ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 15 Interactive Classroom: 10 Total: 28
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Particle Physics
Areas: Theoretical Physics
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
This is the second part of the introductory course to quantum mechanics. It contains the necessary knowledge so that any student can configure a complete itinerary with compulsory and optional subjects. The teaching will be oriented to the study of essential concepts to understand the quantum theory of information and its implementation in physical systems of quantum nature.
Learning Outcomes:
Students who take this course will be able to:
CON_01: Know the theoretical foundations of quantum mechanics, mathematical formalism, axioms and simpler systems.
CON_02: Acquire knowledge about quantum systems with many degrees of freedom as a way to store and process information.
1. Review of wave mechanics of a particle
2. Harmonic oscillator. Creation and destruction operators.
3. Multipartite systems, tensor product, operators. EPR paradox.
4. Quantum statistics: bosons and fermions.
5. Atom-electromagnetic field interaction.
6. Quantization of the electromagnetic field.
A. V. Ramallo: Quantum Physics Notes, USC, 2023.
A. V. Ramallo: Solved Problems in Quantum Physics, USC, 2023.
M. Le Bellac: Quantum Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
D. Griffiths, F. Schroeter: Introduction to quantum mechanics, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
M. Le Bellac: A short introduction to quantum information and quantum computation, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
M.A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
L. Susskind, A. Friedman: Quantum Mechanics--The Theoretical Minimum, Basic Books, 2014.
The students who take this course will acquire the abilities and skills of critical and creative thinking, communication and collaborative work that are indicated in the degree verification report (HD0, HD1, HD2, HD3).
In addition to the basic (CB1-CB5), general (CG1-CG4) and transversal (CT1-CT8) skills specified in the degree verification report, students will acquire the following specific skills for this course:
CE1: Understand the domain, concepts, methods and basic techniques of quantum mechanics: mathematical formalism, postulates, operators, matrices, Bloch sphere, photonic states.
CE2: Know and acquire competence in experimental techniques for processing quantum information: interactions, measurements, oscillations, interference, communication systems, ...
CCE3: Understanding and knowledge of the fundamentals of the quantum theory of information, as well as the basic aspects of the four types of quantum technologies: computing, communications, metrology, simulation.
Expositive classes: the teacher presents the topics to the students.
Interactive classes: seminars and sessions based on solving problems.
Tutorials: personalized attention to students, guidance and resolution of doubts.
Autonomous work: study of the given subject and resolution of proposed exercises.
A course will be activated on the Moodle platform of the USC Virtual Campus to which information of interest to the student and various teaching material will be uploaded.
Continuous assessment: continued attendance and participation in expository and interactive classes and completion of the exercises proposed in them. It will account for 60% of the overall grade.
Preparation and/or presentation of work and resolution of additional exercises where the student will put into practice the methods and techniques learned in the subject. It will account for 40% of the overall grade.
Occasionally and exceptionally, in situations in which it has not been possible to carry out the continuous evaluation, the possibility of evaluating the corresponding 60% of the total grade by means of a final exam is considered.
These criteria will be applied both in the first and in the second opportunity of the call.
For cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the "Regulations for evaluating the academic performance of students and reviewing grades" will apply.
Expositive classes: 15 hours
Interactive classes: 10 hours
Tutorials: 3 hours
Personal work of the students: 47 hours.
Overall: 75 hours
Jose Manuel Sanchez De Santos
- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Theoretical Physics
- Phone
- 881813980
- josemanuel.sanchez.desantos [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Jose Luis Miramontes Antas
- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Theoretical Physics
- Phone
- 881814057
- jluis.miramontes [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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| 17:00-19:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | Classroom 2 |
| 01.10.2025 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 2 |
| 06.17.2025 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 2 |