UMESH VAZIRANI: The exponential power of
quantum systems is one of the great
scientific discoveries of our times.
You may think of quantum computing as
trying to hack into nature's computer,
but this requires completely
new design principles.
So the goal of this course is to make
this beautiful subject widely
accessible, even to students with no
prior background in quantum mechanics.
So to do this, we'll follow a
new and direct approach to
teaching quantum mechanics.
This approach relies on the building
blocks of quantum computation--
qubits and quantum gates.
The course covers a lot of ground and is
based on an advanced undergraduate
course at Berkeley.
Enormous effort has gone into
simplifying the material without
diluting the contents.
This promises to be a great adventure,
and so I encourage you to make the
time for it.
