Collaborative Research: Connecting Spins-First Quantum Mechanics Instruction to Quantum Information Science

合作研究：将自旋第一量子力学教学与量子信息科学联系起来

• 批准号: 2012147
• 负责人: Bethany Wilcox
• 金额: $ 48.2万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2012147&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Connecting; Spins; First

Quantum information science (QIS) is a rapidly growing area of research that can revolutionize many aspects of our lives. Recently, the United States government committed resources to ensure that the USA remains a QIS leader in both research and industry. This effort has led to a growing number of QIS education initiatives at institutions around the country. QIS education presents some unique challenges, as QIS is a diverse field that will draw students from many different disciplines, including physics, electrical and computer engineering, mathematics, and chemistry. These students will need to speak the common language of quantum mechanics (QM). While physics students will have had a QM course during their degree, many other students will not have this preparation. One of the award goals is to support students without prior quantum mechanics instruction in learning the QM concepts necessary for QIS. The second goal of this award is to increase the number of students who have the opportunity to learn about QIS by developing instructional materials instructors can use in their traditional quantum mechanics courses. Both of these efforts will be supported by research into student understanding.This award aims to support students without prior quantum mechanics instruction in learning the QM concepts necessary for QIS courses. The award will increase the number of students who can learn about QIS by developing instructional materials. The work utilizes existing models for the development and distribution of new and innovative curricular materials that can serve instructors' needs. The effectiveness of these materials will be established by direct assessment as an integrated part of their development and pilot implementation. The curricula materials developed by this project will facilitate the incorporation of QIS into existing courses. The materials will be produced at multiple institutions with a diverse population of students who better reflect the broader population. The advisory board for this award brings expertise in collaborative dissemination, content, industrial needs, pedagogy, and curriculum development. This knowledge will be used to ensure that the materials developed by this project are effectively designed and disseminated to ensure maximum impact on undergraduate and graduate physics and QIS programs.The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EHR) program in NSF's Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), is providing co-funding for this project in recognition of its contribution to improving the effectiveness of STEM education for college and university students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

量子信息科学（QIS）是一个快速发展的研究领域，可以彻底改变我们生活的许多方面。最近，美国政府投入资源，确保美国在研究和工业领域保持 QIS 领先地位。这项努力导致全国各地机构开展了越来越多的 QIS 教育活动。 QIS 教育提出了一些独特的挑战，因为 QIS 是一个多元化的领域，将吸引来自许多不同学科的学生，包括物理、电气和计算机工程、数学和化学。这些学生需要使用量子力学 (QM) 的通用语言。虽然物理专业的学生在攻读学位期间会学习质量管理课程，但许多其他学生不会进行这种准备。该奖项的目标之一是支持没有接受过量子力学指导的学生学习 QIS 所需的 QM 概念。该奖项的第二个目标是通过开发教师可在其传统量子力学课程中使用的教学材料，增加有机会了解 QIS 的学生数量。这两项努力都将得到对学生理解的研究的支持。该奖项旨在支持没有事先接受过量子力学指导的学生学习 QIS 课程所需的 QM 概念。该奖项将通过开发教学材料来增加能够了解 QIS 的学生数量。这项工作利用现有模型来开发和分发可以满足教师需求的新的创新课程材料。这些材料的有效性将通过直接评估来确定，作为其开发和试点实施的一个组成部分。该项目开发的课程材料将有助于将 QIS 纳入现有课程。这些材料将在拥有不同学生群体的多个机构制作，更好地反映更广泛的群体。该奖项的顾问委员会带来了协作传播、内容、行业需求、教学法和课程开发方面的专业知识。 这些知识将用于确保该项目开发的材料得到有效设计和传播，以确保对本科生和研究生物理学和 QIS 项目产生最大影响。 NSF 教育和人类理事会的改善本科生 STEM 教育（IUSE：EHR）项目本科教育部 (DUE) 资源部 (EHR) 正在为该项目提供共同资助，以表彰其为提高大学生 STEM 教育有效性所做的贡献。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，并被认为值得支持。

项目成果

How Media Hype Affects Our Physics Teaching: A Case Study on Quantum Computing

媒体炒作如何影响我们的物理教学：量子计算案例研究

• DOI: 10.1119/5.0117671
• 发表时间: 2023-05
• 期刊: The Physics Teacher
• 作者: Meyer, Josephine C.;Pollock, Steven James;Wilcox, Bethany R.;Passante, Gina
• 通讯作者: Passante, Gina

Effectiveness of an online homework tutorial about changing basis in quantum mechanics

关于改变量子力学基础的在线作业教程的有效性

• DOI: 10.1119/perc.2022.pr.corsiglia
• 发表时间: 2022-01
• 期刊: Effectiveness of an online homework tutorial about changing basis in quantum mechanics
• 作者: Corsiglia, Giaco;Pollock, Steven J.;Wilcox, Bethany R.
• 通讯作者: Wilcox, Bethany R.

An Overview of Quantum Information Science Courses at US Institutions

美国院校量子信息科学课程概览

• DOI: 10.1119/perc.2021.pr.cervantes
• 发表时间: 2021-10
• 期刊: 2021 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings
• 作者: Cervantes, Bianca;Passante, Gina;Wilcox, Bethany R.;Pollock, Steven J.
• 通讯作者: Pollock, Steven J.

Modified color frames for analyzing group interactions during an online quantum tutorial

修改颜色框架，用于在在线量子教程中分析群体相互作用

• DOI: 10.1119/perc.2022.pr.cervantes
• 发表时间: 2022-09
• 期刊: 2022 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings
• 作者: Cervantes, Bianca;Passante, Gina;Corsiglia, Giaco;Pollock, Steven J.
• 通讯作者: Pollock, Steven J.

Investigating students’ strategies for interpreting quantum states in an upper-division quantum computing course

研究学生在高年级量子计算课程中解释量子态的策略

• DOI: 10.1119/perc.2021.pr.meyer
• 发表时间: 2021-10
• 期刊: 2021 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings
• 作者: Meyer, Josephine;Passante, Gina;Pollock, Steven J.;Vignal, Michael;Wilcox, Bethany R.
• 通讯作者: Wilcox, Bethany R.