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MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Spring 2003 Catalogue Supplement |
L TR2:30-4, Room 5-234
Professor Terry Orlando, Room 13-3005, 3-5888
Prereq.: 6.728 or equivalent
3-0-9
This subject qualifies as an Devices, Circuits, and Systems Engineering Concentration subject.
Resistanceless nanoscale circuits, their quantization, and their use in quantum computing will be discussed at three levels. First simple resistanceless circuits will be studied classically and then quantized. Second, an introduction will be made on how these simple quantized circuits can be used as a quantum mechanical computing bit. Superconductors offer the best prospects for implementing resistanceless circuits and examples of such quantum bits will then be studied in detail. Thirdly, going beyond these simple examples, a network theory formulations will be used to describe general circuits. The canonical variables and the transition from the classical to quantum Hamiltonian will be done for circuits with and without sources. The class will end with integration of quantum computing circuits with fast classical electronics used to control the quantum bits.
This will be an advanced topics subject. Its essential prerequisite materials are undergradate understanding of: linear algebra (vectors, matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors), and quantum mechanics (Schroedinger Equation, Hamiltonians, solutions to the harmonic oscillator). There will be no text. Supplementary references for lecture material will be provided. There will be regular problem sets, but no quizzes or final examination. A term paper will be required. To assist in choosing term paper topics, a list of possibilities (with references) will be provided.
See http://we(b)mit.edu/6.763/www/SpecialTopics/info.html