Course

Physics of Information 2022 --- A Course being offered Currently at CMI --- H.S. Mani

Physics of Information

A Course being Offered Currently at Chennai Mathematical Institute

• Lecture Notes
• Home Work and Solutions
• Test and Examination Papers
• Suggested for Further Study
• Video Recording Links
• Lecture 1 -- Jan 25, 2022
• Review of Laws of Thermodynamics; Concept of EntropyCarnot Engine;Maxwell's Demon
• Lecture 2 --  Jan 28, 2022
• Maxwell's Demon 2;Work of Landauer and Bennet
• Lecture 3 -- Feb 1, 2022
• Landauer Bennet argument; erasure of information costs energyInformation and Entropy; Shannon Entropy; Joint  Entropy;Connection with Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
• Lecture 4 -- Feb  3, 2022
• Erasure of Information; Different Protocols;Work Done in A Measurement; Classical Information Theory;Joint Entropy; Conditional Entropy;Mutual Information;An Example
• Lecture 5 -- Feb  8, 2022
• Quantum Information Theory Joint Entropy; Conditional Entropy; Mutual InformationMeasurement in Quantum Mechanics; Projective Measurement;Positive Operator Valued Measurement; Relative Entropy
• Lecture 6 --- Feb 10, 2022
• Measurement; Projective Measurement; Positive Operator Valued Measurement
• Lecture 7 --- Feb 15, 2022
• Change in entropy in a projective measurement; Purification;Concave property of von Neumann entropy
• Lecture 8 --- Feb 17, 2022
• Quantum Szilard Engine
• Lecture 9 --- Feb 22, 2022
• Lecture 10 Feb 24, 2022
• Lecture 11, Mar 1, 2022
• Lecture 12 Mar 4, 2022
• Lecture 13 Mar 8, 2022
• Lecture 14. Mar 15, 2022
• Lecture 15 March 24, 2022

 Books recommended

1. Michael A.Nielsen and Issac L. Chuang, "Quantum Information and Quantum Computing", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2000)
2. Mark M. Wilde,"Quantum Information Theory", Cambridge University Press Cambridge (2013)
3. Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas, "Elements of Information Theory" Wiley-Interscience 2nt Edn (2006)
4.  Harvey S Leff and Andrew F. Rex (ed.) "Maxwell's Demon2--  Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information Computing", Institute of Physics Publishers, Bristol (2003)