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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.
Course · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach · 2016
The same course rebuilt as 115 short segments of roughly ten to twenty minutes, each devoted to one idea, so you can watch exactly the concept a chapter needs. Barton Zwiebach is meticulous: every step on the board is justified.
Lecture · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · Sean Carroll · 2020
Sean Carroll tells the story from Planck and Einstein through Bohr, de Broglie and Schrödinger, then argues that the measurement problem is still open and makes his case for the many-worlds interpretation. Notice where the history ends and his interpretation begins.
Lecture · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · Shohini Ghose · 2020
Physicist Shohini Ghose of Wilfrid Laurier University surveys the quantum technologies that grow out of superposition and entanglement, from quantum computers to secure communication. A clear public lecture given at Perimeter Institute in March 2020.
Lecture · Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize · John Clarke · 2025
"From SLUGs to macroscopic quantum phenomena": John Clarke on the 1984–85 Berkeley experiments in which an entire superconducting circuit, big enough to hold in your hand, tunnelled out of a trapped state as a single quantum object.
Lecture · Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize · Michel H. Devoret · 2025
"From macroscopic quantum phenomena to artificial atoms": Michel Devoret on how a circuit's quantized energy levels — measured in the same experiments — became the foundation of today's superconducting qubits.
Lecture · Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize · John M. Martinis · 2025
"Prehistoric Superconducting Qubits": John Martinis, who later led Google's quantum-hardware team, traces the line from the 1980s tunnelling experiments to the superconducting qubit.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Allan Adams · 2013
The opening lecture of MIT's 8.04 Quantum Physics I (Spring 2013), in which Allan Adams uses thought experiments with measuring boxes to build superposition and uncertainty from scratch. Skip the first ten minutes of course logistics, then watch how a few simple box experiments force exactly the rules of this session: repeat a measurement and the answer stays put; measure an incompatible property and it is scrambled.
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.
Explainer · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · Katie Mack · 2023
A short episode from Perimeter Institute's Quantum 101 series with Katie Mack. Watch it alongside Chapter 3.