S. Ling, C. Xing. Coding theory: a first course, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004
M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum computation and quantum information, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010
N. Lauritzen, Concrete abstract algebra, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013
Teaching Methods
Lectures.
Type of Assessment
Exams (oral).
Course program
Introduction to the coding problem.
Codes and their bounds. Linear codes and their bounds. Examples. Minimum distance linear decoding. Synfrome and standard array decoding. Comparison. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (axioms and discussion about them). Shor's algorithm.