Quantum Experiments

How to use this course

Begin with basic algebra, waves, and probability. Chapters 1–12 introduce amplitudes and experimental reasoning in context; the later chapters use two-component vectors, simple matrices, and tensor products, explained through examples. Optional sensing derivations use elementary differentiation. Quantum Foundations and Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics offer deeper mathematical and philosophical treatments.

Every chapter develops a question, an apparatus or thought scenario, a quantitative prediction, and the limits of the inference. Each includes an interactive visualization, a worked example, three problems with hints and solutions, and sources. Read sequentially or follow an experiment from the contents below.

The visualizations are idealized teaching models. Detector clicks and the downloadable capstone scan are labelled synthetic; they are not laboratory measurements. Thought scenarios explicitly separate controlled quantum memories from human observers. No interpretation is presented as experimentally selected by the animation.

Use Play for a parameter sweep or a sequence of synthetic trials. Pause to inspect a state, Step to advance without continuous motion, and Reset to return to the initial setup. Nothing autoplays. Controls work with a keyboard, values are available in tables, and the static explanations remain readable without JavaScript or a network connection.

This is a complete first teaching edition, with developed lessons throughout. The capstone asks you to report a reproducible result with uncertainty and limitations. Advanced results are identified by their assumptions and linked sources; the course does not claim full proofs of every general theorem.