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Schedule

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Tentative Schedule

Week

Date

Lecture Number

Title

Slides

Readings/Handouts

Homework

1

Tuesday
1/21/2025

1

Photons, what, and how do we know they exist

Lect1-photonInterference2025.pptx

US NQCO:Quantum Networks

US NQCO:Quantum Frontiers

DOE Quantum Roadmap

GrangierSinglePhoton1986

FrankenSemiclassical

alpha-DerivationHandout

Homework 1 (due 1/28/2025)

Homework 1 (solutions)

Thursday

1/23/2025

2

Interference, Massive-particle

Lect2-2025.pptx

DelayedChoiceAspect

C-60Diffraction

 

2

Tuesday
1/28/2025

3

Massive particle,Correlation functions

Lect3-2025.pptx

 

GlauberNobel(p1-3)

GlauberRMP

Homework 2 (due 2/4/2025)

Homework 2 (solutions)

Thursday
1/30/2025

4

Correlation functions, Single-photon sources, Detectors

Lect4-2025.pptx

High-performance semiconductor quantum-dot single-photon sources

On-Demand Single Photons

 

3

Tuesday
2/4/2025

5

HBTwiss, Phase-space description

Lect5-HBT.pptx

SqueezedStateTutorial

Homework 3 (due 2/11/2025)

Homework 3 (solutions)

Thursday
2/6/2025

6

Squeezing

Lect6-Squeezing.pptx

 

WignerTutorialRaymer

BrietenbachNature

 

4

Tuesday
2/11/2025

7

Classic 'quantum interference', BEC

Lect7-PfleegorBECInterference

 

BECInterference

 

Homework 4 (due 2/18/2025)

 

Thursday
2/13/2025

8

SPDC intro

Lect8-SPDCExperimentsHOM.pptx

SPDCInformation

 

5

Tuesday
2/18/2025

9

2-photon interference

Lect9-SPDCExperiments.pptx

MandelRMP

Thursday
2/20/2025

10

Qubits, Bloch sphere, NMR basics

Lect10-FWM-qubits-Rabi.pptx

 

 Homework 5 (due 2/25/2025)

6

Tuesday
2/25/2025

11

Light-atom interactions, Quantum Zeno effect

Lect11-Atomic-Zeno-IFM.pptx

WinelandZeno

SchmidtDecompositionTutorial

 

Thursday
2/27/2025

12

Cavity effects

Lect12Cavity.pptx

 

 

7

Tuesday
3/4/2025

13

Cavity QED, Rabi vs Ramsey fringes

Lect13CavityQED.pptx

HarocheRMP

 

Thursday
3/6/2025

14

QND

Lect14QND.pptx

RempeQND.pdf

MartinisFockNature2008.pdf

 

8

Tuesday
3/11/2025

15

BI experiments

Lect15BellInequalities.pptx

BellInequalityHandout.pdf

Physics.8.123.pdf

 

Thursday
3/13/2025

16

Other tests of nonlocality

Lect15BellInequalities.pptx

Lect16AdvancedNonlocality.pptx

MiciusEntanglement.pdf

NonlocalityBeyondQM.pdf

SuperluminalSignalling.pdf

 

9

Tuesday
3/25/2025

17

Quantum metrology

Lect16AdvancedNonlocality.pptx

 

 

Thursday
3/27/2025

18

Quantum metrology

Lect18QMetrology.pptx

EntangledClocks.pdf

 

10

Tuesday
4/1/2025

19

Quantum dense coding, cryptography

Lect19DenseCodingQKD.pptx 

 

Thursday
4/3/2025

20

Quantum cryptography 

Lect20QKD-teleportation.pptx

QCryptReviewLoLutkenhaus.pdf

QKD-decoy-421km-PRL2018.pdf

MDI-QKD-200km-PRL2014.pdf

 

11

Tuesday
4/8/2025

21

Quantum networking

 

Lect21teleportationNetworking.pptx

TeleportationOverview.pdf

TeleportationFermiLab2020.pdf

QRepeaterOverview.pdf

 

Thursday
4/10/2025

22

Quantum networking, cont.

Lect22QInfoTheory.pptx

 

 

12

Tuesday
4/15/2025

23

Entanglement measures, distillation, Quantum tomography, Quantum gates 

Lect23.pptx

 

Thursday
4/17/2025

24

Quantum algorithms

Lect24QComp.pptx

 

 

13

Tuesday
4/22/2025

25

Q error correction

Lect25ErrorCorrection.pptx

 

 

Thursday
4/24/2025

26

Q error correction, continued/non-circuit model processing

Lect26QCompParadigms.pptx

 

 

14

Tuesday
4/29/2025

27

Project presentations

 

 

 

Thursday
5/3/2025

28

Project presentations

 

 

 

 

15

Tuesday
5/5/2025

29

Project presentations