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| Abstract Title: | Investigating Students' Understanding of Entanglement |
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| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Abstract: | Entanglement is at the heart of emerging technologies such as quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum networking. These technologies are developed by interdisciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, software developers and other scientists. As a result, quantum concepts, such as entanglement, are important to introduce to a wide range of disciplines. In response, many universities have implemented quantum information science and engineering (QISE) courses for undergraduate students. These QISE courses present quantum concepts to students from diverse disciplines at an introductory level, whereas previously these concepts were reserved for advanced physics students. We interviewed students who had recently completed an introductory QISE course in order to investigate their conceptual and mathematical understanding of entanglement. We found that entanglement was most strongly associated with the notion of correlation between measurements, while only some students were able to productively use the mathematical notion of whether or not a quantum state was factorable. |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 2 |
| Poster Number: | B63 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Benjamin Zwickl Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Hope Hersom, Columbia University |
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