ECE 676BExperimental Quantum Engineering
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Engineering
ECE 676B as listed in the Winter 2026 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.
This course introduces basic experimental tools and techniques on which the main quantum computing platforms are based. The course topics will be covered through lectures and through hands on lab experiments and will include photon generation and detection; Rabi oscillations, coherence, and NMR; atom cooling and ion traps; low temperature physics; and Bell inequalities and two-qubit quantum tomography.
Prerequisites
None listed.
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
No course lists it as a requisite.
Check it elsewhere for Winter 2026
- Graduate Calendar, Winter 2026The archived entry
- Requirements for Winter 2026Waterloo’s requisite checker
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
Calendar versions
Graduate Calendar
- Winter 2025
- Spring 2025
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026 (shown here)
- Spring 2026 requisites changed
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2024 and earlier in the calendar archives