Dr. John C. Howell Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester
Tutorials in quantum information and quantum optics
This is a list of tutorials of various topics in quantum optics and quantum information. It should be noted at the outset that none of these tutorials are published. They are simply writeups that I have made for teaching a quantum optics course or for my own personal benefit. There are occasional mistakes and typos. Also, they are not properly referenced and since few of these are based on my own research (some of them are based on our group's research), I do not take credit for the bulk of the work. However, they may be beneficial to a newcomer in quantum information or quantum optics as they fill in details that are often left out of papers because of length considerations or are written in terms of my personal way of understanding something. If you find errors or find these useful, let me know. There are several more I can post, if they are beneficial.
John Howell
Quantum Fields
Tutorial: Introduction to electromagnetic field operators
Tutorial: Coherent States and the Displacement Operator
Tutorial: Squeezed Vacuum
Devices and their behavior
Tutorial: Beamsplitters, single photon inputs to a beam splitter and Mach-Zehnder interferometer, density matrix formalism and which-path information and interference.
Discrete Entanglement
Tutorial: Bell's inequalities
Tutorial: Single particle commutation relations, rotational invariance of entangled states
Tutorial: Peres separability criterion
Tutorial: Quantum Cloning
Continuous Entanglement
Tutorial: Introduction to continuous EPR entanglement
Tutorial: Continuous variable separability criterion
Tutorial: Franson interferometer used to measure two-photon temporal coherence length in downconversion
Tutorial: Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer