Short Course Description
The goal of this course is to acquaint graduate students of Electrical Enginering with the concepts of quantum theory with emphasis on quantum foundations and quantum optics. It is assumed that the students have been exposed to some quantum mechanics in the framework of a preliminary undergraduate course, but the most important prerequisite is knowledge of linear algebra. Subjects that are discussed in the course include, an operator based description of the simple harmonic operator and its properties, the density matrix, time evolution, photon-atom interaction, quantization of the electromagnetic field and the concept of a photon, classical versus quantum states of light, interferometry, the Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment and set-up, entanglement and the EPR paradox, Bell's inequality, measures of entanglement, the homodyne and heterodyne receivers.
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