1ª aula

Apresentação: Organization, Program, Introduction

1ª aula

Apresentação: Organization, Program, Introduction

2ª aula

Thermodynamics, Entropy, Macroscoping and Microscoping state, Dice model , Information and Entropy, Definition of Entropy as the number of Questions

3ª aula

Communication, Message, Information Theory, Representation of information, Signal alphabet, Surprise, Information and probability, Statistical encoding, Entropy of Images

4ª aula

What are numbers, Information Content of a Measurement, Gain of Information, Psychophysics, Psychophysical function

5ª aula

Uncertainty Principle for Measurement, Fourier transform, Conservation of Information, Quantum Mechanics, Conjugate pairs, Uncertainty principle, Information and Energy

6ª aula

Hierarchical Organization, Trees, How many nodes should each level contain in order that the average waiting time required is as small as possible? DNA Numbers and Ontologies, Hierarchical Subspaces, Optimal number of Hierarchical Subspaces. (The pdf format was also split into three parts, so the printing is made easier)

7ª aula

Brain and Information, Crotex, Visual Cortex, Eye Movements, Information Content of Contours, Information gain in a contour

8ª aula

Invariant Pattern Recognition, Hierarchical Neural Networks, Neocognitron, Lack of intrinsic shift invariance of the Neocognitron, Delay Neocognitron

9ª aula

Associative Memory: Content-Addressable Memory; Associative Memory; Lernmatrix; Association; Heteroassociation; Learning; Retrieval; Reliability of the answer; Storage Analysis; Information Content and Information Theory, Maximizing information storage capacity, Sterling`s formula, Sparse Coding;

10ª aula

Entscheidungsproblem, Turing machine, Halting Problem, Godel, Computability, Univerality, Complexity, Church-Turing thesis, Strong Church-Turing thesis, Reformulation of the Strong Church-Turing thesis by Deutsch, Probabilistic Turing Machine, Quantum Turing Machine, Reversible gates

11ª aula

Overview of Quantum Computers, Qubit, Notation, Bra, Ket, Hilbert Space, Suprposition, Quantum Memory, Eigenstrates, Unitary Evolution, Observables as Hermitian Operators

12ª aula

Classical Physics, Hamiltonian equation of motion, Probabilistic System, Markov chain, Quantum coin, destructive interference, Hilbert Spaces, Operators, adjoint operator,self-adjoint operator, unitary operator, Spectral representation, Spectral Representation of Unitary Operators

13ª aula

Quantum States as Hilbert Space Vectors, Compound systems, Quantum Time Evolution, Observables, Spectral representation, Density Matrices

14ª aula

Unitary operators, NOT gate, square root of the not-gate, Hamarad-Walsh matrix, decomposable is entangled states, controlled not gate, No-cloning Theorem, Quantum Copymachine, Observation procedure

15ª aula

Properties of QTM, Reversible Circuits, Toffoli gate, Quantum Circuits, Spectral Representation of Unitary Operators, Rotation matrix, Unitary Evolution, Feynman’s Quantum Computer

16ª aula

Simulating a simple Quantum Computer, Feynman’s QC, Cursor Qubits, Two square rot NOT gates, Creation/Annihilation Operator, time independent Hamiltonian Operator H , Unitary Evolution Operator, Running the Quantum Computer, Measurment and Projection of the Cursor Bit, Errors in the Hamiltonian

17ª aula

Symmetric Cryptography, Asymmetric Cryptography, RSA, Number Field Sieve” heuristic algorithm, Code-Breaking on a Quantum Computer, Shor’s Algorithm, period of x modulo n, quantum algorithm, discrete fourier transform, simulation

18ª aula

Shor's algorithm in steps, gcd, continued fraction, continued expansion of pi , convergent to the continued fraction expansion, examples

19ª aula

Search Problems, Probabilistic Search, Randomization, Quantum Search with One Query, Quantum Blackbox, Total Probability is bigger as in Probabilistic Search

20ª aula

Operators for Grover’s Amplification, Amplitude Amplification, inversion about average, probability to find the answer, Iterative use, what is the requiered number of queries?, NP problems and the complexity O(sqrt(2**n))

21ª aula

Why can a quantum algorithm improve on NP to P?; Unitary Evolution; Deutsch-Jozsa problem; Hadamard matrix; Householder matrix; Amplitude Amplification by linear mappig; Unitary Operators: Sharp -> Superposition; Spy Systems

22ª aula

What is Teleportation? EPR effect, local interaction, nonlocal interaction, entangled state, ebit, teleporitng a qubit, we need two bits to teleport a qubit

23ª aula

No teleportation theorem, How to teleport a Qubit, Bell basis, No-communication theorem, Mach-Zehnder interferometer, IBM Test-Tube Quantum Computer , Ion Trap-Basded

24ª aula

Classical physics information , Shannon information, Von Neumann entropy, density matrix, Conjugate pairs, Heisenberg Uncertainty, Polarization, Quantum Cryptography, Detection of eavesdropping

25ª aula

Overview: The Library of Babel, What is an A?, Entropy - Information, Measurment, Hierarchy, Information Gain, Neocognitron, Associative Memory, Entscheidungsproblem, The Church-Turing thesis, Simple 2-state system, qubit, Compound systems, Toffoli gate, Spectral Representation of Unitary Operators, Shor’s Algorithm for factoring n, Grover’s Amplification, No teleportation theorem, ebit, von Neumann entropy, Heisenberg Uncertainty