WAVE:
wave propagation,
Young’s double-slit experiment,
Contribution,
Diffraction,
Rayleigh criterion.
QUANTUM MECHANICS:
Discrete spectrum-quantization of energy,
particle-wave dualism,
probabilistic description,
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and Bohr’s complementarity principle,
Quantum superposition and entanglement,
Schrödinger equation in one dimension,
Kinematics in classical and quantum mechanics
Particle in a potential well
Quantum barrier crossing- Tunnel effect
Quantum interference: Young’s double-slit experiment with particles.
The simplest quantum arrangements:
Polarizers and beam splitters,
polarization of light,
Malus Law for a Photon – Dirac Notation,
Input-output relationship of a classical beam splitter
Beamsplitter in the one-photon state
Pockel cell.
Quantum superposition and entanglement:
Coherent superimposition of states,
Quantum entanglement and the Bell basis,
Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox,
Quantum teleportation
Quantum Copy Forbidden Theorem
Quantum copying.
Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR) paradox,
Bell’s theorem
Quantum mechanical prediction
Bell–CHSH inequality.
QUANTUM SECURE COMMUNICATION:
Public Key Distribution – RSA,
Bennett–Brassard Protocol 84 (BB-84),
Bennett-92 (B-92) protocol,
Quantum money.
OPTICAL COMMUNICATION WITHOUT PHOTON EXCHANGE:
Mach–Zehnder Symbolometer,
Measurement without interaction,
N-symbol Mach–Zehnder arrangement,
Communication without signal transmission.
QUANTUM GATES AND CIRCUITS:
Quantum Logic Gates,
Universal quantum gates, the Bell circuit,
Super-dense coding,
quantum teleportation,
Quantum error correction.