440-2322/01 – Introduction to Quantum Communications and Information Processing (ÚKKZI)
Gurantor department | Department of Telecommunications | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Jan Nedoma, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Jan Nedoma, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory type A |
Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | 2024/2025 |
Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Understand the fundamentals of quantum effects for function of optical components and following applications in quantum communication systems.
Learning outcomes are set so that the students are able to identify and apply the simple tasks in the field of quantum communications and information processing.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Summary
The aim of this subject is to make students acquainted with fundamental physical principles and experimental realizations of modern quantum technology, fundamentals of quantum physics and optics, make easy the understanding between the group and individual behavior of photons and electrons and their consequences for communications and information processing.
Compulsory literature:
S. Betti, G. Demarchis, E. Innone, Coherent Optical Communications Systéme, J. Wiley&Sons, 1995.
G.P.Agrawal, Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, J. Wiley&Sons, 2002.
H.-A. Bachor, T. C. Ralph, A Guide to Experiments in Quantum Optics, J. Wiley&Sons, 2004.
E.Desurvire,Classical and Quantum InformationTheory: An Introduction for the Telecom Scientist, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
N.J.Cerf;G. Leuchs;E.S.Polzik, Quantum Information with Continuous Variables of Atoms and Light, Imperial CollegePress, 2007.
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Successfully passing the test in exercises, handover of protocols from laboratory measurements
E-learning
Other requirements
The condition for the credit obtaining is a handover of all reports from laboratory measurements and successfully managing one test.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
- Fundamental conceptions of quantum notation – particle properties of waves, wave properties of particles, Schrodinger equation,
wave function
- Application of quantum mechanics, photons and electrons
- Statistical description of electron and photon groups
- Bose-Einstein distribution, black body radiation, Planck law of blackbody radiation
- Fermi-Dirac distribution, transitions among energy states, lasers, and masers, description of laser radiation
- Unceirtanty relations, quantum systems, and their fundamental properties
- Basic properties of quantum computers, quantum Turing machine
- Quantum bit (Qubit)- bit vers. Qubit, polarization of photons
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction