Dr Flarend, a former nuclear engineer, earned a Ph.D in curriculum and instruction from the Pennsylvania State University and has been a high school physics teacher for more than 20 years. Her research interests include how learners develop their understanding of our solar system, teachers' views on including climate science in core science courses, and how teachers learn new content and pedagogy. Dr. Flarend has over a decade of experience providing teacher professional development in physics including classical, nuclear, and quantum physics.

Dr Hilborn received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard in 1971. He served as a physics faculty member at Oberlin, Amherst, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of Texas at Dallas. He has had many decades experience doing quantum physics research in atomic, molecular, and optical physics and teaching quantum mechanics to undergraduate students. He is author of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (OUP 1994, 2000). He is currently the Associate Executive Officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers and principal investigator for several nation-wide physics education projects funded by the National Science Foundation.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Traditional Computing


• 3: Traditional Bits in New Clothes


• 4: Qubits and Quantum States


• 5: Quantum Measurements


• 6: Quantum Gates


• 7: Putting a Spin on Spin


• 8: My Basis, Your Basis


• 9: Multi-qubit Systems, Entanglement, and Quantum Weirdness


• 10: Quantum Circuits and Multi-qubit Applications


• 11: Quantum Computing Algorithms


• 12: More Quantum Algorithms


• 13: RSA Encryption and the Shor Factoring Algorithm


• 14: Fundamental Quantum Issues


• 15: Complexifying Quantum States


• 16: Present and Future QIS and QC