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Covered class administration and began slides QI2_overview
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Continued going through the slides: QI2_Overview
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Started degenerate perturbation theory (L8DegeneratePerturbationTheory).
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Continued going through slides QI6_Spins_and_photons. Introduced Dirac notation.
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Finished Fine structure (L9Fine_structure)
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Class 1. Admin plus "What is a Spin"
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Went through the first slides in QI6_Spins_and_photons
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Classical information (Bayes thm, Shannon entropy). Started slides on thermodynamics.
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Operator approach to angular momentum. Started addition of angular momentum.
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Went through 2nd half of "What is a Quantum Spin" slides
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Started the WKB approximation (L13WKB_approximation.pdf)
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The Zeeman effect. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021
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Finished class communication theory and started QI6_Spins_and_Photons
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Finished slides QI6_Spins_and_Photons, started slides on Operators
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Finished the set of slides on Operators (covered the rotation operator, Pauli spin matrices, the Schrodinger equation)
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Finished slides L8DegeneratePerturbationTheory and started applications of perturbation theory in atomic physics (fine structure)
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Went through the ``projector method'' for quantum measurement calculations (QI11_Density_Operator)
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Continued our exploration of the WKB method. just started the set of slides L14WKBconnection
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Finished QI4_Thermodynamics_and_information and started QI5_Communications_Theory
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Continued discussing operators. Went through Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and Pauli operators/matrices.
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Finished density operator slides (QI11_Density_Operator) and started the slides on local measurements (QI12_Local_Measurements)
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Studied the WKB approximation for a particle in a potential well (L15WKB_potential_well)
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Cover classical cryptography and started quantum cryptography
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Finished addition of angular momentum. Started L4identical particles.
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