The object of the final project is to find a research article related to the course material, read it carefully, and write a brief (max 1-2 page, or as little as a couple paragraphs) summary of its results, including some indication of how accessible it was (notation, concepts, etc.) based on material covered during the semester. The object is to determine whether you can read and understand a topical research article at least at the 30-40% level, though it might have been incomprehensible at the start of the semester.

Sample arXiv searches: Cnot, qubit, GHZ, quantum comput*, teleportation, ... , turn up things such as the below (biased toward the more recent), but feel free especially to survey references therein, or any other resource. This is not meant to be either definitive or representative, just a sample. Feel free to suggest other possibilities.

Surveys

Theory and Algorithms

Experimental realizations

Dense coding

qutrits, etc

Error Correction and Architecture

Counterfactual Computation and Quantum Zeno