Schedule and materials
Lecture times and locations
- Tuesdays 12:15-14:00, lecture hall U3 (Otakaari 1)
- Fridays 10:15-12:00, lecture hall U1 (Otakaari 1)
Lecture materials
Abbreviations used for textbooks (e.g., UPX = Xth chapter of University Physics):
- UP = Young, Freedman, University Physics (13th Edition), Pearson.
- QC = Nielsen, Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition, Cambridge University Press.
- MP = Harris, Modern Physics, Second Edition, Pearson.
- FL = Feynman, Leighton, Sands, Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume 3. (link)
- QS = Qiskit community, Learn Quantum Computation using Qiskit. (link)
- QO = Fox, Quantum Optics, An Introduction, Oxford University Press.
The lecture slides will be published on this page weekly.
Schedule, topics of lectures and materials
| date | lecture topic | materials |
|---|---|---|
| 10.9. |
Overview of quantum technologies, organisation of the course |
slides |
| 13.9. |
Lecture by Prof. Ilkka Tittonen (vice director of the BSc program) |
slides |
| 17.9. |
Motion in 1d, differentiation and integration |
slides, UP2 |
| 20.9. |
Motion in 2d and 3d, vectors |
slides, UP3 |
| 24.9. |
Newton's laws of motion |
slides, UP4-5 |
| 27.9. |
Work, kinetic energy, potential energy and energy conservation, partial derivative |
slides, UP6-7 |
| 1.10. |
Momentum, impulse, and collisions |
slides, UP8 |
| 4.10. |
Rotation of rigid bodies, matrices |
slides, UP9 |
| 8.10. |
Dynamics of rotational motion |
slides, UP10 |
| 11.10. |
Periodic motion, differential equations |
slides, code, UP14 |
| 15.10. |
Mechanical waves, wave equation, partial differential equations |
slides, UP15 |
| 18.10. |
Recap lecture |
slides |
| 25.10. |
1st midterm exam (09:00 - 12:00, room U358, Otakaari 1) |
problems, solutions |
| 29.10. |
Brief history of quantum physics, basic quantum phenomena and experiments |
slides, MP1, MP3 |
| 1.11. |
Lecture by Prof. Mikko Möttönen (director of the BSc program) |
slides |
| 5.11. |
Quantum math: complex numbers, Hilbert spaces, Dirac notation, tensor product, eigenvectors and -values |
slides, QC2.1 |
| 8.11. |
Quantum postulates: states, superposition, operations, observables, measurements, time-evolution |
slides, QC2.2 |
| 12.11. |
Quantum particles, interference, coherence, double slit experiment, the uncertainty principle |
slides, MP4, FL1-3 |
| 15.11. |
Qubits, entanglement, Bell's theorem, decoherence |
slides, QC1.2, QC2.6 |
| 19.11. |
Quantum computing and algorithms, part 1 |
slides, QC1.3-4, QC4 |
| 22.11. |
Quantum computing and algorithms, part 2 NOTE: Lecture in room AS5, Maarintie 8 |
slides, QS |
| 26.11. |
Quantum many-body systems, adiabatic quantum computing, numerical simulation |
slides |
| 29.11. |
Quantum optics, photon entanglement, applications |
slides, QO |
| 3.12. |
Quantum communication, encryption and security | slides |
| 6.12. |
Finnish independence day, NO LECTURE |
|
| 10.12. |
Recap lecture |
slides |
| 13.12. |
2nd midterm exam (09:00 - 12:00, room U1, Otakaari 1) |
problems, solutions |
- FilePendulum simulation Fileapplication/x-ipynb+json
This is a simple Jupyter Notebook file written in Python, which simulates the time-development of the angle variable for a pendulum, without the small angle approximation.