Semester page for FYS5419 - Spring 2025

Dear all, we hope the week has started the best possible way. Since many of you are not at UiO this week, the lecture on Wednesday will uploaded as a recording only. Thus, there is no real time zoom session nor an in-person lecture.

The focus this week is on wrapping up our discussion of Fourier transforms and discuss the quantum phase estimation algorithm. Brief mentions of Shor's algorithm will also be made. After the Easter break, we will focus on quantum machine learning methods and will dedicate the remaining 3-4 weeks on this topic.

For the week, the plans are

Plans for the week of April 7-11, 2025

1. Reminder from last week about Quantum Fourier Transforms

2. Quantum phase estimation algorithm, final derivation and discussions

3. Brief discussion of Shor's algorithm

4. Reading recommendation...

Dear all, we hope this week has started the best possible way. We continue our discussions of quantum Fourier transforms (QFTs) from last week since these are relevant for many of you in connection with project 2. Thereafter we will discuss the quantum phase estimation (QPE) algorithm, which serves as input to both Shor's algorithm and the estimation of eigenenergies (which can be compared with those form project 1). Alternatively, for those who are interested, one may continue with Shor's algorithm as a path for project 2.

These topics, QFTs and the QPE will also be discussed next week.

After the Easter break we will focus mainly on quantum machine learning algorithms.  The plans for this week are thus:

Plans for the week of March 31-April 4, 2025

1. Discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs, reminder from last week) ) and the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) (see ...

Dear all, welcome back to a new week with FYS5419. We've hope you've had a great weekend.

This week we will start with a discussion of quantum Fourier transforms (QFTs) with and an emphasis on their mathematical properties.

We will continue with this topic next week (with discussions of codes and more) as well as the quantum phase estimation algorithm (QPE), which plays an important role in other algorithms, like Shor's algo and the evaluation of the energy of a system.  After our discussions of QFTs and related topics, we will end the semester with a discussion of quantum machine learning algorithms.  This week we will also discuss possible paths for project 2.

Thus, this week we aim at 

Plans for the week of March 24-28, 2025

1. Start discussion of discrete Fourier transforms and Quantum Fourier transforms, basic mathematical expressions...