COL7160: Quantum Computing

2025-26, Sem 2

Course Information

Instructor: Rajendra Kumar

Email: rajendra@cse.iitd.ac.in

Prerequisites: Good Understanding of Linear Algebra, Data Structures and Discrete Mathematics.

Lecture Timings: Mondays and Thursdays, 3:30 PM - 4:50 PM; Venue: LH 413.5

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM by appointment ( reserve the meeting slot ).

Tentative Course Policy

The final grade will be based on the following components:

  • 3 Quizzes: 48%
  • Major Exam: 35%
  • Assignment: 5%
  • Notes Scribe: 5%
  • Class participation: 7%.

Audit Policy: To audit pass this course, minimum 75% attendance and need to score at least 50% marks in Quizzes and Major exam.

Plagiarism: Any form of plagiarism or academic misconduct will result in strict disciplinary action.

Please follow the scribe template. Here is the reference file .

Teaching Assistants

Name: Poojan Shah

📧 Email: cs1221594@iitd.ac.in

⏰ Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Name: Hridayansh Sharma

📧 Email: mcs242447@cse.iitd.ac.in

⏰ Office Hours: TBA

References

Tentative Class Schedule

Lecture Date Topic Reference
105 Jan 2026 Introduction [NC] Chapter 1.1
208 Jan 2026 Quantum bits and Tensor product [NC] Chapter 1.2
312 Jan 2026 Measurement [NC] Chapter 1.3
415 Jan 2026 Unitary Operations and Quantum Gates [NC] Chapter 1.3
519 Jan 2026 Qubit Copying and Teleportation [W] Chapter 1.3-1.5
622 Jan 2026 Quantum Circuit Model [W] Chapter 2.1-2.3
729 Jan 2026 Oracle Model and Deutsch’s Algorithm [1 ][2 ] [NC] Chapter 1.4
802 Feb 2026 Deutsch--Jozsa Algorithm and Bernstein–Vazirani Problem [W] Chapter 2.4
905 Feb 2026 Simon's Algorithm [W] Chapter 3.1,3.2
1009 Feb 2026 Lower Bound for Simon's Problem [W] Chapter 3.3
1112 Feb 2026 Phase Estimation Problem [W] Chapter 4
1216 Feb 2026 Quantum Fourier Transform [W] Chapter 4
139 Mar 2026 Factoring to Order Finding Reduction [W] Chapter 5
1412 Mar 2026 Shor’s Algorithm (Order Finding) [W] Chapter 5, [NC] Chapter 5.3
1516 Mar 2026 Breaking Diffie–Hellman Key Exchange
1619 Mar 2026 Hidden Subgroup Problem [W] Chapter 6.1
1723 Mar 2026 Solving the Hidden Subgroup Problem[1] [2] [W] Chapter 6.2-6.3
1830 Mar 2026 Grover’s Search Algorithm[1] [2] [W] Chapter 7.1-7.2
1902 Apr 2026 Grover’s Algorithm and Amplitude Amplification[1] [2] [W] Chapter 7.3-7.4
2006 Apr 2026 Grover’s Algorithm with Unknown Number of Solutions[1] [2] [RL] Chapter 13.1-13.3
2109 Apr 2026 Amplitude Estimation and Quantum Query Lower Bounds[1] [NC] Chapter 6.3, [W] Chapter 11.1-11.2