LECTURE AUDIO AND SLIDES

April 17, 2025

Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Michael A. Nielsen
University of Queensland

This web presentation contains the audio and slides of a lecture given on Monday, May 14, 2001 as part of the Fields Institute's Summer School in Quantum Information Processing.

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1 Introduction
2 3
4 Structure
5 Qubits
6 Postulate 1
7 Conventions
8 Dynamics
9 Unitary matrices
10 Nomenclature
11 Postulate 2
12 Why unitaries?
13 Pauli gates
14
15 Measuring
16 17 18
19 Inner products and duals
20 Postulate 3
21 Measurement problem
22 Revised postulate 1
23 Multiple qubit systems
24 Postulate 4
25 Summary
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