmetic (AoPS) [here]\ - An Introduction to Groups, Rings, and Fields (H.A. Priestley) [pdf].
- Updated Assignment 2 with Q4(b) correction (to function domains).
- Assignment 2 has been posted (due: September 29).
- Correction to Benjamin Wong's office hour (see above).
- Office hours have been posted (see above).
- Assignment 1 has been posted (due: September 16).
- First class is on Thursday, Sept 4, 8:30-9:50am, in EV2 Room 2002.
\ Assignments (60% of grade)\
- 6 assignments (10% each)
- Please check the grading policy information [here]
- Please check Sample Assignment A and Solutions to Sample Assignment A
\ Assignment 1 (due: September 16, 2025 at 11:59pm)\ Assignment 2 (due: September 29, 2025 at 11:59pm)\ Assignment 3 (due: October 9, 2025 at 11:59pm)\ Assignment 4 (due: November 3 at 11:59pm)\ Assignment 5 (due: November 13 at 11:59pm)\ Assignment 6 (due: November 25 at 11:59pm)\ \ Tests (40% of grade)\
- Two tests (20% each)
- Test 1 in class (October 21)
- Test 2 in class (December 2)