Courses

CQuIC faculty are engaged in teaching the next generation of scholars in quantum information and computation. Some course descriptions are linked below.

Summer Courses Taught by CQuIC Postdoctoral Fellows

• Summer 2025, Quantum Shannon Theory Dr. Mohammed Alhejji
• Summer 2024, Optimization and Quantum Foundations Dr. Cunlu Zhou, Dr. Mohammed Alhejji, and Dr. John DeBrota
• Summer 2023, Quantum Internet and Quantum Metrology Dr. Tzula Propp and Dr. Marco Rodriguez 
• Summer 2022, Tensor Network Methods Dr. Philip Blocher 
• Summer 2021, Many-body Quantum Chaos Dr. Pablo Poggi 
• Summer 2020, Many-body Methods and Techniques in Quantum Information Dr. Sayonee Ray 
• Summer 2019, Lie Groups in Quantum Information Dr. Pablo Poggi and Dr. Christopher Jackson

Courses Taught by Prof. Susan R. Atlas

• CHEM / ECE 573 Introduction to Quantum Technology for Chemists and Engineers Fall 2025
• NSME 550 Social & Ethical Implications of Nanotechnology, "Ethics of AI" module Fall 2024, 2025
• PHYS 581 / CHEM 567 / NSMS 595 Density Functional Theory Fall 2021, 2025
• CHEM 315 Introduction to Physical Chemistry Spring 2021, 2025
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• PHYS 581 / CHEM 567 / NSME 595 Applied Machine Learning Fall 2024
• PHYS 581 / CHEM 567 / ECE 995 Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry Fall 2022
• CHEM 567 Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry Fall 2022
• BMS 516 Molecular Genetics and Genomics (with the late Prof. Stephanie Ruby) Spring 2004, 2011
• PHYS 505 Statistical Mechanics
• PHYS 538 Computational Physics (with Dr. Paul Alsing)
• PHYS 500 Practical Parallel Computing (with Dr. Michael Warren, LANL)

Courses Taught by Prof. Francisco Elohim Becerra

• PHYC 306L Electronics Laboratory Fall 2023, 2025
• PHYS / ECE 463 Advanced Optics I Fall 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024
• PHYS 307L Junior Laboratory Spring 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• PHYS 1310 Calculus-Based Physics I Spring 2021
• PHYS / PHYC 493L Senior Laboratory Spring 2019
• PHYS 307 Lab Spring 2018
• PHYS 464 Laser Physics I Fall 2015, 2018
• PHYS 464 Laser Physics I Fall 2017
• PHYS 307 Lab Spring 2017
• PHYS 306 Junior Lab Fall 2016
• PHYS 307 Lab Spring 2016
• PHYS 302 Photonics Fall 2014
• PHYS 307 Junior Lab Fall 2013

Courses Taught by Prof. Carl Caves

• PHYS 366 Mathematical Methods of Physics Fall 2015
• Tutorial Introduction to Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3
• Quantum Metrology: An Information-Theoretic Perspective (3 Introductory Lectures) (pptxorpptorpdf)
• PHYS 572 Quantum Information Theory Fall 2014
• PHYS 503 Classical Mechanics I Fall 2013
• PHYS 521 Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2011
• PHYS 522 Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2010
• PHYS 571 Quantum Computation Fall 2009

Courses Taught by Prof. Ivan Deutsch

• PHYS 511 Graduate Electrodynamics Spring 2025
• PHYS 581 Quantum Optics II Spring 2014, 2022, 2024
• PHYS 581 Open Quantum Systems Spring 2023
• PHYS 566 Quantum Optics I Fall 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023
• PHYS 492 Upper Division Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2004, 2019
• PHYS 491 Upper Division Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2003, 2018
• PHYS 581 Quantum Optics II Spring 2018
• PHYS 522 Graduate Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2016
• PHYS 521 Graduate Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2014
• PHYS 406 Upper Division Electricity and Magnetism Fall 2012
• PHYS 511 Graduate Electricity and Magnetism Spring 2012
• PHYS 531 Modern Atomic Physics Fall 2011
• PHYS 405 Upper Division Electricity and Magnetism I Spring 2009
• PHYS 500 Seminar Ultracold Atoms Spring 2009
• Short Course in Quantum Information Fall 2005

Courses Taught by Prof. Milad Marvian

• ECE 445&545 / PHYS 480&581 Introduction to Quantum Information Science Fall 2024, 2025
• ECE 547 / PHYS 581 Quantum Error Correction Spring 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025

Courses Taught by Prof. Akimasa Miyake

• PHYS 571 Quantum Computation Spring 2025
• PHYS 466 & 468 Methods for Theoretical Physics I Fall 2024
• PHYS 492 & 497 Intermediate Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2024
• PHYS 466 & 468 Methods for Theoretical Physics I Fall 2023
• PHYC 522 & 551 Graduate Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2023
• PHYC 522 & 551 Graduate Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2022
• PHYC 522 & 551 Graduate Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2022
• PHYC 522 & 551 Graduate Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2021
• PHYC 522 & 551 Graduate Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2021
• PHYC 522 & 551 Graduate Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2020
• PHYC 492 & 497 Intermediate Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2020
• PHYC 491 & 496 Intermediate Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2019
• PHYC 366 Mathematical Methods of Physics Fall 2018
• PHYC 571 Quantum Computation Spring 2018
• PHYC 366 Mathematical Methods of Physics Fall 2017
• PHYC 522 & 551 Graduate Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2017
• PHYC 521 & 551 Graduate Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2016
• PHYC 521 & 551 Graduate Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2015
• PHYC 571 Quantum Computation Spring 2015
• PHYC 491 & 496 Intermediate Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2014
• PHYC 492 & 497 Intermediate Quantum Mechanics II Spring 2014
• PHYC 491 & 496 Intermediate Quantum Mechanics I Fall 2013
• PHYC 571 Quantum Computation Spring 2013

Courses Taught by Prof. Niklas Muller

• PHYS 466 & 468 Methods of Theoretical Physics I Fall 2025

Other Courses

• PHYS 452 & 581 Introduction to Quantum Information Landahl
• PHYS 531 Atomic and Molecular Structure Deutsch
• PHYS 566 Quantum Optics Deutsch
• PHYS / CS 571 Quantum Computation Caves
• PHYS 572 Quantum Information Theory Caves

Other Short Courses

• P500G Laser Cooling Deutsch
• Short Course in Quantum Information  Deutsch