Courses
Keep in mind that these courses may not be available to every department, so make sure to learn more about courses you are interested in and confirm your eligibility.
Quantum information science seeks to understand how fundamental laws of quantum physics can be used to dramatically improve the acquisition, transmission, and processing of information.
Courses in this area discuss basic, intermediate and advanced concepts of quantum information and quantum computation: qubits, entanglement, quantum gates and quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, as well as topics including physical qubits and quantum computing architectures.
EE 500Q: Quantum Information Science and Engineering Seminar
Weekly presentations from quantum scientists across multiple disciplines; covering industry, academia, and national lab experiences in QISE.
Professor Kai-Mei Fu / Winter 2025
PHYS 107: Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, and the Foundations of the Modern Technological World.
Professor Miguel Morales / Winter 2025
PHYS 225: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Emphasizes two-state systems. Introduces spin and applications in nuclear magnetic resonance.
Professor Matthew Yankowitz / Autumn 2024
Professor Natalie Paquette / Winter 2025
PHYS 324: Quantum Mechanics – Part I
Introduction to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics: need for quantum theory, Schrodinger equation, operators, angular momentum, the hydrogen atom, identical particles, and the periodic table.
Professor Jason Detwiler / Autumn 2024
PHYS 325: Quantum Mechanics – Part II
Continuation of PHYS 324. Introduction to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics: perturbation theory, the variational principle, radiation; application of quantum mechanics to atomic physics, magnetic resonance, scattering, and various special topics.
Professor Aurel Bulgac / Winter 2025
PHYS 517: Quantum Mechanics
First of a three-part sequence. Modern non-relativistic quantum mechanics developed, beginning with its basic principles. Dirac and abstract operator notation introduced, starting with simple examples.
Professor Isabel Garcia-Garcia / Autumn 2024
PHYS 518: Quantum Mechanics
Second of a three-part sequence.
Professor Isabel Garcia-Garcia / Winter 2025
PHYS 519: Quantum Mechanics
Third of a three-part sequence.
Professor Stephen Sharpe / Spring 2025
PHYS 521: Quantum Information
Quantum information and quantum computing. Landauer’s Principle, density matrices, Bell and CHSH inequalities, GHZ state, quantum circuits, noisy gates, universality, superdense coding, quantum teleportation algorithms, open quantum systems, decoherence, quantum error correction and fault tolerance, physical implementations.
Professor Mark Rudner / Autumn 2024
EE 522: Quantum Information Practicum
Professor Sara Mouradian / Spring 2025
PHYS 522A: Quantum Implementations
This project-based course is designed to highlight the challenges of implementing quantum information systems. The course will utilize IonQ quantum hardware as well as IonQ’s quantum hardware, accessed via Microsoft’s Azure Quantum.
Professor Mark Rudner / Winter 2025
CHEM 561/MSE 561: Introduction to Quantum Information Science and Engineering for Chemists and Materials Scientists
Mathematical and quantum mechanical foundations, qubits, coherence, entanglement, applications, and materials systems. Prerequisite: CHEM 455 (or equivalent), or permission of instructor ; recommended: a course in physical and/or quantum chemistry.
Professors Brandi Cossairt and Peter Pauzauskie / Autumn 2024
PHYS 570: Quantum Field Theory
Emphasizes either relativistic quantum field theory or the many-body problem.
Professor David Kaplan / Autumn 2024
PHYS 571: Quantum Field Theory
Professor David Kaplan / Winter 2025
PHYS 572: Modern Quantum Field Theory
Professor Silas Beane / Spring 2025
PHYS 578A: Black Holes and Quantum Information
This course will cover a modern perspective on quantum aspects of black holes and holography. In the first half of the course, a review of topics on black hole thermodynamics and how it led to holography and AdS/CFT. In the second part, a review of modern developments such as the connection with quantum chaos.
Professor Joaquin Turiaci / Autumn 2024
Quantum technology broadly describes fields of applied research encompassing computational, imaging and sensing devices that use quantum effects for enhanced performance.
Courses in this area focus on practical applications and physical implementations of systems based on properties of quantum mechanics, such as quantum computing, quantum cryptography, quantum simulations, quantum sensors, quantum metrology and quantum imaging.
PHYS 419: Quantum Computing (Undergraduate)
Introduction to the theory and practice of quantum computation. Includes physics of information processing, quantum logic, quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, quantum communication, and cryptography.
Professor Boris Blinov / Autumn 2024
ECE/EE 421 + 521: Quantum Mechanics for Engineers
This course is designed for students who are interested in applied quantum mechanics, from a physics and math perspective. Students will be introduced to the basic physical and mathematical aspects of quantum mechanics. The focus will be on applying principles of quantization, and superposition principle to understand how to engineer better emitters of light, conductors and computers. Learn about quantum dots, ballistic transport, graphene, nanotubes, qubits, quantum computing/information, public key cryptography basics and Grover’s Algorithm. The students will use Qiskit to solve homework problems in quantum information and python code to solve other quantum problems.
Professor M.P. (Anant) Anantram / Winter 2025
CHEM 465 + 565: Computational Chemistry
Basics of molecular quantum chemistry (Hartree-Fock and density functional theory); numerical implementation using computers, including basics of programming and scientific computing; applications to problems in chemistry.
Professor Xiaosong Li / Winter 2025
EE 487 + 587: Introduction to Photonics
Introduction to optical principles and phenomena. Topics include electromagnetic theory of light, interference, diffraction, polarization, photon optics, laser principles, Gaussian beam optics, semiconductor optics, semiconductor photonic devices.
Professor Lih Lin / Autumn 2024
EE 488 + 588: Advanced Photonics
Professor Lih Lin / Winter 2025
CSE 434: Introduction to Quantum Computation
Professor Chinmay Nirkhe / Spring 2025
EE 528: Quantum Optics for Quantum Information Application
Professor Rahul Trivedi / Spring 2025
EE 535: Applied Nanophotonics
Professor Arka Majumdar / Spring 2025
EE 539: Cryogenic Electronics and Measurement Techniques for Computing, Sensing, and Power Applications
This course will start by introducing students to the physics of matter at low temperatures, then proceed to discuss phenomena that become more pronounced or emerge at low temperatures, such the quantum Hall effect and superconductivity. Afterwards, we will review electrical transport in cryogenic semiconducting amplifiers and superconducting Josephson junctions used for quantum and classical computing applications. We will then proceed to discuss examples of largescale applications.
Professor Serena Eley / Autumn 2024
EE 539: Nanotechnology Modeling
Professor Scott Dunham / Winter 2025
EE 589: Special Topics – Quantum Sensing
Professor Sara Mouradian / Winter 2025
This course is designed for students interested in either developing new quantum sensors or applying quantum sensors to their research. We will cover the quantum mechanics needed to understand basic quantum sensor operation and analyze common quantum sensing protocols in detail to understand the promise and limitations of these systems. In the second half of the course we will delve into the current state of the art – both in building deployable systems and in pushing experiments to their theoretical limit.
ECE/EE 598 P: Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Computing Basics for Engineers
Professor MP (Anant) Anantram / Summer 2025
CSE 534: Quantum Information and Computation
An introduction to the field of quantum computing from the perspective of computer science theory. Quantum computing leverages the revolutionary potential of computers that exploit the parallelism of the quantum mechanical laws of the universe.
Professor Chinmay Nirkhe / Autumn 2024
CSE 599: Quantum Learning Theory
An introduction to the field of quantum computing from the perspective of computer science theory. Quantum computing leverages the revolutionary potential of computers that exploit the parallelism of the quantum mechanical laws of the universe.
Professor Andrea Coladangelo/ Winter 2025
Quantum materials possess unusual properties, based on quantum mechanical interactions, that could revolutionize many fields of technology.
Courses in this area describe properties and development of these materials which and have a wide range of potential applications including magnetic field sensing, low-power memory modules, high-density storage devices, quantum computers and energy-related technologies.
CHEM 455: Physical Chemistry
Introduction to quantum chemistry and spectroscopy. Theory of quantum mechanics presented at an elementary level and applied to the electronic structure of atoms and molecules and to molecular spectra.
Professors David Ginger & David Masiello / Autumn 2024
CHEM E 456: Quantum Mechanics for Chemical Engineers
Provides chemical engineers with the theoretical and mathematical framework necessary to approach quantum mechanical problems in engineering, while also making explicit ties to the chemical engineering undergraduate core curriculum.
Professor Vince Holmberg / Autumn 2024
ECE 482/EE 539: Semiconductor Devices
This course focuses on the fundamental principles of semiconductor devices, including p-n junctions, field-effect transistors and memory devices. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the underlying device physics and be introduced to materials properties. The course emphasizes applications and the theoretical foundations necessary for analyzing and designing semiconductor technologies.
Professor MP (Anant) Anantram / Autumn 2024
CHEM 485 + 585: Electronic Structure and Application of Materials
Introduction to electronic structure theory of solids from a chemical perspective, including band theory and the free electron model, with an emphasis in the second half of the quarter on modern trends in research in inorganic materials in the bulk and on the nanometer scale.
Professor Alexandra Velia / Winter 2025
CHEM 486 + 586: Electronic Dynamics in Organic and Inorganic Materials
Energy and charge transfer; exciton migration and charge transport; photophysical dynamics in optoelectronic and kinetic processes in electrochemical energy conversion.
Professor Cody Schlenker / Spring 2025
EE 527: Micro and Nanofabrication
Principles and techniques for the fabrication of microelectronics devices and integrated circuits. Includes clean room laboratory practices and chemical safety, photolithography, wet and dry etching, oxidation and diffusion, metallization and dielectric deposition, compressed gas systems, vacuum systems, thermal processing systems, plasma systems, and metrology.
Professor Mo Li / Spring 2025
CHEM E 535: Nanomaterials Chemistry and Engineering
Rigorous overview of fundamental chemical and physical concepts important to nanomaterials science and engineering. Focus on luminescent, plasmonic, magnetic nanomaterials. Students will learn basic concepts prevalent in the nanomaterials literature, and develop rigorous mathematical understanding of fundamental principles that govern many of the advanced materials that are currently under development in the field.
Professor Vince Holmberg / Spring 2025
MSE 541: Defects in Materials
Professor Peter Pauzauskie / Winter 2025
MSE 476/576: Introduction to Optoelectronic Materials
Professor Xiadong Xu/ Winter 2025
MSE 498/599: Superconductivity
Professors Charles Marcus and Mo Chen / Spring 2025
CHEM 550: Introduction to Quantum Chemistry
Origins and basic postulates of quantum mechanics, solutions to single-particle problems, angular momentum and hydrogenic wave functions, matrix methods, perturbation theory, variational methods.
Professor Anne McCoy / Autumn 2024
CHEM 551: Introduction to Quantum Chemistry
Electronic structure of many-electron atoms and molecules, vibration and rotation levels of molecules, effects of particle exchange, angular momentum and group theory, spectroscopic selection rules.
Professor Munira Khalil / Winter 2025
PHYS 575A: Cutting-Edge Semiconductor Devices
Professor David Cobden/ Autumn 2024
PHYS 575D: Quantum Devices: The Entanglement Frontier
Professor Charles Marcus/ Winter 2025