Notes on Quantum Information Theory (and some other stuff as well…)

 

  1. [16-03-03] “Convex Analysis in Quantum Information Theory”. Presentation at “Advances in Quantum Information Processing”, Erice, Sicily 15-22 March 2003. (PDF)
  2. [18-06-03] “The MSW Correspondence between Holevo capacity and Entanglement of Formation.” (PS / PDF) [draft]
  3. [20-06-03] “Convergence of Sequences of Functions and Dini’s Theorem.” (PS / PDF)
  4. [25-09-03] “Additivity Questions in QIT: recent results and outlook”. Presentation at “QIT-EQIS: A Satellite Workshop to EQIS '03. Quantum Information Theory”, Kyoto, Japan, 2-3 Sept, 2003. (PDF)
  5. [26-11-03] “Applications of Convex Optimisation”. Talk at Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK, 26 Nov, 2003. (PDF)
  6. [14-12-03] “Quantum Information Theory: An Invitation for Matrix Analysts”. Presentation at “Intl. Conf. on Matrix Analysis and Applications”, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 14-16 Dec 2003. (PDF)
  7. [20-02-04] “Quantum Theory and Global Optimisation”. Talk at Imperial College London, Physics Dept. (PDF)
  8. [01-03-04] “Quantum Theory and Global Warming (?)”. Talk at University of York, Mathematics Dept. (PDF)
  9. [10-06-04] “Accessible fidelity and quantumness of sets of quantum states”. Presentation at the 36th Symposium on Mathematical Physics, SMP-36, Torun, Poland, June 10, 2004. (PDF)
  10. [05-07-04] “Quantum Theory and Global Optimisation”. Presentation at the 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS2004), Mini-Symposium on Quantum Information, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 5-9 July 2004. (PDF)
  11. [05-12-04] “A Digest on Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group.” An incomplete but hopefully useful set of notes... (PDF) Comments warmly welcomed! (Likely to be updated a number of times; check the date)
  12. [07-12-04] “Applications of Representation Theory in Quantum Information.” Talk given at Imperial College London, Physics Dept. (PDF)
  13. [25-02-05] “Comments on ‘Permanents in Linear-Optics Networks’, by S. Scheel” (PDF)
  14. [25-02-05] “Fractional powers of positive positive definite matrices” (No typo!) (PDF)
  15. [11-03-05]   An Introduction to Matlab™ (DOC)
  16. [11-03-05] “Applications of Representation Theory in Quantum Information.” Talk given at DAMTP, Cambridge University, UK (PDF)
  17. [04-10-05] “Norm Compression Inequalities for Block Partitioned Matrices.” Talk given at Northeastern University, Boston MA, USA (PDF)
  18. [23-11-05] “Norm Compression Inequalities for Block Partitioned Matrices.” Talk given at the Non-commutative Day of Imperial College’s Mathematics Department, London (PDF)
  19. [07-03-06] “New Graph Invariants from Quantum Physics.” Presentation at QAP-RESQ Theory Meeting, Paris, 6 to 8 March 2006 (PDF)
  20. [22-03-06] “Hard-Core Bosons and the Graph Isomorphism Problem.” Talk given at Imperial College, 9 August 2005 (PDF)
  21. [12-06-06] “Optimising Success Probabilities for Linear Optics Gates.” Talk given at Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Munich (Schloss Ringberg) April 18, 2006, and at the 38th Symposium on Mathematical Physics, SMP-38, Torun, Poland, June 5, 2006. (PDF)
  22. [12-06-06] “Entanglement on mixed stabilizer states: normal forms and reduction procedures”, Presentation given at QUOXIC (Imperial and Oxford) seminar, October 10, 2005, and at the WORKSHOP ON THEORY AND TECHNOLOGY in QUANTUM INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, COMPUTATION AND CRYPTOGRAPHY, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (19 - 23 June 2006). (PDF)
  23. [27-11-06] “Quantum Statistics in Quantum Information”, Workshop on Quantum Statistics, ESI, Vienna, 27 November – 1st December 2006. (PDF)
  24. [16-12-06] “Norm Compression Inequalities for Block Partitioned Matrices.” 2nd Intl. Conf. on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 15–17 December 2006. (PDF)
  25. [08-01-07] “Matrix Analysis”, Post-graduate lecture, Imperial College London (2007). (PDF)
  26. [16-02-06] “Quantum Hypothesis Testing: non-commutative generalisations of the Chernoff and Hoeffding bounds,” BIRS Workshop 07w5119, Operator Structures in Quantum Information Theory, Banff, Canada, Februari 11-16, 2007 (PDF).