Topic outline

  • General

    Update: Starting with the curriculum 2024-2026, the PQC course will take place in periods 1 and 2. This means that in 2024 the course is organized twice: a) in period 5 of 2023-2024; b) in periods 1 and 2 of 2024-2025.



    Lecture hall: T5 - A133 (CS Building)

    Q&A hall: AS6 - 1521-1522 (TUAS Building)

    Zulip Chat https://pqc2024.zulip.aalto.fi

    Motivation. Quantum computing promises a technical revolution, but what exactly does it refer to? Popular science articles often talk about qubit, entanglement, algorithm, quantum chemistry and the discovery of new drugs and materials. It is important to introduce the foundations of quantum computing, from a practical, realistic and (whenever possible) visual perspective.

    Quantum communication networks are already used for communicating across continents (Europe-Asia), and the first small scale quantum computers are available in the cloud for experiments. 


    Nevertheless, industrially relevant quantum computing seems to be at least a decade away, because quantum error correction is a necessity but the current hardware is too resource restricted.