This course offers comprehensive overview of emerging quantum technologies that are supposed to revolutionize the field of communication in the near future, emphasizing quantum communication protocols with practical applications and advantages over the classical schemes, while also covering recent advancements in the field. 

TOPICS: Quantum Mechanics for Quantum Communications, Fundamentals of Quantum Optics, Quantum Communication protocols; Quantum Key Distributions (QKD), Quantum Repeaters. Quantum Internet

The potential applications of quantum computing range from cryptography to novel drug discovery. These applications rely on quantum algorithms - algorithms that run on quantum computer and provide significant speed up. This course offers a comprehensive overview of quantum algorithms, emphasizing algorithms with practical applications and well-defined performance bounds, while also covering recent advancements in the field. This course is a great follow-on course to 8381 Quantum Logic and Computing, but prior enrollment in 8381 is not required.

TOPICS: Quantum Bits and Circuits, Quantum Fourier Transform, Quantum Search Algorithms, Variational Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Machine Learning