Quantum Physics for Non-Physicists (Fall 2021)
Quantum Physics for Non-Physicists is a semester course given by Lídia del Rio at ETH Zurich. This page is dedicated to the Fall 2021 edition of the course; tutorials were given by Lidia Stocker and Nuriya Nurgalieva.
Lectures: [YouTube playlist] [Script]
Tutorials: [YouTube playlist]
Exercise sheets and solutions (updated on the course of the semester):
| Sheet 1: practicing Dirac notation, Bloch sphere | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 2: controlled gates, Mach-Zehnder interferometer | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 3: unitary and Hermitian operators, tensor product, Elitzur-Vaidman bomb test | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 4: harmonic oscillator, time evolution, rotating a spin | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 5: a particle in a box, position operator in momentum basis | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 6: evolution of position variance, Gaussian wave packets | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 7: evolution of Gaussian wave packets, wave function in 3D | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 8: interaction Hamiltonian, direct and indirect measurements | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 9: Mach-Zender interferometer with a variable path length, simple crystallography experiment | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 10: the flow of probability | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 11: spin operators and Clebsh-Gordon coefficients, spin 1/2, spin 1 | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 12: projectors and orthogonal Hilbert spaces, direct sum, angular momentum in spherical coordinates, spherical harmonics | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 13: radial function in central potentials, properties of trace and partial trace, distinguishing mixed states | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
| Sheet 14: jointly measurable commuting observables, uncertainty relation, depolarizing channel | [Problems] | [Solutions] |
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