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UE Quantum engineering

Code de l'ECUE : RMUSP20

Ce cours donne droit à 3.0 ECTS.
EUR SPECTRUM
Génie électrique, électronique, photonique et systèmes
Campus Valrose
Master 1 , Master 2 , Doctorat
Semestre impair
Anglais

PRESENTATION

New quantum technologies are at the hearth of ambitious research program, with important funding from governments and private actors. In view of future commercial realizations, a very practical question arises: how do we implement operational quantum devices? After a brief overview of quantum technologies and their applications, this course aims at answering this question. It will present the technical difficulties related to the realization of some key quantum systems as well as current proposed solutions, either already existing or under development.

The implementation of quantum devices requires a broad spectrum of skills at the interface between physics and engineering (electronics, materials science, superconductors, signal processing...). The course will emphasize in particular the cross-disciplinary skills that are in great demand in the quantum industry, but which can also be applied to a wide variety of non-quantum problems and thus have a very wide range of applications.

During this course, in parallel to the lectures, concrete cases will be studied by the students (articles, online demonstrators, etc.) and a visit to a laboratory may be scheduled.

No previous knowledge of quantum physics will be requested. The fundamentals of quantum technologies will be presented in an accessible way to science students through a mix of lectures and tutorials. The course will focus in particular on their practical interest in very different disciplines (chemistry, computer science, biology, electronics, physics ...).

It should be noted that a second course entitled “Quantum Technologies” is also available during the next semester and focusing on the fundamental concepts of quantum physics and quantum technologies.

Classroom number for the entire fall semester :

  •     Valrose Campus,
  •     Room M23.

Responsable(s) du cours

Virginia D'Auria

Présentiel

  • 12h de cours magistral

Distanciel

  • 12h de cours magistral

PREREQUIS

Avant le début du cours, je dois ...

OBJECTIFS

A la fin de ce cours, je devrais être capable de...
  • Understand how some main quantum technologies are implemented. Based on his/her personal background, understand what classical technologies are needed to implement them and how, viceversa, his/her discipline stimulates or enables the development of quantum technologies.

CONTENU

  • 8 classes: 5 of lectures, 2 of case study discussions, 1 oral presentation from the students.

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    En présentiel : cours

    • Single photon sources and detectors
    • Superconducting Qbit
    • Integrated circuits

  • En présentiel : cours

    • Cleanroom
    • semiconductor processing

  • En présentiel : cours, exposés, etc.

    • Advanced Photonic circuits
    • Circuits based on supercondcuting Qbits

  • En présentiel : cours, exposés, etc.

    • Classical Interferometry
    • Correlation Functions
    • The Hong–Ou–Mandel Dip
    • The Franson Interferometer
    • Double-Crystal Experiments and Induced Coherence

  • En présentiel : cours, exposés, etc.

    • Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography
    • Mimicking Quantum OCT with Classical Light
    • Quantum Lithography and NOON States
    • Phase Measurements and Fundamental Measurement Limits
    • Additional Applications in Metrology

  • En présentiel : cours, exposés, etc.

    Cold atoms: what and what for?

    • Basics of light-atom interaction
    • Radiation pressure, Zeeman slower
    • Doppler cooling, magneto-optical trap
    • Subdoppler cooling, density limitation, imaging
    • Cold-atom experiments in practice

     

     Conservative traps and cooling to quantum degeneracy

    • Ion traps
    • Conservative traps for neutral atoms
    • Evaporative cooling
    • Bose-Einstein condensation
    • Modern topics with quantum gases

  • En présentiel : cours, exposés, etc.

    • Quantum metrology: atomic clocks, inertial sensors, other sensors
    • Quantum communication: quantum memories
    • Quantum simulation: with Rydberg atoms, with ions
    • Quantum computation: with Rydberg atoms, with ions

    Tour of the cold-atom labs at INPHYNI

  • En présentiel : Evaluation: students’ presentation on a given case study

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