ACADEMIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE
No. Acd.l5315 IIAPC-134 Dated: December 11 ,2023
Head, Department of Physics
The IAPC in its 134th meeting held on 17.11.2023 vide Item No. 134.2.3 (5) has
approved the syllabus of the new PEC i.e., 'PHN-640: Quantum computing for many-body
systems' of the Department of Physics.
The approved syllabus is attached as Appendix-A.
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Appendix-A
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE
NAME OF DEPARTMENT/CENTRE/SCHOOL: Department of Physics
1. Subject Code: PHN-640 Course Title: Quantum computing for many-body systems
2. Contact Hours: L: 2 T: 1 P: 2
3. Examination Duration (Hrs.): Theory: 2 Practical: 2
4. Relative Weightage: CWS: 10-25 PRS: 25 MTE: 15-25 ETE: 30-40 PRE: 0
5. Credits: 4 6. Semester: Both 7. Subject Area: PEC
8. Pre-requisite: Knowledge of basic Quantum Mechanics and Programming
9. Objective: The course is designed to provide the basic knowledge of the currently evolving field of
quantum computing for many body systems and its applications to solve the problems of Physics.
10. Details of the Course:
S.No. Contents Contact
Hours
1. Introduction to Quantum Computation: Representing Qubit States, Single Qubit 8
Gates, Multiple Qubits and Entangled States, More Circuit Identities, Design of
Quantum Circuits, Measurements in Bases other than Computational Basis.
2. Quantum Algorithms: Shor's Algorithm, Bernstein-Vazirani Algorithm, 10
Quantum Fourier Transform, Quantum Phase Estimation, Variational Quantum
Eigensolver (VQE), SWAP Test, Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU).
3. Quantum simulation of many-body Hamiltonian: Encodings and 10
Transformations (Jordan-Wigner transformation, Gray code encoding), Many-
body Hamiltonian, VQE and suitable Ansatz, Simulations results in the presence of
hardware noise.
Total 28
Laboratory Work:
Lab 1. Quantum Circuits
Lab 2. Quantum Measurement
Lab 3. Shor’s Algorithm
Lab 4. Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE)
Lab 5. Quantum Phase Estimation
Lab 6. Iterative Quantum Phase Estimation
Lab 7. Preparation of Excited State and SWAP test
Lab 8. Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU)
Lab 9. Measurement error mitigation
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11. Suggested Books:
S.No. Name of Authors/Books/ Publisher Year of
Publication/Reprint
1. M.A. Nielsen and I.L. Chuang, “Quantum Computation and Quantum 2010
Information Cambridge”, Cambridge University Press.
2. D.J. Griffiths, “Introduction to Quantum Mechanics”, Prentice Hall, 2016
Inc.
3. N.D. Mermin, “Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction”, 2007
Cambridge University Press.
4. “Learn Quantum Computation Using Qiskit” https://qiskit.org/learn/ 2023
5. R.M. Roth, “Introduction to Coding Theory”, Cambridge University 2006
Press.
6. S.M. Blinder and J.E. House, “Mathematical Physics in Theoretical 2019
Chemistry”, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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