3 credits.

Prerequisites: C or better in MATH 344 or MATH 544 or equivalent, or permission by the instructor; and C or better in MATH 511 or STAT 511 or equivalent, or permission by the instructor; knowledge of quantum mechanics is not required.

Fundamentals of quantum information theory and quantum communications. Topics include: Postulates of quantum mechanics, classical information and entropy, compression of classical information and classical typical sets, quantum entropy and quantum relative entropy, quantum states discrimination, Schumacher's theory of quantum compression and quantum typical subspace, communicating classical information using quantum channels, the Classical Capacity Theorem of a quantum channel.