"Quantum Optics 1, Single photons", allowed learners to be introduced to the basic principles of light quantization, and to the standard formalism of Quantum Optics. All the examples were taken in single photons phenomena, including applications to quantum technologies. In the same spirit, "Quantum Optics 2, Two photons and more", will allow learners to use the Quantum Optics formalism to describe entangled photon, a unique feature at the root of the second quantum revolution and its applications to quantum technologies. Learners will also discover how the Quantum Optics formalism allows one to describe classical light, either coherent such as laser light, or incoherent such as thermal radiation. Using a many photons description, it is possible to derive the so-called Standard Quantum Limit (SQL), which applies to classical light, and to understand how new kinds of quantum states of light, such as squeezed states of light, allow one to beat the SQL, one of the achievements of quantum metrology. Several examples of Quantum Technologies based on entangled photons will be presented, firstly in quantum communication, in particular Quantum Teleportation and Quantum Cryptography. Quantum Computing and Quantum Simulation will also be presented, including some insights into the recently proposed Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computing, which raises a serious hope to demonstrate, in a near future, the actively searched quantum advantage, ie, the possibility to effect calculations exponentially faster than with classical computers.
5.0 Introduction
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DP
Dec 28, 2019
Great course - follows the first course for the first three lessons, then makes a detour into Bell's inequalities / quantum teleportation where I found the formalism more challenging.
BB
Nov 03, 2019
The course content is excellent as are the video presentations and quiz questions and, above all, the explanations of concepts.
The second quantum revolution is not only conceptual, with the understanding of the extraordinary character of entanglemnt, but it also promises to be technological, with applications impossible to conceive before realizing the potential of entanglement. Entanglement based quantum cryptography and the fascinating concept of quantum teleportation are the quantum technologies at the root of quantum networks, the so-called quantum internet, and in this lesson you will understand in detail their principles. In order to build a long distance quantum network, one needs good quantum memories, a very important challenge at the moment. You will also find in this lesson, with less details, the basic idea of quantum simulators, which was introduced by Feynman in 1982, but which came of age only in the recent years. It offers, in 2019, the fascinating perspective not only to elucidate physics phenomena too hard to be solved on a classical computer, such as High Critical Temperature Superconduction, but also to solve hard practical optimization problems, thanks to the concept of NISQ (Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum) simulators, which do not need to be perfect.
教學方
Alain Aspect
Professor
Michel Brune
Professor