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most citedA Review of Student Difficulties in Upper-Level Quantum Mechanics

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physics.ed-ph2015★ 12 cited

Developing an Interactive Tutorial on a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with Single Photons

Chandralekha Singh, Emily Marshman

We are developing a Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorial (QuILT) on a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with single photons to expose upper-level students in quantum mechanics courses t…

physics.ed-ph2015★ 16 cited

Developing an Interactive Tutorial on a Quantum Eraser

Emily Marshman, Chandralekha Singh

We are developing a quantum interactive learning tutorial (QuILT) on a quantum eraser for students in upperlevel quantum mechanics. The QuILT exposes students to contemporary topic…

physics.ed-ph2015★ 15 cited

Investigating Student Difficulties with Time dependence of Expectation Values in Quantum Mechanics

Emily Marshman, Chandralekha Singh

Quantum mechanics is challenging even for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. In the Schrödinger representation, the wave function evolves in time according to the time d…

physics.ed-ph2015★ 18 cited

Investigating Student Difficulties with Dirac Notation

Chandralekha Singh, Emily Marshman

Quantum mechanics is challenging even for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Dirac notation is a convenient notation used extensively in quantum mechanics. We have been…

physics.ed-ph2015★ 11 cited

Analogous Patterns of Student Reasoning Difficulties in Introductory Physics and Upper-Level Quantum Mechanics

Chandralekha Singh, Emily Marshman

Very little is known about how the nature of expertise in introductory and advanced courses compares in knowledge-rich domains such as physics. We develop a framework to compare th…

physics.ed-ph2015★ 14 cited

Student difficulties with quantum states while translating state vectors in Dirac notation to wave functions in position and momentum representations

Emily Marshman, Chandralekha Singh

We administered written free-response and multiple-choice questions and conducted individual interviews to investigate the difficulties that upper-level undergraduate and graduate…