Fun stuff & media

STEM in American Sign Language (Click to watch)

Watch Colin Lualdi's lecture on color centers in diamond (CC). For more content like this, check out Quantum ASL's YouTube channel!

Colin Lualdi gives a definition of the laser (CC). Find out more on Quantum ASL's YouTube channel!

Lab Tutorials (Click to watch)

Interferometry in the Lab by graduate student Joseph Chapman

Time Tagging by graduate student Joseph Chapman

How does an Optical Fingerprint Sensor work? Created by students Rebecca Holmes, Courtney Krafczyk, Sheldon Schlie, Michelle Victora, and JJ Wong

Using Wavefront Sensors in the Lab by graduate student Joseph Chapman

Setting up a Pulsed Laser Diode Driver by graduate student Joseph Chapman

Quantum State Tomographies by graduate student Spencer Johnson

Quantum Process Tomographies by graduate student Spencer Johnson

Fusion Splicing: Repairing Optical Fibers by graduate student Joseph Chapman

CW Ti:Sapphire Laser Turn-on, Use, and Alignment Instructions

Physical Revue videos (Click to watch)

The Physics of Dance featuring Paul and Sarah (2022)

John Floyd and Friend (2022)

Going Bananas by Colin Lualdi (2018)

Physics Phollies (2013)

240 Part 1 (2009)

240 Part 2 (2009)

Quantum Cookies

We celebrate milestones (such as a student passing his or her qual, prelim exam, or thesis defense) with a giant cookie.
Prelim exam: enhancing weak measurements by recycling light.
Thesis defense: based on an example of chromatic dispersion in the student's thesis.
Prelim exam: single photons and human vision. A depiction of the observer's visual field in our experiment.

Prelim exam.
Thesis defense on March 15, 2012.
Two out of three passed the qualifying exam in 2016.

Prelim exam: Superdense Teleportation from the ISS.
Prelim exam: Integrated Photonic Sources Towards Practical Quantum Networking.
Prelim exam: Quantum Steering.

Prelim exam: Drone to Drone QKD.



Quantum Information Animations

Unblocked Mach-Zender interferometer

Blocked Mach-Zender interferometer

BB84 quantum cryptography protocol

Schrodinger's cat

"Relativistic" quantum cryptography

Deterministic single-photon source

Atomic vapor single-photon detector


Other Entertainment

Ode to Entangled States

Photons twins, at birth separated
And yet they remain so well correlated
Their colors, directions and spins syncopated
No wonder these states are so celebrated

If that one goes this way, this one goes that
If this one comes early, that one comes late
Like two random roulette wheels, yet somehow both “fixed”
To hit the same number though they’re never mixed

They drove EPR to say “It’s incomplete”
They’ve got the Bell inequities beat
When factoring primes they allow you to cheat
Who knows what new marvel is next at our feet

Just out of reach were problems that dangled
Current attempts to solve them seem wangled
Perhaps what’s required is something new-fangled
Enter the states called hyper-entangled

Paul G. Kwiat

(Entanglement Stereogram) Get close to the screen, cross your eyes. Two images overlap at the center, you see them as one. The arrows move to a different depth.