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MIT OpenCourseWare
Quantum Computation
- Instructor
- Prof. Peter Shor
- Term
- Fall 2003
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 45 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 18.435J Quantum Computation, Fall 2003, Prof. Peter Shor — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- A lecture sequence of 23 items is confirmed. Assignment and exam materials exist too, but MIT's own order for them could not be verified, so they're shown as materials below rather than a sequence.
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Materials by section
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Lecture Notes
9 files
- Lecture 2 · Basics of Quantum Mechanics · Lecture notes (Courtesy of Vitaly Feldman. Used with permission.) Download
- Lecture 4 · Classical Computation Models and Quantum Gates · Lecture notes (Courtesy of Moses Liskov. Used with permission.) Download
- Lecture 5 · Quantum Circuits and a Simple Quantum Algorithm · Lecture notes (Courtesy of Dion Harmon. Used with permission.) Download
- Lecture 11 · Applications of Grover’s Search Algorithm · Lecture notes (Courtesy of Yuan-Chung Cheng. Used with permission.) Download
- Lecture 13 · Quantum Computation Models · Lecture notes (Courtesy of Eric Fellheimer. Used with permission.) Download
- Lecture 14 · Cluster States · Lecture notes (Courtesy of Ilia Mirkin. Used with permission.) Download
- Lecture 16 · Quantum Error Correction · Lecture notes (Courtesy of Dah-Yoh Lim. Used with permission.) Download
- Lecture 19 · Guest Lecture by Isaac Chuang on Implementations of Quantum Computing: How to Build your… · Lecture notes (Courtesy of Fen Zhao. Used with permission.) Download
- Lecture 23 · Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation · Lecture notes (Courtesy of Jonathan Hodges. Used with permission.) Download
Assignments
20 problem sets
- Problem set (homework1.pdf) Download
- Problem set solution (solutions1.pdf) Download
- Problem set (homework2.pdf) Download
- Problem set solution (solutions2.pdf) Download
- Problem set (homework3.pdf) Download
- Problem set solution (solutions3.pdf) Download
- Problem set (homework4.pdf) Download
- Problem set solution (solutions4.pdf) Download
- Problem set (homework5.pdf) Download
- Problem set solution (solutions5.pdf) Download
- Problem set (ps2.pdf) Download
- Problem set solution (ps2sol.pdf) Download
- Problem set (ps1.pdf) Download
- Problem set solution (ps1sol.pdf) Download
- Problem set (ps6.pdf) Download
- Problem set solution (ps6sol.pdf) Download
- Problem set (ps5.pdf) Download
- Problem set solution (ps5sol.pdf) Download
- Problem set (ps10.pdf) Download
- Problem set solution (ps10sol.pdf) Download
Exams
Other materials from this course
13 files
- This resource contains problem set 3 which deals with 5 problems (ps3.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of problem set 3 (ps3sol.pdf) Download
- This resource contains problem set 4 which deals with 8 problems (ps4.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of problem set 4 (ps4sol.pdf) Download
- This resource contains problem set 7 which deals with 4 problems (ps7.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions for problem set 7 (ps7sol.pdf) Download
- This resource contains problem set 8 which deals with 3 problems (ps8.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of problem set 8 (ps8sol.pdf) Download
- This resource contains problem set 9 which deals with 6 problems (ps9.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of problem set 9 (ps9sol.pdf) Download
- This resource deals with explaination on superdense coding and quantum teleportation (qc_lec12.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of midterm exam (midtermsol.pdf) Download
- This resource deals with midterm exam (midterm.pdf) Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Basics of Quantum Mechanics
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Lecture 3: More Basics of Quantum Mechanics
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Lecture 4: Classical Computation Models and Quantum Gates
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Lecture 5: Quantum Circuits and a Simple Quantum Algorithm
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Lecture 6: More on Quantum Circuits
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Lecture 7: Simon’s algorithm
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Lecture 8: Factoring
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Lecture 9: More on Factoring
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Lecture 10: Grover’s search algorithm
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Lecture 11: Applications of Grover’s Search Algorithm
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Lecture 12: Superdense Coding and Quantum Teleportation
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Lecture 13: Quantum Computation Models
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Lecture 14: Cluster States
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Lecture 15: More on Computing with Cluster States
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Lecture 16: Quantum Error Correction
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Lecture 17: Quantum Mechanics
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Lecture 18: More on Quantum Mechanics
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Lecture 19: Guest Lecture by Isaac Chuang on Implementations of Quantum Computing: How to Build your Own Quantum Computer
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Lecture 20: Quantum CSS Codes
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Lecture 21: More on Quantum Error Correcting Codes
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Lecture 22: Quantum Cryptography
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Lecture 23: Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Peter Shor, 18.435J Quantum Computation, Fall 2003.
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