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| Abstract Title: | Investigating students’ strategies for interpreting quantum states in an upper-division quantum computing course |
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| Abstract: | Significant focus in the PER community has been paid to student reasoning in undergraduate quantum mechanics. However, these same topics have remained largely unexplored in the context of emerging interdisciplinary quantum information science (QIS) courses. We conducted 15 exploratory think-aloud interviews with students in an upper-division quantum computing course at a large R1 university cross-listed in the physics and computer science departments. Focusing on responses to one particular problem, we identify two notably consistent problem-solving strategies across students in the context of a particular interview prompt, which we term Naive Measurement Probabilities (NMP) and Virtual Quantum Computer (VQC), respectively. Operating from a resources framework, we interpret these strategies as choices of coherent (and potentially mutually-generative)sets of resources to employ and available actions to perform. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 1 Room C |
| Poster Number: | 1C-18 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Josephine Meyer Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO 80309 Phone: 541-844-4344 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Gina Passante, Department of Physics, California State University Fullerton Steven Pollock, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder Michael Vignal, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder Bethany Wilcox, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder |
