PHYS 513 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Tentative Schedule

Week

Date

Lecture Number

Title

Slides

Readings/Handouts

Homework

1

Tuesday
1/26/2021

1

Photons, what, and how do we know they exist

Lect1-photonInterference2021.pptx

US NQCO:Quantum Networks

US NQCO:Quantum Frontiers

DelayedChoiceAspect

GrangierSinglePhoton1986

FrankenSemiclassical

alpha-DerivationHandout

Homework 1 (due 2/2/21, grader: Pei-Wen)

Thursday

1/28/2021

2

Interference, photonic

Lect1-photonInterference2021.pptx  

 

2

Tuesday
2/2/2021

3

Massive-particle interference;

Correlation functions

Lect2-2021.pptx

C-60Diffraction

GlauberNobel(p1-3)

 

Homework 1 (solutions)

Homework 2 (due 2/9/21, grader: Pin-Yi)

Thursday
2/4/2021

4

Correlation functions, g(2), Single-photon sources

Lect3-2021.pptx

GlauberRMP

High-performance semiconductor quantum-dot single-photon sources

On-Demand Single Photons

 

3

Tuesday
2/9/2021

5

Squeezing, part 1

 

SqueezedStateTutorial

WignerTutorialRaymer

BrietenbachNature

Homework 2 (solutions)

Homework 3 (due 2/16/21, grader: Pin-Yi)

Thursday
2/11/2021

6

Squeezing, part 2

Lect5-6-HBT,PhaseSpace,Squeezing.pptx

 

 

4

Tuesday
2/16/2021

7

Classic 'quantum interference', BEC

Lect7-PfleegorBECInterferenceAnnotated

BECInterference

 

 

Homework 3 (solutions)

ResearchProjectDescription2021

Homework 4 (due 2/23/21, grader: Pin-Yi)

Thursday
2/18/2021

8

SPDC intro

Lect8-SPDCExperimentsHOM.pptx

SPDCInformation

 

5

Tuesday
2/23/2021

9

2-photon interference

Lect9-SPDCExperimentsHOM.pptx

MandelRMP

Presentation preference due

Homework 4 (solutions)

Homework 5 (due 3/4/21, grader: Pin-Yi)

Thursday
2/25/2021

10

Qubits, Bloch sphere, NMR basics

Lect10-FWM-qubits-Rabi.pptx

 

 

6

Tuesday
3/2/2021

11

Light-atom interactions, Quantum Zeno effect

Lect11-FWM-qubits-Rabi.pptx

WinelandZeno

SchmidtDecompositionTutorial

 

Paper choices due

Thursday
3/4/2021

12

Cavity effects

Lect12Cavity.pptx

 

Homework 5 (solutions)

Homework 6 (due 3/16/21, grader: Pei-Wen)

7

Tuesday
3/9/2021

13

Cavity QED, Rabi vs Ramsey fringes

Lect13CavityQED.pptx

HarocheRMP

 

Thursday
3/11/2021

14

QND

Lect14QND.pptx

RempeQND.pdf

MartinisFockNature2008.pdf

 

8

Tuesday
3/16/2021

15

Detector overview; BI experiments

Lect15BellInequalities.pptx

BellInequalityHandout.pdf

Physics.8.123.pdf

Homework 6 (solutions)

Homework 7 (due 3/23/21, grader: Pei-Wen)

Thursday
3/18/2021

16

Other tests of nonlocality

Lect16AdvancedNonlocality.pptx

MiciusEntanglement.pdf

NonlocalityBeyondQM.pdf

SuperluminalSignalling.pdf

 

9

Tuesday
3/23/2021

17

Quantum metrology

Lect17QMetrology.pptx

EntangledClocks.pdf

Homework 7 (solutions)

Homework 8 (due 3/30/21, grader: Pin-Yi)

Thursday
3/25/2021

18

Quantum dense coding, teleportation

Lect18DenseCodingTeleportation.pptx  

 

10

Tuesday
3/30/2021

19

Quantum cryptography

Lect19QKDOverview.pptx

QCryptReviewLoLutkenhaus.pdf

QKD-decoy-421km-PRL2018.pdf

Homework 8 (solutions)

Homework 9 (due 4/6/21, grader: Pei-Wen)

Thursday
4/1/2021

20

Quantum cryptography and networking

Lect20QKD-teleportation.pptx

MDI-QKD-200km-PRL2014.pdf

 

11

Tuesday
4/6/2021

21

Entanglement measures

 

Lect21teleportationNetworking.pptx

TeleportationOverview.pdf

TeleportationFermiLab2020.pdf

QRepeaterOverview.pdf

Homework 9 (solutions)

Homework 10 (due 4/15/21, grader: Pin-Yi)

Thursday
4/8/2021

22

Entanglement distillation

Lect22QInfoTheory.pptx

 

 

12

Tuesday
4/13/2021

 

No Class

 

 

 

Thursday
4/15/2021

23

Quantum  networking, continued, tomography,

quantum gates

Lect23QComp.pptx

 

Homework 10 (solutions)

Homework 11 (due 4/22/21, grader: Pei-wen)

13

Tuesday
4/20/2021

24

Q error correction

Lect24ErrorCorrection.pptx

 

 

Thursday
4/22/2021

25

Q error correction, continued

Superconducting Qubit Quantum Processing

 

 

Homework 11 (solutions)

14

Tuesday
4/27/2021

26

Cluster-state and Adiabatic Q. Processing

Trapped-Ion Quantum Processing

Lect26QCompParadigms.pptx

 

 

Thursday
4/29/2021

27

Semiconductor-based Quantum Processing

Quantum Repeaters

 

 

 

15

Tuesday
5/4/2020

28

Neutral atom Quantum Computing

 

 

Research proj. due