> Instead [of the Bohr model], Morello uses a real-world example in his teaching — a material called a quantum dot, which is used in some LEDs and in some telev

> Instead [of the Bohr model], Morello uses a real-world example in his teaching — a material called a quantum dot, which is used in some LEDs and in some television screens. “I can now teach quantum mechanics in a way that is far more engaging than the way I was taught quantum mechanics when I was an undergrad in the 1990s,” he says. > Morello also teaches the mathematics behind quantum mechanics in a more computer-friendly way. His students learn to solve problems using matrices that they can represent using code written for the Python programming language, rather than conventional differential equations on paper. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30782678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30782678 : >> This "Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists" video https://youtu.be/F_Riqjdh2oM https://youtu.be/F_Riqjdh2oM explains classical and quantum operators as just matrices. What are other good references? Unfortunately the QuantumQ game doesn't yet have the matrix forms of the quantum logical operators in the (open source) game docs. Would be a helpful resource, in addition to the Quantum logic wikipedia page and numpy and/or SymPy without cirq: A Manim presentation demonstrating that quantum logical operator matrices are Bloch sphere rotations, are reversible, and why we restrict operators to the category of unitary transformations > His colleagues at the UNSW are also developing laboratory courses to give students hands-on experience with the hardware in quantum technologies. For example, they designed a teaching lab to convey the fundamental concept of quantum spin, a property of electrons and some other quantum particles, using commercially available synthetic diamonds known as nitrogen vacancy centres Some blue LEDs contain sapphire, which is even more macrostae entanglable than diamonds. Lol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356444 "The Qubit Game (2022)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34574791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34574791 : > Additional Q12 (K12 QIS Quantum Information Science) ideas?: