Instructor:
Oskar Painter, Rm. 266 Watson, x8008.
Place and Time:
TuTh 10:30-11:55AM, 104 Watson.
Course Syllabus:
TAs:
Eunjong Kim (ekim7206 at gmail dot com)
Office Hours:
O. Painter: by appointment.
TA Office Hours: Tu, 4-5PM (or by appointment), Watson 268.
Recitation/Make-up Lecture (as needed): 6-8PM, Wednesday evenings in Watson 104.
Homework and Handouts:
Week 1 (4.2 and 4.4): course overview, intro to input-output formalism
Quantum noise and measurement:
arXiv_Clerk_Schoelkopf_introduction_quantum_noise_measurement_amplification_2010.pdf
Week 2 (4.9 and 4.11): input-output formalism, cont.
HW#1 (pdf)
Input/output theory papers:
PRA_Gardiner_Collett_input_output_theory_1985.pdf
Barnett and Radmore chapters on continuum operators:
Week 3 (4.16 and 4.18): Quantum Master Equation
HW#2 (pdf)
Papers (fun reading):
Hecht_single_photon_detection_with_your_eyes
Book:
Carmichael_Stochastic_methods_QO_volume1
Week 4 (4.23 and 4.25): Quantum Master Equation, cont.
Week 5 (4.30 and 5.2): Quantum Regression Theorem
Papers on Photon Correlations:
Hanbury_Brown_and_Twiss_initial_experiment
Hanbury_Brown_and_Twiss_nature_of_photon_correlations
Week 6 (5.7 and 5.9): Coherent States
HW #3 (pdf)
Papers on optical coherence and the quantum nature of light:
PRL_Glauber_photon_correlations_1962
Phys_Rev_Glauber_quantum_theory_coherence_1963
Nature_Walls_review_evidence_for_quantum_nature_light_1979
Papers on resonance fluoresence:
PRL_Kimble_Mandel_photon_antibunching_resonance_fluorescence_1977
PRA_Mollow_Pure-State_Res_Light_Scatt_1975_p1919_1
PRL_Aspect_Time_Correlations_Mollow_Triplet_1980_p617_1
Week 7 (5.14 and 5.16): Introduction to Superconducting Qubits
Week 8 (5.21 and 5.23): The Transmon Qubit and the Strong Dispersive Limit
HW #4 (pdf)
Papers on Cat Codes and QEC:
Nature_Sun_Devoret_Schoelkopf_tracking_photon_jumps_repeated_parity_measurements
NJP_Mirrahimi_Liang_Schoelkopf_Devoret_dynamically_protected_cat_qubits
Week 9 (5.28 and 5.30): Qubit state read-out and weak measurements
HW #5, final presentation guidelines and suggestions (pdf)
Week 10 (6.4 and 6.6): Presentation Week!
Resources:
RMP_Plenio_Quantum_Monte_Carlo_Methods_1998
Quantum Optics Toolbox (zip file)