Professor: Seth Cottrell
Class: PHYS 33500-M1 / PHYS V6150-M1
Lectures: T/Th 10:00-11:40, Marshak 418N
Things you need: the book, the syllabus, and a notational cheat sheet.
Homework: chapters 1 & 2 are due Thursday, 2/5
The Lab Manual: Is here. It describes the equipment and the experiments suggested by Thorlabs, but doesn't cover all of the experiments we'll be doing.
Final Exam: is on 5/26, 8:00-10:15am (sorry) This, this, and this are final exams from previous semesters
Chapter 22: Quantum Information II
Chapter 21: Quantum Information I
Chapter 19: Classical Information I
This is Shannon's original paper on information theory (which, assuming no background, is fairly readable). This one is about using information theory to determine whether a text in an unknown language is text or an ancient spreadsheet.
Chapter 17: Error Correction
Chapter 16: Quantum Noise
Chapter 15: Generalized Measurements
Chapter 14: The Shor Algorithm
This is the original "puzzle column" from Scientific American where RSA was secretly introduced. See if you can spot it! This is a paper about post-quantum cryptography.
Chapter 13: The Quantum Fourier Transform
Chapter 12: Entanglement
A thing about generalizing Bell states. The paper about using telescopes to do the Aspect experiment at cosmic scales. This is about doing a bell-test on objects (barely) large enough to be seen. And this is the Free Will Theorem, that questions whether an experimenter is more free to choose measurements than an electron is to choose the result.
Chapter 11: Density Matrices 2
Chapter 10: Density Matrices 1
Chapter 9: Quantum Algorithms
A paper about how quantum effects may be used in photosynthesis, and another that argues that the Grover algorithm is "natural" (or at least, the most immediate option).
Chapter 8: Quantum Logic
Having talked in more detail about what a quantum computer does, it seems like a good time to be specific about why I've been so vague about how a quantum computer does what it does. These are papers about building a simple CNOT using: trapped ions, NV centers in diamonds, weaving anyons, photons.
Chapter 7: The Bloch Sphere
Chapter 6: Quantum Communication
A sci-am article that goes through quantum key distribution.
Chapter 5: Quantum Circuits
Chapter 4: Composite Systems
Chapter 3: Operators
Chapter 2: Measurements
This is a sci-am article about "ghost imaging" (which I failed to do in the second lab) and this is an experimental paper about using ghost imaging to get results from a (modest) photonic quantum computer, without ever passing light through the computer.
Chapter 1: The Quantum State
Quantum phenomena doesn't seem to have any particular scale. Here's a paper about doing the double slit experiment with gargantuan molecules, this one is about maintaining a superposition intact for about half an hour, and this one is about seeing entanglement (which we'll get to) in the physical vibrations of tiny drums.