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Vision for Quantum Information Processing Quantum Mechanical pre-requisites Two-level atom light coupling Many qubit states and Entanglement Quantum Gates Physical Realization Controlling atoms with light Trapping atoms Rydberg-atom gates
From http://cam.qubit.org/
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Steps in the signal show that only one atom is in the trap http://www.iota.u-psud.fr/~grangier/Quantum_optics.html
Exponential scaling gives quantum computers enormous power Scalar products Eigenvalues and vectors of matrices Hermitian and Unitary matrices Pauli matrices Density matrices Projection operators Tensor products
Bloch sphere
Quantum Gates
The CNOT as a universal quantum gate
C T C T Control 0 do nothing Control 1 NOT target C T
Physical Realization
Possible architecture of a quantum computer
DiVincenzos 5 criteria
Experimental geometry
Atom-light interactions
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Trapping atoms
Atoms can be trapped at the focus of a far-detuned laser beam A FORT utilizes the conservative dipole force
Rydberg-atom gates
Rydberg atoms have huge dipole moments
Rydberg blockade the presence of Rydberg atom prevents the excitation of another in the vicinity.
Understanding the link between the visibility of the fringes and the which-path information, and being able to describe this in terms of complementarity
Practice
There are three resources for practice questions for you to test your understanding
Change of syllabus
There has been a change of syllabus in the last 4 years. Many topics covered in past exam papers are now not covered. These include Details of extended cavity diode lasers Sideband transitions Lamb-Dicke parameter Ion traps Quantum Eraser