Hello Quantum World! A rigorous but accessible first-year university course in quantum information science

I will describe a course we developed at Virginia Tech called ‘Hello Quantum World!’ that introduces a broad range of fundamental quantum information and computation concepts in a rigorous way but without requiring any knowledge of mathematics beyond high-school algebra nor any prior knowledge of quantum mechanics. Some of the topics covered include superposition, entanglement, quantum gates, teleportation, quantum algorithms, and quantum error correction. The course is designed for first-year undergraduate students, but we have also successfully used a simplified version of this material for a week-long summer school for high-school students that we have run for the last few years.