Complex Systems and Biological Physics Seminars

Quantum Mechanics and Classical Optics: New ways to combine classical and quantum methods

Name: Quantum Mechanics and Classical Optics: New ways to combine classical and quantum methods
Start: 2022-12-15T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-12-15T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Zoom

by Prof. Thomas Konrad (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Thursday 15 Dec 2022, 13:00 → 15:00 Europe/Stockholm

Zoom

https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/64351658248

Description

Quantum Mechanics and classical optics feature similar phenomena such as superposition, interference and even entanglement. Because of the analogy, techniques from optics can be used in quantum mechanics and vice versa. In this talk, I want to address two questions. 1) What can we learn from formulating optics using the Dirac formalism? Is it possible to implement quantum algorithms by means of classical optics?