{"id":176572,"date":"2016-02-02T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=3e8d97e120bcb25f83503a371e42c6f7"},"modified":"2016-02-02T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:00:00","slug":"interactive-tutorial-to-improve-student-understanding-of-single-photon-experiments-involving-amach-zehnder-interferometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=176572","title":{"rendered":"Interactive tutorial to improve student understanding of single photon experiments involving a\r\nMach\u2013Zehnder interferometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have developed and evaluated a quantum interactive learning tutorial (QuILT) on a Mach\u2013Zehnder<br \/>\ninterferometer with single photons to expose upper-level students in quantum mechanics courses to<br \/>\ncontemporary quantum optics applications. The QuILT strives to help students develop the ability to<br \/>\napply fundamental quantum principles to physical situations in quantum optics and explore the<br \/>\ndifferences between classical and quantum ideas. The QuILT adapts visualization tools to help<br \/>\nstudents build physical intuition about counter-intuitive quantum optics phenomena with single<br \/>\nphotons including a quantum eraser setup and focuses on helping them integrate qualitative and<br \/>\nquantitative understanding. We discuss findings from in-class evaluations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have developed and evaluated a quantum interactive learning tutorial (QuILT) on a Mach\u2013Zehnder<br \/>\ninterferometer with single photons to expose upper-level students in quantum mechanics courses to<br \/>\ncontemporary quantum optics applications. The QuILT &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-176572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}