Engineering Quantum Mechanics

Harvard FAS

A rigorous introduction to the fundamental principles and applications of quantum mechanics, with emphasis on concepts relevant to modern quantum technologies. Beginning with archetypal quantum systems, students use and apply the postulates of quantum mechanics, developing the concepts of observables, rotations, the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, and time evolution of quantum states. Coupled spin-1/2 systems provide anintroduction to entanglement and its role as a uniquely quantum…