Quantum mechanics in the single photon laboratory / Muhammad Hamza Waseem, , and Muhammad Sabieh Anwar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waseem, Muhammad Hamza, author.

Faizan-e-Ilahi, author.

Anwar, Muhammad Sabieh, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP ebooks. 2020 collection.

IOP ebooks. [2020 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

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 ten Pakistani universities. Prior to joining LUMS in 2007, Sabieh was a postdoc in chemistry and materials science at University of California, Berkeley and a PhD student, as Rhodes Scholar, at the Oxford University. He is the recipient of the TWAS medal in physics in 2008 and the National Innovation Prize in 2015.

Summary:

Arising from a series of laboratory class experiments developed by the authors this book provides an overview of fundamental experiments that can be used to practically demonstrate the underlying principles of quantum physics and quantum information science. Designed with multiple readerships in mind, it will be essential for the professor who would like to recreate a similar suite of experiments for their students and students of physics, who would like to learn how such experiments are actually conducted. 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.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Classical nature of light

2.1. Electromagnetic waves

2.2. Polarization

2.3. Experimental explorations

3. Quantum nature of light

3.1. Quantum mechanical states

3.2. Qubits

3.3. Transforming quantum states

3.4. Measuring quantum states

3.5. Composite systems and entangled states

3.6. Mixed states and the density matrix

3.7. Photon statistics

4. Experiments related to the quantum nature of light

4.1. General components of the lab

4.2. Q1 : Spontaneous parametric downconversion

4.3. Q2 : proof of existence of photons

4.4. Q3 : Estimating the polarization state of single photons

4.5. Q4 : Visualizing the polarization state of single photons

4.6. Q5 : Single-photon interference and quantum eraser

5. Experiments related to entanglement and nonlocality

5.1. Entanglement and local realism

5.2. The proverbial Alice and Bob experiment

5.3. Generating polarization-entangled photons

5.4. NL1 : Freedman's test of local realism

5.5. NL2 : Hardy's test of local realism

5.6. NL3 : CHSH test of local realism

6. Quantum state tomography

6.1. Qubits, Stokes parameters and tomography

6.2. Single-qubit tomography

6.3. Two-qubit tomography

6.4. Nonideal measurements and compensation of errors

6.5. Maximum likelihood estimation

6.6. The experiment

7. Conclusion.

Notes:

"Version: 20200701"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 4, 2020).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750330626

0750330627

9780750330633

0750330635

OCLC:

1182503053