Didactic notebooks

Collection of jupyter notebooks consisting of interactive lecture / application notes covering various topics related to quantum experiments.

RISE Presentations

The notebooks in this folders have been set up with RISE to use in lectures and presentations.

To view and use the notebooks in presentation mode, install rise with:

conda install -c conda-forge rise

Description of available notebooks

bbRadiationVsJohnson

Application note describing the differences in the energy spectra between Blackbody radiation and Johnson-Nyquist noise.

jpaTheory

Describes the theory behind non-linear tank circuits, and how to use them as linear amplifiers and digital discriminators for qubit readout.

1-qubitGates (WIP)

QIP definition of the qubit Hamiltonian and single qubit gates. Plot a Bloch sphere showing the effects of applying single-qubit gates to a quantum state. TODO: expand to include 2-qubit gates and some simple circuits.

1-qubitEvolution

Define qubit hamiltonian in the laboratory frame. Apply the time-evolution operator (for time-dependent and time-independent Hamiltonians) and plot the state evolution on the Bloch sphere. Qubit Hamiltonian in the rotating frame, how to use pulsed interactions to perform single-qubit gates.

2-qubitEvolution

Define 2-qubit Hamiltonian and states from single qubits. Add interaction terms and plot the evolution of qubits under 2-qubit interactions.

spinEvolution

Similar to the initial part of 1-qubitEvolution but using the specific example of a spin-1/2 in a static magnetic field.