Week 1, summary --------------- 1. Introduction: ------------ Requirements for the course. Introduction about computation. Syllabus of the course, combined with history of the field of quantum computation. 2. What is a quantum bit? ---------------------- The two slit experiment. What is a qubit. Inner product, Hilbert spaces, measurements of one qubit in general basis. 3. Two qubits and entanglement. --------------------------- Tensor products. Two qubit states. The EPR paradox. A protocol demonstrating the strength of quantum correlations (entanglement)- which can be viewed as modified Bell inequalities.