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Course · Caltech
John Preskill · 2021
The graduate course from the physicist who coined the terms "quantum supremacy" and "NISQ": density operators, measurement, channels, Bell inequalities, teleportation, circuits, Shor's factoring, Grover's search and quantum simulation. Advanced, and worth every minute.
Course · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Allan Adams · 2013
Allan Adams' celebrated course starts from superposition and the experimental facts, builds the wavefunction, operators and the Schrödinger equation, then tours scattering, hydrogen, identical particles and band structure before closing on entanglement and Bell's theorem. Calculus and a little linear algebra are enough to keep up.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Allan Adams · 2013
A full MIT 8.04 lecture by Allan Adams. The first part previews quantum computing (the no-cloning theorem, met briefly in Part 5 and fully in Chapter 24, and the Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm of Chapter 23); the last part is devoted to the EPR experiment and Bell's inequality, the ideal bridge from this chapter to the next. Best watched after the lesson.
Lecture · Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize · Serge Haroche & David J. Wineland · 2012
Serge Haroche on trapping photons in a box to watch the quantum-to-classical boundary — decoherence — in action, then David Wineland on superposition and entanglement with trapped ions. The experiments that turned thought experiments into laboratory routine.
Lecture · Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize · Alain Aspect · 2022
"From Einstein's doubts to quantum technologies": Alain Aspect on his Orsay experiments of the early 1980s, which tested Bell's inequality with fast-switching polarizers, and on how entanglement went from philosophical puzzle to technological resource.
Lecture · Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize · John F. Clauser · 2022
"Experimental proof that nonlocal quantum entanglement is real": John Clauser on the 1972 Freedman–Clauser experiment at Berkeley, the first experimental test of a Bell inequality, and what it took to build it.
Lecture · Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize · Anton Zeilinger · 2022
"A Voyage through Quantum Wonderland": Anton Zeilinger on quantum teleportation, entanglement swapping and loophole-free Bell tests, told by the physicist whose group performed many of those experiments.
Panel · World Science Festival
World Science Festival · Brian Greene with David Z. Albert, Sean Carroll, Sheldon Goldstein and Ruediger Schack · 2014
Physicists and philosophers of physics argue about what a measurement really is — Bohmian mechanics, many worlds and QBism side by side — with Brian Greene keeping score. Ideal companion to Chapter 22: every position is an interpretation, and all of them agree with experiment.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach
Zwiebach contrasts classical superposition of fields with the quantum kind using single photons in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, then states the rule this section builds on: measure a property on αA + βB and you never get anything in between, only a or b, with odds set by |α|² and |β|², after which the state is the one you found. When he says a photon is 'in both beams at the same time', translate it into this section's language (one definite state written as a sum of two path states), and catch his point at about 7:30 that the same vector can be written as a sum in many different ways.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach
Starts at 7:55, where Zwiebach states the measurement postulate as this section does: the result is always an eigenvalue, its probability is |αᵢ|², the squared overlap with the eigenstate, and the state collapses to that eigenstate, so an immediate repeat gives the same value; rewind to the beginning to see how any state is expanded in eigenfunctions and why the |αᵢ|² add up to 1. Stay for 15:10, where he calls it 'a very strange postulate' that splits quantum mechanics into the realm of the Schrödinger equation and the realm of measurement, a preview of section 6.