pQIT Notes Autumn ’23

Author

Prasanna Paithankar

Published

May 12, 2025

About

These notes were compiled from the lectures of photonic Quantum Information Techonlogies (AT60205) Autumn 2023 delivered by Prof. Syamsunder De and Prof. Fabien Bretenaker at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. The syllabus of the course can be found here.

The course content is based on the book Introductory Quantum Optics by Gerry and Knight (2005).

These notes by no means are complete and are not a substitute for the lectures. They are meant to be used as a reference for the course. If you find any errors, please feel free to open an issue or a pull request.

Resources

  1. Practice Problems
  2. Midsem Paper
  3. Endsem Paper
Gerry, Christopher C., and Peter L. Knight. 2005. Introductory Quantum Optics. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/introductory-quantum-optics/FE693BC6459D0E6B48EFC.