TCM315 Fall 2022: Open Quantum Systems

Course Description

The course aims at providing basic mathematical and theoretical concepts needed in concrete Quantum Technology applications. The applications in view are those related to concrete experiments performed or ongoing in Aalto laboratories.

Contents

• Stochastic thermodynamics and thermometry
• GKSL master equation
• Quantum trajectories

Requirements

part I Some very basic understanding of probability is needed. Pre-knowledge of elementary quantum mechanics is recommended.

Literature

General reference textbooks for the course are

1. Wiseman, H. M. & Milburn, G. J.: Quantum Measurement and Control Cambridge University Press, 2009.
2. Breuer, H.-P., Petruccione, F.:  The Theory of Open Quantum Systems , Oxford University Press, 2002.
3. Jacobs, K.: Quantum Measurement Theory and its Applications Cambridge University Press, 2014.
4. Barchielli, A. & Gregoratti, M.: Quantum Trajectories and Measurements in Continuous Time, Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2009
5. Peliti, L. & Pigolotti, S. Stochastic Thermodynamics: a gentle introduction, Princeton University Press 2021.

An alternative source for Open Quantum System are the on-line lectures created by Daria Anttila, Guillermo García-Pérez, Matteo Rossi, Boris Sokolov  and based on a previous publication by Guillermo García-Pérez, Matteo A. C. Rossi, Sabrina Maniscalco. The project uses IBM Q Experience platform for simulating open quantum systems.

"Electron Interference", a scientific movie shot in 1976 which tells about the single electron interference experiment (the most beautiful in physics, according to a poll of the Physics World Journal in 2002). This experiment was performed for the first time in 1974.

Timetable

The streaming link to the lecture will appear about 15 min before the lecture. For technical reasons link the for the first lecture maybe posted here at very last

Exercises

Link to MOODLE space