Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
1 Hour(s) 35 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Kumaresan Ramanathan
Rating
Course Overview
This course has become part of QC101. Buy this course if you want only the physics lessons without the rest of QC101
THE CONTENTS OF THIS COURSE HAVE BEEN ADDED TO QC101.
Purchase this course if you want only the physics lessons without the rest of QC101.
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This is a follow-on course to QC101. It helps you gain an intuitive and qualitative understanding of basic quantum physics to help you understand more advanced quantum computing courses.
Unlike the earlier QC101 course, this course has very little Math. The aim is to help you understand qualitatively how the physics of quantum mechanics works.
Why do you need a Qualitative Understanding of Quantum Physics?
The Math of quantum physics is different, but it is not complicated. In many ways it is simpler than the engineering calculus that many of you studied in college. Although quantum math is simple, its mathematical simplicity hides many strange, yet important behaviors.
For instance, the mathematical representation of a Bell State is very simple. But the physical implications of a Bell State are weird. A photon has an angle of polarization, a property that is like a direction. But strangely, photons that are entangled in the Bell State behave as though they have no preferred angle or direction.
An intuitive appreciation of such weird behavior will be useful when I present more advanced topics on quantum algorithms in later courses.
To help you understand quantum physics qualitatively, I have provided simulators written in Java. Running the simulators and studying the Java source-code will help you gain a qualitative understanding that goes beyond merely knowing how to do the Math.
How can you get the most from this course?
Unlike the earlier QC101, this course is light on Math. The primary aim of this course is to ensure that you are completely comfortable with the implications of superposition and entanglement. I spend a lot of time reinforcing basic concepts that were already introduced in QC101. Later in the course, I highlight some weird implications of entanglement.
The content is not challenging. But don't stop with viewing the videos. To get the most from this course, I encourage you to run my simulators with your own virtual experiments.
The first 16 lessons can be previewed for free. Watch the free preview lessons and enroll today.
Course Content
- 8 section(s)
- 37 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Polarization of Light
- Section 3 Quantum Behavior of Polarizers
- Section 4 Information in Quantum Systems
- Section 5 Quantum Measurement
- Section 6 Single Particle Systems - Superposition & Measurement
- Section 7 Two Particle Systems - Entanglement & Bell States
- Section 8 Conclusion
What You’ll Learn
- Build a strong foundation in Quantum Physics to help you learn advanced topics in Quantum Computing, Develop an intuitive understanding of Superposition and Entanglement using Simulators
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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JJohn Deters
Instructor did a really good job of presenting the material in a clear and easy to understand manner. All the lecture slides were created with standard format symbols, letters, numbers and diagrams. No sloppy handwritten content which can be very difficult to read and mentally irritating.
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MMadhu Sreedhar
It was a nice intro to the subject. The Instructor did a nice job. He made sure that the concepts are repeated enough during the lecture.
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RRobert Harrison Hunter
This course didn't add much more content to QC101. Sort of a recap of the same concepts from a slightly different angle. Still helpful as a review though.
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ÁÁdám Várhegyi-Milos
Section 7 is the only part holding any new material. The remaining sections are just repetitions of each other, constantly re-iterating and re-wording the same few concepts. Too bad, because I enjoyed the two pre-requisite courses.
