PHYS 7810

Fall 2026

Quantum Error Correction

Course Information:

• Lectures: TTh 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM, JILA Auditorium
• Syllabus, including general university policies

Lectures:

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• Lecture 1 (August 20): Quantum channels
• Lecture 2 (August 25): Shor code
• Lecture 3 (August 27): Knill-Laflamme conditions
• Lecture 4 (September 1): 1d Ising model as the repetition code
• Lecture 5 (September 3): 2d Ising model
• Lecture 6 (September 8): Classical parity-check codes
• Lecture 7 (September 10): Pauli stabilizer codes
• Lecture 8 (September 15): CSS codes
• Lecture 9 (September 17): Toric code
• Lecture 10 (September 22): Topologically ordered phases of matter
• Lecture 11 (September 24): Surface code
• Lecture 12 (September 29): Fault-tolerant quantum memory
• Lecture 13 (October 1): Clifford circuits
• Lecture 14 (October 6): Syndrome extraction circuits
• Lecture 15 (October 13): Transversal gates
• Lecture 16 (October 15): Universal gate sets

Homework:

• Homework 1 (due September 8)
• Homework 2 (due September 22)
• Homework 3 (due October 13)