Fwd: [QIP-Sem] MIT Quantum Information Processing Course Announcement

[Jeffrey H. Shapiro]

Please not that the course description below has a major typo.

6.453 WILL BE OFFERED Fall 2004

6.453 WILL NOT BE OFFERED FALL 2005.

I apologize for any confusion that I created with this mistake.

Jeff Shapiro

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>6.453 Quantum Optical Communication (Prof. Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Instructor)
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>Prereq: 6.011 and 18.06
>Acad Year 2003-2004:  G(Fall)
>Acad Year 2004-2005:  Not offered
>3-0-9 H-LEVEL Grad Credit
>Lecture::  MW9:30-11, Room 8-404 (NOT 36-112, as shown in the catalog)
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>Quantum optics:  Dirac notation quantum mechanics; harmonic 
>oscillator quantization; number states, coherent states, and 
>squeezed states; radiation field quantization and quantum field 
>propagation; P-representation and classical fields.  Linear loss and 
>linear amplification:  commutator preservation and the Uncertainty 
>Principle; beam splitters; phase-insensitive and phase-sensitive 
>amplifiers.  Quantum photdetection:  direct detection, heterodyne 
>detection, and homodyne detection.  Second-order nonlinear optics: 
>phase-matched interactions; optical parametric amplifiers; 
>generation of squeezed states, photon-twin beams, non-classical 
>fourth-order interference, and polarization entanglement.  Quantum 
>systems theory: optimum binary detection; quantum precision 
>measurements; quantum cryptography; and quantum teleportation.
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>Term Paper required.
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Jeffrey H. Shapiro
Julius A. Stratton Professor
   of Electrical Engineering
Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 36-419
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Phone:  (617) 253-4179
Fax:    (617) 253-1301
email:  jhs at mit.edu
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