COM SCI 238 · CS 238Quantum Programming
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Formerly numbered M238.) History of quantum computing; the notion of a qubit; the four postulates that provide an interface to quantum mechanics; the concepts of a quantum circuit and a universal gate set; quantum teleportation; superdense coding; the no-cloning theorem; a suite of fundamental quantum algorithms including Shor's algorithm, Grover's algorithm, and the quantum approximate optimization algorithm; several quantum programming languages and how they compare; quantum simulators; quantum compilers; quantum error correction; quantum advantage. Students implement several quantum algorithms in multiple languages and run them on both simulators and a quantum computer.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
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Requisite: Mathematics 115A.
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