Professor: Seth Cottrell
Class: PHYS 2609-D202
Lectures: T/Th 10:00-11:40, Namm 618
Webpage: this one
Grading: HW 30%, Midterms (x2) 40%, Final 30%
Things you need: the book, the syllabus, and a notational cheat sheet.
The Midterm is on Thursday 10/16 in class.
This and this are midterms from previous classes. Ignore the questions about "density matrices"; we haven't gotten to that yet.
Chapter 1: The Quantum States
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.
Chapter 2: Measurements
A beautiful popular-science article about how weird measurements can be.
Chapter 3: Operators
Chapter 4: Composite Systems
Chapter 5: Quantum Circuits
Chapter 6: Quantum Communication
Chapter 7: The Bloch Sphere
Chapter 8: Quantum Logic
Chapter 9: Quantum Algorithms
Papers about how Grover is "natural" in physical systems and even how plants seem to use it for efficient light gathering.
Chapter 10: Density Matrices I
Chapter 11: Density Matrices II
Chapter 12: Entanglement
The paper about doing the over-the-top Aspect experiment using quasars to generate random measurement bases. These are about macroscopic-scale entanglement in physical vibrations and entanglement in time. And finally a weird paper that argues, using the indeterminacy of entangled states, that if you have free will to choose a test to do, then a quantum system has exactly as much free will to choose the result.