1-Introduction to quantum mechanics 1.1-Vector spaces
1.2- Bases, norms, inner products
1.3- Linear Operators
1.4-Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
1.5- Adjoint, Hermitian and Unitary operators
1.6- Operator functions
1.7- Pauli and generalized Pauli matrices
1.8- Postulates of quantum mechanics
2-Introduction to quantum computation and information
2.1-Single and multiple qubit operations
2.2-Universal quantum gates
2.3- Bit flip and phase shift channels
2.4- Depolarizing channel
2.5-Amplitude damping channel 2.6-Measure of distance of quantum states
2.7-Fidelity
3-Quantum error-correcting codes
3.1-The Shor code
3.2-The Steane code
3.3-Five quibit code
3.4-Quantum Hamming and Singleton bound
3.4-Stabilizer codes
3.5-Calderbank-Shor-Steane code construction
3.6-Hermitian construction
3.7-Ste
ane's enlargement construction 3.8-Additive codes
4-Quantum code construction
4.1-Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes
4.2-Reed-Solomon codes 4.3-Reed-Muller codes
4.4-Quadratic residue codes
4.5-Constacyclic codes
4.6- Affine Invariant codes
4.7-Algebraic geometry codes
4.8-Synchronizable codes
5-Asymmetric quantum code construction
5.1- Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes
5.2- Reed-Solomon codes
5.3-Tensor product codes
5.4-Alternalt codes
5.5- Algebraic geometry codes
5.6-New codes from old
6-Quantum convolutional code construction
6.1-Convolutional codes 6.2-Quantum convolutional codes
6.3- Code construction: Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem,
Reed-Solomon
Reed-Muller
6.4-Construction of asymmetric quantum convolutional codes
About the Author: Giuliano G. La Guardia received a Master's degree in pure mathematics in 1998 and a PhD in electrical engineering in 2008, both from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil. Since 1999 he has been with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the State University of Ponta Grossa, where he is an Associate Professor. His research areas include quantum and classical coding theory, matroid theory, category theory and dynamical systems theory.
