PHYS 7810
Fall 2026
Quantum Error Correction
Course Information:
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
- Lecture 17 (October 20): Magic state distillation
- Lecture 18 (October 22): Lattice surgery
- Lecture 19 (October 27): Subsystem codes and code switching
- Lecture 20 (October 29): 3d color codes
- Lecture 21 (November 3): Fault tolerance in 3d color codes
- Lecture 22 (November 5): 4d toric code
- Lecture 23 (November 10): Single-shot quantum error correction
- Lecture 24 (November 12): Random classical LDPC codes
- Lecture 25 (November 17): Spin glass physics in random LDPC codes
Homework: