Quantum Computing (QC) will soon have a substantial impact on industry -- from healthcare and pharmaceuticals to manufacturing and finance. It will not only allow companies to do things faster than traditional computing, but entirely different.
Pairing MIT’s leading experts in the field with IBM’s cutting-edge quantum computing tools, services, and hands-on materials for learners, this two-course online certificate program will take you deeper into the practical applications of quantum computing. You will explore quantum noise as well as the concepts of quantum error correction, the threshold for practical, fault-tolerant quantum computation, and models of quantum computation beyond quantum circuits. Understand the true possibilities and advantages of quantum computing while getting hands-on experience in this two-course online program.
- Familiarize with the practical tradeoffs between trapped ion and superconducting qubit implementations of quantum computers.
- Gain proficiency with the typical coherence times and quantum gate counts achievable with leading quantum computer implementations.
- Summarize the the physical limits for quantum coherence times and quantum communication limits over optical fibers.
- Evaluate technology options for realizing quantum computers and quantum communication systems using atoms, photons, and superconductors.
- Describe the conceptual role of fault-tolerance in realizing large-scale quantum and classical computation.
- Gain knowledge of one quantum error correction code, and its code parameters.
- Familiarize yourself with the scientific basis for families of quantum error correction codes.
- Understand the different strategies for counteracting systematic versus random error in quantum computation.