6W2 Summer 2024

Class Notes     What's Due?
Tue Jun 17
This year's welcome page is now finalized.

Wed Jun 11
Quantum in Pictures Episode 1: Wires and Boxes.

Thu Mar 19
From last November (and before): 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBRgytHojT9b34kBf_ovscjw3TnQ6VSKH
These are John Donohue's playlists (Quantum for Educators).

At least the most recent two are indexed above.

There's one more from Fall 2020 too, here.

These were formerly known as Schroedinger's Class.

Mon Mar 17
Here's a very interesting story Elmar pointed us to:
https://radiolab.org/podcast/quantum-birds

Here's the scientific background relevant to us: 

https://www.quantumbirds.eu/
Entanglement in action at the macroscopic level (in a sense).

Tue Mar 04
Direct link to a great video by Terry Rudolph (Q is for Quantum).

Thu Feb 27
A very interesting presentation from (and by) Bob Coecke.

Sun Feb 23
John Watrous Quantum Information Science playlist

Fri Feb 21
Microsoft chip announced and John Preskill comment.

Wed Feb 19
Maria Violaris Brief Intro to Quantum Computing.

Mon Dec 09
Google says its new quantum chip is way faster than ...

Thu Nov 07
IonQ has bought Qubitekk.

Tue Oct 29
From Wendy Wu and Emily Easton:
PsiQuantum (Terry Rudolph's company) building a mega-site in Chicago.

Sat Sep 21
Returning home to Indiana. If/when videos of presentations become available I will let you know.

Tue-Fri Sep 16-20
I got the flu (or a cold) and then I had to stay away for most of the week.

So I came, I presented and then I had to stay away (for safety reasons).

I tested negative for Covid though so I wasn't at my most dangerous self.

Sun Sep 15
Our presentation is tomorrow. First slide of our presentation:

Rebekah and Christian attended in person, Christina was online. Our presentation was well received.

Sat Sep 14
On my way to Montreal, Québec (Canada).

Wed Sep 11
Interesting: Google says their quantum computer reduces errors as it scales up.

Fri Aug 23
Interesting: Toward a Code-Breaking Quantum Computer.

Sat Aug 17
Important: A Glass Ceiling for Diversity.

Fri Aug 16
Earlier this week:
IonQ Delivers First Overseas Ion Trap (to Switzerland).

Thu Aug 15
A book cover and a quote from it:


Wed Aug 14
A book cover and a quote from it:

Tue Aug 13
Interesting:
entangled photons sent reliably through a commercial fiber optic network.

Mon Aug 12
Useful: Coding with Qiskit 1.x (playlist).

Sun Aug 11
I should have the slides for QSEEC 2024 finished in about a week.

Sat Aug 10
From Jan-Rainer Lahman implementation of GHZ game as shown in class:

Now to complete all permutations for the first case:
The links we discussed in class are here and here.

Fri Aug 09
Updated teleportation circuit implementation based on Barry Burd's:
That was the setup and this is the experiment:
Note that the probability amplitudes of the qubit to be teleported are random, but real.

Thu Aug 08
Two books that will remind you of Maria Violaris' lectures:

Wed Aug 07
Interesting: Quantum Error Correction for Kids.

Tue Aug 06
Interesting: Quantum Computing with Dartboards.

Mon Aug 05
QSEEC 2024 has posted the conference program today: 
https://ed.quantum.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2024/08/QSEEC24-program.pdf

Our presentation is on Mon Sep 16 at 4pm in the section "Forging New Horizons":

The website for this is: 
https://ed.quantum.ieee.org/qseec-24/
The relevant part of the program is here:
Click to enlarge (if needed).

Sun Aug 04
Interesting: Quantum Katas (from Microsoft Azure Quantum)

Sat Aug 03
Elmar demonstrates the probabilistic behavior of photons:
This is a snapshot from the lecture on Friday, July 26, 2024.

Sat Aug 03
This is the basic idea/reason why we are pushing our FLC at HS and middle school level.

Direct link to the article on the Quantum Frontiers blog.

Fri Aug 02
More from Terry Rudolph (recording from two years ago).

Thu Aug 01
A more recent piece (from last summer, via John Preskill) from Terry Rudolph.

Wed Jul 31
Terry Rudolph: Quantum Computing at the Speed of Light (2021).

Tue Jul 30
Commercial quantum computing solutions from Infleqtion.

Mon Jul 29
PsiQuantum is Terry Rudolph's company.

Sun Jul 28
Yesterday I finalized our submission to QSEEC 2024.

Sat Jul 27
My (wish)list of keynote speakers for the IN CSTA event CSPD Week next year:
  • Qubitekk (in person)
  • Valerio Scarani (Zoom) and
  • Christopher Gilbert (see below)

Valerio Scarani, of course, from Singapore (either he or one of his HS students).

Now the information promised about the 12-year old from Maine and his title:

Here are his book's credentials:
This is proof that the kind of outreach we envision is, in fact, possible.

Not easy, or straightforward, but possible!

Fri Jul 26
Last video posted, class is over, have a good rest of summer!

So long, but let's stay in touch! Until then, check this title out:

Thu Jul 25
Maria's announcement of the three lectures she gave for us.

The recording from Tue 07/23 webinar also available now.

Remotely related to what we discussed today in class.

Wed Jul 24
Since Maria's talk yesterday was about the state of quantum computing.

Today, the third of three distinguished guest lectures:

Maria Violaris
(Oxford University)
For your convenience abstracts and extended agendas have been posted here.

Tue Jul 23
Sent to the class distribution list just now: 
From: German, Dan-Adrian
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2024 7:44 AM
To: evertybody associated with this class
Cc: me at my other address
Subject: Reminder: webinar today 8am EDT (1pm BST)
 
Just a reminder that we have no lecture today. 

Instead we should please join this live webinar with Maria Violaris:

https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/classes/c290-quantum-dgerman/sum2024/lectures/0723.html

The webinar is live and starts at 8am EDT (1pm BST) that is, in just a few short minutes. 

If you're behind with weekly meetings please make appointments to catch up:

http://silo.cs.indiana.edu:31415/cgi-bin/sum2024/schedule

If you have questions or need anything, please let me know. 

Sincerely,
Adrian German

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Mon Jul 22
Two books we will refer to (and promote) this week:
 

Sun Jul 21
Here's how you prepare a custom quantum state:

Click to enlarge (if necessary).

Sat Jul 20
The day before our third guest lecture here's another event with Maria Violaris.

Different format, same exciting content and award-winning science communicator.

Fri Jul 19
A video by Olivia Lanes (IBM).

Thu Jul 18
With respect to our paper accepted at QSEEC (IEEE Quantum Week) 2024 and to be submitted toEPJ: We'd need to combine the content we have with the promises and expectations of the FLC we hope to establish.

Recall, our focus is HS Quantum Education in Indiana (and, more generally, in the US).

Wed Jul 17
Today, the second of three distinguished guest lectures:
Maria Violaris
(Oxford University)
For your convenience abstracts and extended agendas have been posted here.

Tue Jul 16
The Preskill paper we showed briefly in class (and the video).

Mon Jul 15
Just so I don't forget to share, here is:

And here's an alternative account of it (both entertaining and accurate).

Sun Jul 14
Next week we start entanglement-based protocols:
  • superdense coding
  • quantum teleportation

Then, the week after: quantum telepathy (GHZ game).

Sat Jul 13
We need to go over these videos before next week.

Qubitekk is one of our industrial partners.

Fri Jul 12
This is a great book:
Here's a chapter by chapter summary of it.

The notebook that we developed in class yesterday.

Some news that came from Quantum Zeitgeist earlier today.

Thu Jul 11
The wave-particle duality is a common phenomenon in Indiana:

Today's Zoom joke: what does a nosey pepper do?

Answer (Christina): gets jalapeño business!

(Spoken, if you will, with Sophia Vergara's accent (and slowly)).

Wed Jul 10
As a reminder, the Zoom link for the lecture is: 
https://iu.zoom.us/my/adrian.german
This is true of all lectures, today and always, including office hours.

Tue Jul 09
Tomorrow, the first of three distinguished guest lectures:
Maria Violaris
(Oxford University)
For your convenience abstracts and extended agendas have been posted here.

Mon Jul 08
From Martin LaForest and The Highlights Quiz:
  • this week we start thinking about the last section

Reading assignments from Barry Burd and Tommy Wong:

  • Barry Burd: review the first four chapters
  • Tommy Wong: review the first three chapters

These reading assignments are for the week.

Also Elmar wants to share this resource for complex numbers.

Sun Jul 07
Things on our agenda this coming week: Please continue to refer to The Little Qubitzer and Q is for Quantum.

On the Q is for Quantum site please also check the Supplementary Material and the FAQ.

Sat Jul 06
Here's a summary worked out during Fri office hours:

Fri Jul 05
Here's an (open access) overview paper at a slightly more advanced level than our class.

Take a look at this paper and notice please how many co-authors are listed.

Thu Jul 04
Today is a federal holiday. No classes.

We do have office hours as usual, if you need anything.

Classes resume tomorrow.

Wed Jul 03
Matrices for quantum gates. Recall:

This would be a good time to review first chapter from the book by Barry Burd.

Tue Jul 02
There is a free book published in 2019 entitled It's published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Search for Church-Turing Thesis in it (w/ respect to Bernstein-Vazirani).

Now here's a summary of Weeks 1, 2, 3 for your convenience:

  • in Week 01 we introduced Google Colab, Python and github.com
  • we solved and simulated probability problems then used Qiskit
  • with Qiskit we created quantum circuits (with one-qubit gates)

  • in Week 02 we introduced C-NOT and described phase kickback
  • which we used to implement the Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm
  • we introduced (implemented) entanglement and
  • discussed the Berkeley CS191 Diagnostic Quiz

  • in Week 03 we assigned two papers for reading
  • papers were by Ed Barnes and Sophia Economou
  • about their Summer Camp for HS students
  • then we went and implemented Deutsch-Josza
  • from Martin LaForest we reviewed two chapters
  • those were: Linear Algebra and Complex Numbers

As we go into the fourth week our sights are on Grover.

We also need to start entanglement-based protocols (e.g., superdense coding).

Mon Jul 01
Welcome to the month of July 2024!

Very happy to be on this journey with all of you.

Today: the papers by Ed Barnes and Sophia Economou.

Here's where John Watrous explains Qiskit order choice.

Sun Jun 30
What is Quantum Information Science?

The direct link to the Panos Charitos article is here.

Sat Jun 29
Regular office hours resume today.

Here's a meaningful link from Elmar (and another one).

This is a very recent keynote from D-Wave (Qubits 2024).

Fri Jun 28
Two papers for next week:

Next week we start with Deutsch-Josza (i.e., "money or tiger").

Thu Jun 27
Just an announcement from three weeks ago.

We also need to update What's Due? as we wrap up the first week of individual meetings.

Wed Jun 26
This week: Bernstein-Vazirani.

Read here about phase kickback.

Here's also the video that goes with the first link.

Here's the news about our severe weather in Monroe county.

Tue Jun 25
The notebook we wrote in class yesterday.

Notice also the notes for this week, in Class Notes.

Mon Jun 24
Look through chapter 10 (the last one) of this book: 
http://algorithmics.lsi.upc.edu/docs/Dasgupta-Papadimitriou-Vazirani.pdf
Look through the rest of the book too, and see how we relied on it four years ago.

You can also download and read our paper now part of the CS2023 ACM Curricular Guidelines.

At the CS2023 site you can look through Publications, Curricular Practices, Task Force, Knowledge Areas, etc.

Sun Jun 23
Trace with misty states to confirm understanding:
Please click to enlarge (if needed).

Sat Jun 22
From the Vazirani playlist this video for today.

Fri Jun 21
The video recording from today's class has been posted around 11:30am.

In class today we will first briefly take a look at this.

We can also try the hat graph example from this page.

Thu Jun 20
Guest lecture today 8:45-10am, same place, same address.

John McNally
(Wolfram Research)
More details about this morning's talk can be found here.

Wed Jun 19
No classes today, Guest Lecture tomorrow.

Tue Jun 18
Lecture notes for today now summarize learning objectives for this week.

Video recording of today's lecture posted now.

Here's the notebook that we developed in class today.

Mon Jun 17
The video recording from today's has been posted around 1pm in here.

There is also a shorter video there (about 9 minutes) of just highlights.

Sun Jun 16
First guest lecture is this coming week on Thu, Jun 20:

Teaching Quantum with the Wolfram Quantum Framework

John McNally (Wolfram Academic Innovation Group and Wolfram Research).

As an outline John plans to cover:

  • some demos of quantum concepts you can do in the framework
  • a few more general physics demos to show other areas that might be relevant to them
  • some extra tools for teaching like natural language input and how to make a demo
Note that Wed there are no classes (Juneteenth) this coming week.

Sat Jun 15
QSEEC 2024 is still looking for poster submissions.

QSEEC 2024 is part of the annual IEEE Quantum Week, this year in Montreal, Canada.

The deadline for submitting a poster is July 15 (so, in a month).

Fri Jun 14
From Tommy Wong, this is where/how his book and our class starts:

Author's website (note: there is now a sequel).

Thu Jun 13
I will use this to illustrate Grover's Quantum Search algorithm:

From [ https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0955/2452/files/Magic_Math_Cards.pdf ]:

Click to enlarge (if needed). I'll describe in class how we use it.

It will also act as a metaphor for the concept of quantum parallelism.

Wed Jun 12
When you watch Terry's video please consider this:

Tue Jun 11
Today I should post info on how to open an IU Guest account.

I should also post the titles and abstracts of Maria Violaris's talks.

She will deliver three guest lectures for us on July 10th, 17th and 24th.

Mon Jun 10
Six lectures from one of the founders of QC (transcribed a few years ago).

Sun Jun 09
Here's a playlist that contains lectures from a brilliant science educator.

We'll aim to present the first six lectures within the misty state formalism.

Sat Jun 08
We're in the process of setting a guest lecture from Wolfram Science.

It's going to be on the 20th or 21st of June. Details forthcoming.

Fri Jun 07
In 2022 we created an SGSO here at IU entitled QuTE (Quantum Technologies for Everyone).

Here are the links to the 2022-23 and 2023-24 online proceedings for the club.

Thu Jun 06
During this class we will refer often to this playlist:

Much of the same info is available here both as video and as a written document.

Wed Jun 05
Note some of the resources posted are now in their second (updated, enhanced, augmented) edition.

Case in point this book (note also you need permission to Resources via IUB network ID).

Tue Jun 04
IU Guest accounts can be created from this page.

Step by step instructions will be provided shortly.

Mon Jun 03
Resources page has been updated with a link to everything we used in the past.

If I want to refer to a single resource I can use a link like this.

Sun Jun 02
Here's how this class was structured when it was first offered (6W2 Summer 2022).

Sat Jun 01
Welcome to the month of June! This month our class starts (on 06/17).

Fri May 31
Our enrollment currently at 3 + 10 + 2 = 15 (total).

I will send a note to faculty and students in Luddy on Monday.

Goal is to promote the class and remind everybody modality is hybrid.

Enrollment goal is something like: 5 + 15 + 10 = 30 (total, hopefully).

Thu May 30
On behalf of the Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT) we aim to lay the foundation this year for
  • a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) in QC/QIS
  • for CSCI HS teachers in IN and the rest of the US
So we will be joined remotely by up to 10 such exceptional individuals during this 6W2 of Summer 2024.

Wed May 29
Here's the link for Quantum Country.

Tue May 28
Earlier this year the CS2023 report became official. We are listed under The Task Force.

See p. 19 in this document and the last document on this page for some of our contributions.

Mon May 27
On my way back to Bloomington.

Sat-Sun May 25-26
Still in AZ, returning to Bloomington on Monday.

Fri May 24
Sent to the class distribution list very early today: 
From: German, Dan-Adrian
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2024 3:34 AM (I'm on Pacific time, so it's actually around midnight here) 
To: everybody enrolled in C290/A590 "Introduction to Quantum Advantage" 6W2 Summer 2024 class
Subject: C290/A590 6W2 Summer 2024: Introduction to Quantum Advantage
 
Hello and I hope my message finds you well. I'm writing today to let you know we're very happy 
you signed up for our class. The class starts June 17, and I am currently in AZ, but I did create 
an external website for the class, posted the syllabus, and combined and published the two Canvas 
sections. If anybody has any questions or needs anything, please let me know. For your convenience 
(since these links can be accessed directly from Canvas) here's the class website and the link to 
the syllabus:

  https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/classes/c290-quantum/

  https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/classes/c290-quantum-dgerman/sum2024/syllabus.pdf

Perhaps the most important thing to remind you is that the class is offered in the hybrid modality. 
You can attend in person, in BLIF 1019, or via Zoom (we will broadcast and record every lecture). 
You can also just watch the recordings if you're in a time zone that prohibits your synchronous 
participation. Especially in this third case we'll have to make sure we connect weekly (at a 
time that is mutually convenient) to ensure you're making adequate progress. In any event, I 
thought this was necessary for me to state clearly since the Registrar's does not have the 
ability to communicate this aspect to prospective students. 

You will need to authenticate to get into Canvas. We'll post many materials there once the class 
starts. The external website should be publicly accessible except for a section entitled Resources. 
For that you'd have to authenticate again when you access it. I have lots of resources that I want 
to share with you that I can't just post out there on the web, so I need to make sure access to it 
is available to just those that are taking the class. Currently two books are posted; they're useful 
and we will make good use of them during class. I have many others, but you don't need them yet and 
I will give you access to all of them as soon as the class starts.

Please look over the syllabus (at your convenience) and let me know if you have any questions. I 
look forward to working with all of you very soon. 

Sincerely,
Adrian German

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Thu May 23
This website is established. More to come soon.

Updated by © Adrian German for C290/A590 Intro to Quantum Advantage