15-898 Quantum Computing Systems

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course will cover the fundamental concepts quantum computation and quantum computer systems, including recent progress on research topics. Specific topics include the following quantum fundamentals, quantum gates and circuits, quantum circuit synthesis/compilation (including Solovay Kitaev algorithm) quantum circuit optimization (search algorithms and local optimality) quantum simulation (dense and sparse approaches) quantum algorithms In addition to lectures, the course will include a project on a topic chosen by the student (or a group of students). The course is open to all students and especially to students with background is ""classical"" computer science, including algorithms, programming languages, systems (in no particular order).

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Fall 2026

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