Quantum Physics for Non-Physicists (Fall 2020)
Quantum Physics for Non-Physicists is a semester course given by Lídia del Rio at ETH Zurich. This page is dedicated to the Fall 2020 edition of the course; tutorials were given by Nuriya Nurgalieva.
Lectures: [YouTube playlist] [Script]
Tutorials: [YouTube playlist]
Exercise sheets and solutions:
| Sheet 1: practicing Dirac notation, a particle in a box, Bloch sphere | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 2: controlled gates, gates in trapped ions, Mach-Zehnder interferometer | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 3: unitary and Hermitian operators, Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 4: wave function in 3D, parity operator, Gaussian wave packets, entanglement and teleportation | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 5: interaction Hamiltonian, a non-local GHZ game | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 6: evolution of Gaussian wave packets, group and phase velocity, measuring the double slit | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 7: a particle in a finite well, stationary phase approximation | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 8: stationary states and state evolution, properties of trace, partial trace | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 9: density matrices on the Bloch sphere, distinguishing the states | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 10: a weak measurement, measuring parity, a system and a battery | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 11: composability of thermal states, energy and temperature | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 12: erasing a qubit with a battery and a heat bath | [Problems] | [Solutions] [Wolfram Mathematica: battery in qubit erasure] |
| Sheet 13: uncertainty relation, spin-1, harmonic oscillator | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
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