LECTURE SERIES

Introduction to

QuantumInformation Theory

Speaker:

Michael KeylISI Foundation, Turin

Phys. Rep. 369 (2002), 431-548 arXiv: quant-ph/0202122

Literature: Fundamentals of QuantumInformation Theory

All lectures take place at the MPI-MIS, Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the

Sciences (Inselstr. 22), in lecture halls G10/A02

29.05.-01.06.MPI-MIS, G10/A02

Tue, 29.05., room G10 9:30-10:30: basic concepts 11:00-12:00: entanglement

Wed, 30.05., room G10 9:30-10:30: completely positive maps I

Thu, 31.05., room A02 9:30-10:30: completely positive maps II

Fri, 01.06., room G10 9:30-10:30: channel capacities 11:00-12:00: entanglement measures

for further information and the related seminar series, see www.physik.uni-leipzig.de/~qit

Quantum information theory is a rediscussion of quantum mechanics in an information theoretical contextand at the same time a generalization of classical information theory to the quantum world. This series oflectures gives an introduction to the mathematical and conceptual foundations of this theory, and to themost important quantitative questions. Concepts to be discussed here include: states and observables,information, entropy, entanglement, classical and quantum channels, positive and completely positive maps,error correction, channel capacities, distillation of entanglement, and entanglement measures.