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  • Course information

    Welcome!

    On this page you will find general information about the course Quantum Information (ELEC-C9440). In case you have any questions, please contact the course staff via the general discussion forum below, or in more personal matters by email.

    Course staff
    The teachers of this course are Prof. Ilkka Tittonen, Matti Raasakka, Arttu Pönni and Vladimir Kornienko. The course assistants are Vivian Phan and Qingxin Yang.

    Weekly schedule
    There are two lecture videos every week (taken from last year's course) and one on-campus lecture. The on-campus lecture is organized on Wednesdays at 10:15-12:00 in lecture hall TU7 (Maarintie 8). The recommendation is that you will have watched the lecture videos before attending the on-campus lecture, since there we will build on the material covered in the lecture videos. See 'Schedule and materials' page for a more detailed schedule and topics.

    WARNING: Due to the reuse of last year's lecture videos, there may appear some expired information in the videos concerning the organization of the course. Please, always refer to this MyCourses page for the up-to-date information.

    There are two exercise sessions per week.  These are also on-campus in lecture hall TU7 (Maarintie 8), except on 5.5 when the session will be held in TU5. The exercise session times are:
    • Wednesdays 12:15-14:00
    • Thursday 8:15-10:00

    Participation in lectures and exercise sessions is not mandatory, but highly recommended.

    Deadline for returning solutions to the weekly exercise problems is on Sunday at 23:59. Model solutions to the problems are published on the following week.

    Study materials
    Lecture slides will be published weekly. As the course material is rather varied, we will be using several different textbooks for this course. We will be using at least Nielsen, Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition, Cambridge University Press. In addition, several freely available materials will be used, which will be linked to 'Schedule and materials' page.

    Exam

    Exam is organized on the 2nd of June at 9:00-12:00 in lecture hall AS1 (Maarintie 8).

    Here's the exam from last year: link


    Grading
    The course grade is based on the exercise problem points and the exam points. There will be altogether 6 weekly exercise problem sets, with 5 problems each, and one exam. The final points for the course will be determined as follows:
    • max. 3p/exercise problem => maximum points from weekly exercise problems = 90p
    • max. 90p from exam (minimum 20% of points must be obtained to pass the exam)

    The final grade will be determined based on the sum of these two contributions. The lower limits for the different grades are:
    90p (50%) => grade 1
    108p (60%) => grade 2
    126p (70%) => grade 3
    144p (80%) => grade 4
    162p (90%) => grade 5

    In addition, you must get at least 20% of the maximum score from the exams in order to pass the course.

    Absences and compensations
    Any absence is the students own responsibility. If you cannot attend an exam or give in a weekly exercise due to illness, contact the teacher as soon as possible. Any compensations or special arrangements must be negotiated with the teacher well in advance.