PHYS 513 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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Tentative Schedule
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Week |
Date |
Lecture Number |
Title |
Slides |
Readings/Handouts |
Homework |
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1 |
Tuesday |
0 |
Raising/Lowering practice, and Detectors! |
Lect0-photonInterference2026.pptx |
DOE Quantum Roadmap |
Homework 1 (due 9/1/2026) |
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Thursday 8/27/2026 |
1 |
Photons, what, and how do we know they exist |
Lect1-photonInterference2025.pptx |
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2 |
Tuesday |
2 |
Interference, Massive-particle |
Lect2-2025.pptx |
Homework 2 (due 9/8/2026)
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Thursday |
3 |
Massive particle,Correlation functions |
Lect3-2025.pptx | |||
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3 |
Tuesday |
4 |
Correlation functions, Single-photon sources |
Lect4-2025.pptx |
High-performance semiconductor quantum-dot single-photon sources |
Homework 3 (due 9/15/2026)
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Thursday |
5 |
HBTwiss, Phase-space description |
Lect5-HBT.pptx |
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4 |
Tuesday |
6 |
Squeezing |
Lect6-Squeezing.pptx |
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Thursday |
7 |
Classic 'quantum interference', BEC |
Lect7-PfleegorBECInterference | BECInterference |
Homework 4 (solutions) |
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5 |
Tuesday |
8 |
SPDC intro |
Lect8-SPDCExperimentsHOM.pptx | SPDCInformation | |
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Thursday |
9 |
2-photon interference |
Lect9-10-SPDCExperiments.pptx |
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6 |
Tuesday |
10 |
Qubits, Bloch sphere, NMR basics |
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Homework 5 (solutions)solutions) |
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Thursday |
11 |
Light-atom interactions, Quantum Zeno effect |
Lect11-Two-levelSystems.pptx |
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7 |
Tuesday |
12 |
Cavity effects |
Lect12Cavity.pptx | ||
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Thursday |
13 |
Cavity QED, Rabi vs Ramsey fringes |
Lect13CavityQED.pptx |
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8 |
Tuesday |
14 |
QND |
Lect14QND.pptx |
Homework 6 (solutions)solutions) |
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Thursday |
15 |
BI experiments |
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9 |
Tuesday |
16 |
Other tests of nonlocality |
Lect16AdvancedNonlocality.pptx | ||
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Thursday |
17 |
Quantum metrology |
Lect17-2025.pptx |
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10 |
Tuesday |
18 |
Quantum metrology |
Lect18QMetrology.pptx | EntangledClocks.pdf |
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Thursday |
19 |
Quantum dense coding, cryptography |
Lect19QMetrology-2.pptx |
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11 |
Tuesday |
20 |
Quantum cryptography |
Lect20QKD.pptx |
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Thursday |
21 |
Quantum networking |
Lect21QKD-2.pptx | |||
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12 |
Tuesday |
22 |
Quantum networking, cont.; entanglement measures, distillation | Lect22QInfoTheory.pptx |
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Thursday |
23 |
Quantum tomography, Quantum gates |
Lect23.pptx | |||
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13 |
Tuesday |
24 |
Quantum algorithms |
Lect24QComp.pptx |
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Thursday |
25 |
Q error correction |
Lect25ErrorCorrection.pptx |
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Homework 11 (due 5/1/2025) |
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14 |
Tuesday |
26 |
Q error correction, continued/non-circuit model processing |
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Thursday |
27 |
Project presentations: Trapped-ion Q. Processors Neutral atom Q. Processors |
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15 |
Tuesday |
28 |
Project presentations: Semiconductor Q. Processors Superconductor Q. Processors Project presentations: |
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