Last updated: January 13, 2025

This page makes available publicly the materials for the UNSW and Sydney Quantum Academy (SQA) course ELEC9782 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering 2: Quantum Control from Term 3 2024. The course was developed by Dr Hendra Nurdin and delivered for the first time in Term 3 2021. The materials here are from the fourth iteration of the course. 

The course materials are made available as is under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. Questions, comments and feedback can be sent to: hinmaterials at gmail dot com.  

Course Outline for T3 2024 (pdf)

The course lecture notes and slides can be found below:

Introduction to Quantum Control Systems (slides) 

Lecture 1 Review of Basic Quantum Mechanics (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture 2 Open-Loop Control of Quantum Systems (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture 3a Modern Probability Theory (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture 3b Stochastic Processes (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture 4a Introduction to Filtering Theory (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture 4b Introduction to Optimal Stochastic Control (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture 5 Open Quantum Systems (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture 6 Quantum Measurement Theory (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture 7 Quantum Gaussian States of Single-Mode Oscillators and Free-Travelling Fields (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture 8 Quantum Input-Output Systems (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture9 Introduction to Quantum Filtering Theory (lecture notes, slides)

Lecture 10 Introduction to Quantum Feedback Control (lecture notes, slides)

Review lecture (slides)