EC ENGR 128 · EE 128Principles of Quantum Technology
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to basic principles of quantum information processing technology. Covers fundamental concepts including qubits, states and observables, measurement uncertainty, quantum dynamics, nonlocality, entanglement, and elementary quantum physical systems. Exploration of several applications such as quantum teleportation, communication, cryptography, and computing.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course 2 or Physics 1C. Recommended requisite: Mathematics 115A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataBruinTree reads · Recommended
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EC ENGR 128
- EC ENGR 2Physics for Electrical Engineers
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativityanother path to it
- MATH 115ALinear Algebra
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
3 direct requisites. Showing 22 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.