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Measuring student understanding in quantum computing: Development and validation of the Quantum Computing Conceptual Survey
Josephine C. Meyer, Molly Griston, Gina Passante +2
Research-based assessments (RBAs) have proven to be valuable tools in PER, supporting both instructional reform and foundational research. In the rapidly-growing field of Quantum I…
Computer-generated QIS tutorial feedback is valued by students, but does not replicate in-class collaboration
Josephine C. Meyer, Steven J. Pollock, Bethany R. Wilcox +1
PER has consistently demonstrated the effectiveness of small-group tutorials in helping students develop conceptual understanding and fluency, but instructor uptake is limited by r…
Can a CNOT Gate Affect the Control Qubit? Student Resources for Understanding CNOT and Entanglement
Jonan-Rohi S. Plueger, Bethany R. Wilcox, Steven J. Pollock +1
The Controlled-Not (CNOT) gate is essential to algorithms in quantum computing for its ability to entangle qubits. As such, it is important to understand how students learning quan…
Assessing student learning in quantum computing: Lessons from developing a test item on phase kickback
Josephine C. Meyer, Steven J. Pollock, Bethany R. Wilcox +1
A major challenge for quantum workforce development is the need to both understand and reliably assess student learning of quantum information science (QIS) fundamentals. Yet stude…
A Framework for Deductive Semantic Content Analysis at Scale in Science Education Using Text Embeddings
Jonas Timmann Mjaaland, Markus Fleten Kreutzer, Halvor Tyseng +5
Qualitative content analysis of open-ended survey responses is a commonly used research method in science education. However, traditional coding approaches are often time-consuming…
Disparities in access to US quantum information education
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Bethany R. Wilcox
Driven in large part by the National Quantum Initiative Act of 2018, quantum information science (QIS) coursework and degree programs are rapidly spreading across US institutions.…
Introductory quantum information science coursework at US institutions: Content coverage
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock +1
Despite rapid growth of quantum information science and engineering (QIS/QISE) workforce development initiatives, perceived lack of agreement among faculty on core content has made…
New perspectives on student reasoning about measurement uncertainty: More or better data
Andy Schang, Matthew Dew, Emily M. Stump +2
Uncertainty is an important and fundamental concept in physics education. Students are often first exposed to uncertainty in introductory labs, expand their knowledge across lab co…
Comparing introductory and beyond-introductory students' reasoning about uncertainty
Emily M. Stump, Mark Hughes, Gina Passante +1
Uncertainty is an important concept in physics laboratory instruction. However, little work has examined how students reason about uncertainty beyond the introductory (intro) level…
Context affects student thinking about sources of uncertainty in classical and quantum mechanics
Emily M. Stump, Matthew Dew, Gina Passante +1
Measurement uncertainty is an important topic in the undergraduate laboratory curriculum. Previous research on student thinking about experimental measurement uncertainty has focus…
How media hype affects our physics teaching: A case study on quantum computing
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock +1
Popular media is an unspoken yet ever-present element of the physics landscape and a tool we can utilize in our teaching. It is also well-understood that students enter the physics…
Investigating student interpretations of the differences between classical and quantum computers: Are quantum computers just analog classical computers?
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock +1
Significant attention in the PER community has been paid to student cognition and reasoning processes in undergraduate quantum mechanics. Until recently, however, these same topics…
The interdisciplinary quantum information classroom: Themes from a survey of quantum information science instructors
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock +1
Interdisciplinary introduction to quantum information science (QIS) courses are proliferating at universities across the US, but the experiences of instructors in these courses hav…
Quantum Undergraduate Education and Scientific Training
Justin K. Perron, Charles DeLeone, Shahed Sharif +4
Currently, education and workforce training in quantum information science and technology (QIST) exists primarily at the graduate and postdoctoral levels, with few undergraduate ef…
Achieving a quantum smart workforce
Clarice D. Aiello, D. D. Awschalom, Hannes Bernien +29
Interest in building dedicated Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) education programs has greatly expanded in recent years. These programs are inherently convergent,…
Student reasoning about sources of experimental measurement uncertainty in quantum versus classical mechanics
Emily M. Stump, Courtney L. White, Gina Passante +1
Measurement uncertainty and experimental error are important concepts taught in undergraduate physics laboratories. Although student ideas about error and uncertainty in introducto…
Student evaluation of more or better experimental data in classical and quantum mechanics
Courtney L. While, Emily M. Stump, N. G. Holmes +1
Prior research has shown that physics students often think about experimental procedures and data analysis very differently from experts. One key framework for analyzing student th…
Characterizing and monitoring student discomfort in upper-division quantum mechanics
Giaco Corsiglia, Tyler Garcia, Benjamin P. Schermerhorn +3
We investigate student comfort with the material in an upper-division spins-first quantum mechanics course. Pre-lecture surveys probing students' comfort were administered weekly,…
Measuring geometric quantum discord using one bit of quantum information
G. Passante, O. Moussa, R. Laflamme
We describe an efficient DQC1-algorithm to quantify the amount of Geometric Quantum Discord present in the output state of a DQC1 computation. DQC1 is a model of computation that u…
Experimental detection of non-classical correlations in mixed state quantum computation
G. Passante, O. Moussa, D. A. Trottier +1
We report on an experiment to detect non-classical correlations in a highly mixed state. The correlations are characterized by the quantum discord and are observed using four qubit…
Geometric measures of entanglement and the Schmidt decomposition
M. E. Carrington, R. Kobes, G. Kunstatter +2
In the standard geometric approach, the entanglement of a pure state is , where is the angle between the entangled state and the closest separable state of products of…
Experimental approximation of the Jones polynomial with DQC1
G. Passante, O. Moussa, C. A. Ryan +1
We present experimental results approximating the Jones polynomial using 4 qubits in a liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance quantum information processor. This is the first expe…
Geometric measures of entanglement and the Schmidt decomposition
D. Ostapchuk, G. Passante, R. Kobes +1
In the standard geometric approach to a measure of entanglement of a pure state, is used, where is the angle between the state to the closest separable state of produ…
The Dynamics of Entanglement in the Adiabatic Search and Deutsch Algorithms
K. Choy, G. Passante, D. Ahrensmeier +4
The goal of this paper is to study the effect of entanglement on the running time of a quantum computation. Adiabatic quantum computation is suited to this kind of study, since it…