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Quantum computing is a technology that promises to offer significant advantages during the coming decades. Though the technology is still in a prototype stage, the last few years have seen many of these prototype devices become accessible…

Contribution: In this study, an alternative educational approach for introducing quantum computing to a wider audience is highlighted. The proposed methodology considers quantum computing as a generalized probability theory rather than a…

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Quantum technology has been rapidly growing due to its potential revolutionary applications. In particular, superconducting qubits provide a strong light-matter interaction as required for quantum computation and in principle can be scaled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Mahdi Naghiloo

In almost all quantum applications, one of the key steps is to verify that the fidelity of the prepared quantum state meets expectations. In this Letter, we propose a new approach solving this problem using machine-learning techniques.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Xiaoqian Zhang , Maolin Luo , Zhaodi Wen , Qin Feng , Shengshi Pang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaoqi Zhou

We report on a large-scale study of student learning of quantum tunneling in 4 traditional and 4 transformed modern physics courses. In the transformed courses, which were designed to address student difficulties found in previous research,…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-04-14 S. B. McKagan , K. K. Perkins , C. E. Wieman

Machine Learning (ML) has been widely applied across numerous domains due to its ability to automatically identify informative patterns from data for various tasks. The availability of large-scale data and advanced computational power…

Quantum machine learning (QML) is rapidly transitioning from theoretical promise to practical relevance across data-intensive scientific domains. In this Review, we provide a structured overview of recent advances that bridge foundational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Vinit Singh , Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Mandeep Kaur Saggi , Manas Sajjan , Sabre Kais

Instruction in quantum mechanics is becoming increasingly important as the field is not only a key part of modern physics research, but is also important for emerging technologies. However, many students regard quantum mechanics as a…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-02-04 Victoria Borish , H. J. Lewandowski

The role of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) as effective learning tools has been debated in past research. While MCQs are widely used due to their ease in grading, open response questions are increasingly used for instruction, given…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Danielle R. Thomas , Conrad Borchers , Sanjit Kakarla , Jionghao Lin , Shambhavi Bhushan , Boyuan Guo , Erin Gatz , Kenneth R. Koedinger

Quantum metrology plays a fundamental role in many scientific areas. However, the complexity of engineering entangled probes and the external noise raise technological barriers for realizing the expected precision of the to-be-estimated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Xiaodong Yang , Xi Chen , Jun Li , Xinhua Peng , Raymond Laflamme

We solve the master equations of two charged qubits measured by two serially coupled quantum point contacts (QPCs). We describe two-qubit dynamics by comparing entangled states with product states, and show that the QPC current can be used…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tetsufumi Tanamoto , Xuedong Hu

Quantum machine learning (QML) leverages quantum computing for classical inference, furnishes the processing of quantum data with machine-learning methods, and provides quantum algorithms adapted to noisy devices. Typically, QML proposals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Luis Mantilla Calderón , Robert Raussendorf , Polina Feldmann , Dmytro Bondarenko

We study the back action on a coupled multiple-qubit system induced by a quantum cavity probe in a non-demolition quantum measurement scheme. The exact quantum state stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger equation is derived to systematically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-02 Yusui Chen , Wufu Shi , Debing Zeng , Ting Yu

Free-response research-based assessments, like the Colorado Upper-division Electrostatics Diagnostic (CUE), provide rich, fine-grained information about students' reasoning. However, because of the difficulties inherent in scoring these…

Physics Education · Physics 2014-10-16 Bethany R. Wilcox , Steven J. Pollock

We discuss the development and evaluation of quantum interactive learning tutorials (QuILTs) which are suitable for undergraduate courses in quantum mechanics. QuILTs are based on the investigation of student difficulties in learning…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-03-11 Chandralekha Singh

As the field of quantum information science and engineering (QISE) continues its rapid growth, there are increasing concerns about the workforce demands and the necessity of preparing students for quantum-related careers. Given the…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-10-02 Fargol Seifollahi , Chandralekha Singh

Interdisciplinary introduction to quantum information science (QIS) courses are proliferating at universities across the US, but the experiences of instructors in these courses have remained largely unexplored in the discipline-based…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-07-04 Josephine C. Meyer , Gina Passante , Steven J. Pollock , Bethany R. Wilcox

Quantum process learning is emerging as an important tool to study quantum systems. While studied extensively in coherent frameworks, where the target and model system can share quantum information, less attention has been paid to whether…

We investigated physics students' learning experience and behaviour in a second-year laboratory by analyzing transcribed audio recordings of laboratory sessions. One student group was given both a problem and procedure and asked to analyze…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-08-25 Bei Cai , Lindsay A. Mainhood , Ryan Groome , Corinne Laverty , Alastair McLean

The single-photon quantum filtering problems have been investigated recently with applications in quantum computing. In practice, the detector responds with a quantum efficiency of less than unity since there exists some mode mismatch…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Zhiyuan Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Nina H. Amini
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