Muhammad Hamza Waseem, Faizan-E-Ilahi, Muhammad Sabieh Anwar

Quantum Mechanics in the Single Photon Laboratory (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Quantum mechanics is one of the most counterintuitive, universal and widely applicable physical theories. However, students find difficulty in grasping the fundamentals of quantum physics generally because they hardly encounter practical demonstrations or direct experiments of quantum physics in their coursework. Even though students may come across investigations in modern physics such as with X-rays, radioactivity and spectroscopy, which have quantum underpinnings, truly quantum behaviour is difficult to experience directly.

This book arose from a series of laboratory class experiments developed by the authors and it provides an overview of fundamental experiments that can be used to practically demonstrate the underlying principles of quantum physics and quantum information science. These experiments use the polarization of a single photon as the basic unit of quantum information. Subsequently, the quantum information is measured in an elaborate series of optical experiments. It is designed with multiple readerships in mind. It is valuable for the laboratory developer or the professor who would like to recreate a similar suite of experiments for their students. It is also suitable for a student of physics, who would like to learn how such experiments are conducted and would like to explore experimental verifications of theoretical knowledge. Computer scientists, photonics engineers and electrical engineers who would like to foray into quantum technologies would also find this narrative useful to learn about the terminology, key postulates of quantum physics, the collapse of states on measurement and how quantum computers could be implemented. It is not a lab manual, rather a primer, giving the reader the creative license to build up these experiments bottom-up if they desire and have the resources to do so.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750330633
• Artikelnr.: 59847110

Autorenporträt

Muhammad Hamza Waseem is pursuing a DPhil in condensed matter physics as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. His research revolves around quantum magnonics and hybrid quantum systems. During his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at UET Lahore, Hamza helped develop classical and quantum optics experiments at PhysLab, LUMS, and contributed to research on optical metasurfaces at ITU Lahore.

Faizan-e-Ilahi is currently a graduate student of physics at LUMS. During his undergraduate studies, he helped to build the Single Photon Quantum Mechanics Laboratory at LUMS. He is currently working in magneto-optics. His areas of interest are quantum information and open quantum systems.

Muhammad Sabieh Anwar is an Associate Professor of physics and Dean at the LUMS Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Pakistan. Ideas from his physics instructional laboratories have been replicated in about 10 Pakistani universities. Prior to joining LUMS in 2007, Sabieh was a postdoc in chemistry and materials science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD student, as Rhodes Scholar, at the University of Oxford. He was the recipient of the TWAS medal in physics in 2008 and the National Innovation Prize in 2015.