Quantum Optics 2 0800-OPTKW2

1) Introduction: Single photon physics.
2) Quantum information encoding in a single photon polarization state.
3) Quantum communication protocols exploiting polarization states. Practical implementation: quantum key distribution.
4) Single photon spatial mode and the methods of quantum states encoding.
5) Multilevel quantum states -- generation and detection. Majorana representation.
6) Practical implementations of quantum information processing based on spatial mode encoding.
7) Parametric down conversion process -- quantum description and experimental methods.
8) single photon detection
9) Phase space adn Wigner function

Total student workload

90h (30h lecture + 30h classes + 30h self-studying and problem solving)

Learning outcomes - knowledge

The graduate has basic knowledge of physics corresponding to the second cycle programme level as well as advanced knowledge of a selected area of physics. (X2A_W01)

Learning outcomes - skills

The graduate is able to find relevant information in specialist literature, both in databases and other sources and is able to reconstruct the reasoning or the stages of an experiment described in specialist literature, taking into account the assumptions and approximations made. X2A_U03 The graduate is able to adapt knowledge and methodology of physics as well as theoretical and experimental methods to related branches of science. X2A_U04

Learning outcomes - social competencies

The graduate knows the level of his or her knowledge and skills and is able to formulate questions adequately. The graduate understands the need for further education. (X2A_K01,X2A_K05)

Teaching methods

Lecture and classes.

Expository teaching methods

- participatory lecture
- informative (conventional) lecture

Exploratory teaching methods

- practical

Prerequisites

Basics of quantum mechanics: 1) Schrodinger equation, 2) operator algebra -- unitary transformations, creation and annihilation operators 3) tensor algebra. 4) second quantization of electromagnetic field.

Course coordinators

Piotr Kolenderski

Assessment criteria

Case studies and problem solving.
Final examination - oral.

Practical placement

none

Bibliography

- M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum computation and quantum information, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006.
- D. Bruss, G. Leuchs, Lectures on Quantum Information, Wiley, 2007
- publications introduced during lectures

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