QNT SCI 402Quantum Information
Quantum Science and Technology · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Density matrix evolution, decoherence, characterization of quantum states, distance measures between quantum states, fidelity, quantum error correction, entropy and information, and quantum information theory. May not be repeated for credit.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 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
Requisite: Physics 245.
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QNT SCI 402
- PHYSICS 245Quantum Computation
- PHYSICS 115AQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 115BQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 105BAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 115CQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields2 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)2 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity1 more beneath
1 direct requisite. Showing 19 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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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
QNT SCI 402
- QNT SCI 403Theory of Quantum Devices
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.