Quantum Information Science

Riccardo Manenti, Senior Quantum Engineer, Rigetti Computing,Mario Motta, Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center

Riccardo Manenti earned his DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2017 with a thesis investigating the coupling between a superconducting qubit and a mechanical oscillator based on surface acoustic waves. His research contributed to the formation of a new research field, now called circuit quantum acousto-dynamics. He is currently a Senior Quantum Engineer at Rigetti Computing, a quantum computing company based in Berkeley, California.


Mario Motta earned his Ph.D. at the University of Milano in 2015 with a thesis on quantum Monte Carlo simulation of fermionic systems. After postdoctoral positions at the College of William and Mary and the California Institute of Technology, he became a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center in 2019.

PART I - FOUNDATIONS
1. Mathematical tools
2. Computational models
3. Linear algebra
4. Quantum mechanics
5. Quantum circuits
PART II - MODERN QUANTUM MECHANICS
6. Density operators
7. Quantum maps
8. Decoherence
PART III - APPLICATIONS
9. Entanglement
10. Early quantum algorithms
11. Quantum simulation of Hamiltonian dynamics
12. Quantum simulation of Hamiltonian eigenstates
PART IV - QUANTUM ENGINEERING OF SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES
13. Microwave resonators for superconducting devices
14. Superconducting qubits
Appendix A. The rotating wave approximation
Appendix B. Advanced quantum mechanics
Appendix C. The quantum Fourier transform
Appendix D. The molecular Hamiltonian in second quantization