ECE 770 topic 14 - Winter 2015

ECE 770 topic 14 - Quantum Electronics and Photonics

Instructor

A. Hamed Majedi

Lecture Time and Location

Wednesdays 8:30-11:20, EIT 3151.

General Description

Quantum physics provides not only an essential theory to study and control objects in nano and atomic scales but also radical ways to do information processing, sensing, computation and communication. Advances in nanotechnology and quantum information processing raise growing interests in engineering students to learn applied quantum mechanics that is also essential for understanding modern devices and systems in electronics and photonics.

This course offers a composition of topics usually covered in more conventional courses such as quantum electronics and quantum optics to invite a wide range of audiences who are working on areas such as engineering electromagnetics, solid state electronics, nanotechnology, applied quantum optics and quantum devices for classical and quantum information processing.

The course is introductory and emphasizes on the fundamental concepts and engineering applications without a previous exposure to quantum mechanics. Examples and problems are designed to address the applications of the course contents to real problems in electronic, optoelectronic, photonic and superconductive devices.

General Course Contents

  1. Quantum Physics
  2. The Schrodinger Equation
  3. Electrons in Quantum Confined Structures (quantum well, wire, dot and superlattice)
  4. Axiomatic Structure of Quantum Mechanics
  5. Quantum Dynamics
  6. Electrons in Electromagnetic Field
  7. Angular Momentum and Spin
  8. Quantum Statistics
  9. Review of Classical Electrodynamics
  10. Electromagnetic (EM) Field Quantization
  11. Quantum States of EM Field
  12. Electron/Photon & Atom-EM Field Interaction
  13. Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
  14. Quantum Information Processing

Text

  1. Course notes and slides.

Some References

  1. D.J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995.
  2. H. Kroemer, Quantum Mechanics for Engineering, Material Science and Applied Physics, Prentice Hall, 1994.
  3. A.F.J. Levi, Applied Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed., Cambridge, 2006.
  4. W. Greiner, Quantum Mechanics An Introduction, 4th ed., Springer, 2001.
  5. Ph. Martin, F. Rothen, Many-Body Problems and Quantum Field Theory, 2nd edition, Springer, 2004.
  6. C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, F. Lalole, Quantum Mechanics, JW, 1971.
  7. W. H. Louisell, Quantum Statistical Properties of Radiation, Wiley, 1973.
  8. U. Leonhardt, Measuring Quantum State of Light, Cambridge, 1997.
  9. H.A. Bacher, T.C. Ralph, A Guide to Experiments in Quantum Optics, 2nd Edition, Wiley-VCH, 2003.
  10. M. Fox, Quantum Optics, An Introduction, Oxford, 2005.
  11. J.C. Garrison, R.Y. Chiao, Quantum Optics, Oxford, 2008.
  12. D. Marcuse, Principles of Quantum Electronics, AP, 1980.
  13. S. Datta, Quantum Transport, Atom to Transistor, Cambridge, 2005.
  14. H. Bruus, K. Flensberg, Many-Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics, Oxford, 2004.

Grading Policy

50% Assignments/mini-project, 50% Final Exam