General Information

Instructor: Hideo Mabuchi and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Class Time: Tue & Thu, 11:00 am ~ 12:15 pm

Location: McCullough 122

Abstract:

Overview of physical qubit encodings in atomic and semiconductor systems; principles of magnetic resonance including double-resonance techniques; decoherence, refocusing and decoupling of spin qubits. Spontaneous emission as a quantum stochastic process; the dressed-state picture and Optical Bloch Equations for atoms interacting with light; introduction to cavity QED and to simple laser cooling. Basic physics of quantum information processing with trapped ions; input-output properties of cavity QED systems; single-photon generation. Quantum dot excitons and semiconductor cavity QED; coherent Raman scattering; all-optical control of electron spin states. Entanglement distribution, purification and swapping; quantum well excitons, cavity polaritons and BEC quantum computation. Cold collisions of gas-phase atoms, optical lattices, and atomic cluster-state generation.

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News:

No class: Tuesday, April 28th
Make up class: Friday, May 1st at 3pm (McCullough 122)
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