Oxford Quantum Club

for high school students

General information

Convener

Dr. Alexander Lvovsky
E-mail: Alex.Lvovsky(at)physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 1865 272275

 

Textbook

A. I. Lvovsky, Quantum Physics: An Introduction Based on Photons Springer Amazon

Participant registration for 2026-27

Quantum Club Oxford Physics web page

Online code of conduct, safeguarding and privacy notices


Entrance test

2025

Instructions



2024

Problems

Solutions

2023

Problems

Solutions

2022

Problems
Solutions

 

2021

Problems: Oxford Moscow
Solutions: Oxford Moscow


2020

Problems
Solutions


Tutors

TBA


Course materials

Videolectures

Assignment 0 (Complex numbers)

Assignment 1 (Linear spaces, basis, dimension)

Assignment 2 (Hilbert space, photon polarization, measurements, quantum cryptography)

Assignment 3 (Adjoint spaces, operators and matrices)

Assignment 4 (Hermitian operators, spectral theorem, commutators, quantum observables, uncertainty principle)

Assignment 5 (Unitary operators, functions of operators, quantum evolution)

Assignment 6 (Tensor product spaces, entanglement, local measurements)

Assignment 7 (Quantum computation, nonlocality, interpretations of quantum mechanics, teleportation)