Engineering Quantum Mechanics

Herbert Ackland Pohl

Hiroshi Nagaoka

Bob Colwell

Sree Veda Mahanita Kaza, Omar Ali Beg

Electrical Engineering (EE) and Quantum Mechanics (QM) have gone hand in hand for many years, with each field helping the other advance. Many developments in EE, like transistors, lasers, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), rely on quantum mechanical effects for their fundamental operation. Similarly, development in EE enabled progress in experimental quantum physics. With devices and circuits shrinking to the nanoscale level, engineers have had to come across quantum phenomena directly. For example, at the 7-5 nm transistor technology nodes, the behavior of the transistor is significantly affected by quantum tunneling and energy quantization. Even though these effects were once negligible at the classical circuits design scale, they have now become increasingly difficult to manage as feature sizes approach atomic scales. Therefore, EE gave rise to the emerging field of quantum engineering by providing tools and techniques to harness, control, and measure quantum systems. This paper reviews the literature on how EE methods have impacted quantum mechanics’ research.

P.A. Lindsay

It has become fashionable to say that all electrical engineers, or at least those specialising in communication engineering, ought to be familiar with the basic ideas of quantum mechanics. In view of the ever-increasing load of university teaching, is this statement justified, and, if so, why? A reasonable case for the teaching of quantum mechanics to engineers can be made, and some simple ideas and mental analogies can be developed which may prove to be of use to electrical engineers.

Donald Gary Swanson

Progressing from the fundamentals of quantum mechanics (QM) to more complicated topics, Quantum Mechanics: Foundations and Applications provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a comprehensive examination of many applications that pertain to modern physics and engineering.Based on courses taught by the author, this textboo