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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesIIT Kanpur

    The Syllabus

    • Main differences between classical and quantum mechanics
    • Introduction to Coherence and Stochastic Processes
    • The Joint Probability Function used in Classical Optics: The Correlation Functions

    • Second-order Coherence Theory (Temporal)
    • Quantifying the Temporal Correlations
    • Second-order Coherence Theory (Spatial); Spatial Correlations

    • Quantifying the Spatial Correlations
    • Second-order Coherence Theory (Angular); Angular Correlations

    • Second-order Coherence Theory (Polarization)
    • Degree of Polarization

    • Coherent Mode Representation of Optical Fields
    • Review of Quantum Mechanics

    • Quantum Mechanical Correlation Functions
    • Basics of Nonlinear Optics

    • Two-Photon State Produced by Parametric Down-Conversion
    • Coherence and Quantum Entanglement
    • Temporal Two-Photon Interference

    • Some example of Two-Photon Interference Effects
    • Spatial Two-Photon Interference

    • Quantum Measurements
    • Can the Quantum Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete ?

    • Hidden Variable Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
    • Bell Inequalities

    • Entanglement Verification
    • Entanglement Quantification and Connection Between Coherence and Entanglement

    • 84 Quantum Cryptography
    • Quantum Teleportation

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