Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2023
Volume 68, Number 3
Las Vegas, Nevada (March 5-10)
Virtual (March 20-22); Time Zone: Pacific Time
Session AAA01: V: Physics Education and OutreachEducation Outreach Undergrad Friendly
|
Hide Abstracts |
Sponsoring Units: FED FOEP Chair: Susan Blessing, Florida State University Room: Virtual Room 1 |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 12:30PM - 12:42PM |
AAA01.00001: Outreach Programs Piloted by Physics Unlimited: Results and Theory of Change Pavel P Shibayev Physics Unlimited is a volunteer-based non-profit with the mission of fostering both collaborative and competitive mindsets in high school students worldwide by offering accessible enrichment programs in introductory and advanced physics. Our volunteers at universities across the US develop educational materials, notably problems for two types of competitions we host annually and curricula for learners underrepresented in physics, including those based at correctional facilities, or for those whose high schools do not offer general physics. Our ultimate goal is to democratize access to entry into the field and to provide a sustainable, supportive ecosystem for curious minds who wish to be a part of the global physics community regardless of their background. This talk will focus on the practical approaches we are spearheading to achieve our long-term vision. |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 12:42PM - 12:54PM |
AAA01.00002: Approaches for online outreach to increase interest in Science Magdalena Waleska Aldana Segura, Julian Felix Valdez Our multilevel regional program won the Reimagine Education Awards' Hybrid Education Silver award for the past two years as a result of the increasing prominence of online learning strategies. A key component of the aforementioned program is the Leon Lederman Seminar Series, which has given over 54 of the top experts in their fields to over 1,000,000 participants over the previous 2.5 years. Speakers from LIGO, Fermilab, Cambridge University, Institute of Advanced Studies, Harvard, Caltech, and other institutions have participated. |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 12:54PM - 1:06PM |
AAA01.00003: Physics Wonder Girls: Inspiring Passion for Physics through Renewable Energy and "Equity in Energy" Storytelling Roberto C Ramos Since 2013, the Physics Wonder Girls Summer Program has inspired passion for physics among middle-school aged girls. In 2021, as the world emerged from the pandemic, two 15-student cohorts were selected from a pool of students nominated by science teachers in the Philadelphia-South Jersey area on the basis of aptitude and interest in science to participate in the free week-long physics-intensive summer camp. The campers were led by the PI and a small team of primarily women STEM majors through interactive lessons on renewable energy. Camp activities included lab experiments on circuits that involved solar cells, switches, LEDs, rechargeable batteries, building solar boats, cars and solar cookers, exploring optics experiments, attending talks from physicists and food scientists and touring research labs and an industrial food manufacturing plant to show everyday applications of physics. A key activity is the camp's "Equity in Energy" Session which included individual storytelling about the lives and contributions of women in physics and energy science. Each camper was assigned a woman physicist to research the life and work - focusing on two of the 4 C's of Storytelling: Concept, Context, Conflict and Character, and to present to the crew and other campers in the form of a poster session. The program culminates in a Community Physics Showcase of the camper's projects and capstone presentations to a broad audience. We report on its products and impact on student appreciation of physics as a discipline and possible vocation. |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 1:06PM - 1:18PM |
AAA01.00004: Qubit by Qubit: Developing Female Interest in STEM Through Local Ecosystem Engagement Kiera Peltz
|
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 1:18PM - 1:30PM |
AAA01.00005: A Pedagogical Modular Quantum Photonics Lab Sahil Patel, Max Shen, Quynh Dang, Galan Moody The recent emergence of technologies based on quantum information science has led to a need for revamped quantum education and training that provides hands-on training with industry-relevant equipment and a deep understanding of how quantum mechanics concepts are leveraged by emerging technologies. Traditional courses on quantum mechanics provide minimal training of physical implementations of quantum concepts. We aim to address this gap by delivering a hands-on learning approach that reinforces key concepts and teaches students industry-transferable skills. We will present a quantum photonics-based experimental lab course that is automated, remotely accessible, and consists of several lab modules focusing on different key concepts in QIS. The course has shown to increase student learning in all selected topics of QIS, allowing conclusions to be drawn on effective learning strategies. In addition, the remote access and automation may be used to expand the reach of the learning modules to diverse communities and is a step towards removing the barriers of cost and expertise in the quantum education learning space. |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 1:30PM - 1:42PM |
AAA01.00006: SpinQ Triangulum: a commercial three-qubit desktop quantum computer Bei Zeng SpinQ Triangulum is the second generation of the desktop quantum computers designed and manufactured by SpinQ Technology. SpinQ's desktop quantum computer series, based on room temperature NMR spectrometer, provide light-weighted, cost-effective and maintenance-free quantum computing platforms that aim to provide real-device experience for quantum computing education for K-12 and college level. These platforms also feature quantum control design capabilities for studying quantum control and quantum noise. Compared with the first generation product, the two-qubit SpinQ Gemini, Triangulum features a three-qubit QPU, smaller dimensions (61 * 33 * 56 cm^3) and lighter (40 kg). Furthermore, the magnetic field is more stable and the performance of quantum control is more accurate. This paper introduces the system design of Triangulum and its new features. As an example of performing quantum computing tasks, we present the implementation of the Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd (HHL) algorithm on Triangulum, demonstrating Triangulum's capability of undertaking complex quantum computing tasks. SpinQ will continue to develop desktop quantum computing platform with more qubits. Meanwhile, a simplified version of SpinQ Gemini, namely Gemini Mini (https://www.spinq.cn/products-solutions/geminiMini), has been recently delivered. Gemini Mini is much more portable (20* 35 * 26 cm^3, 14 kg) and affordable for most K-12 schools around the world. |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 1:42PM - 1:54PM |
AAA01.00007: Measurement-based Quantum Computation as a Tangram Puzzle Ashlesha Patil, Yosef Jacobson, Don Towsley, Saikat Guha Measurement-Based Quantum Computing (MBQC) achieves quantum computation by performing a series of adaptive single-qubit measurements on an entangled cluster state. Our project is aimed at introducing MBQC to a wide audience ranging from high school students to quantum computing researchers through a Tangram puzzle with a modified set of rules, played on an applet. The rules can be understood without any background in quantum computing. The player is provided a quantum circuit, shown using gates from a universal gate set, which the player must map correctly to a playing board using polyominos. Polyominos, or `puzzle blocks' are the building blocks of our game. They consist of square tiles joined edge-to-edge to form different colored shapes. Each tile represents a single-qubit measurement basis, differentiated by its color. Polyominos rest on a square-grid playing board, which signifies a cluster state. We show that mapping a quantum circuit to MBQC is equivalent to arranging a set of polyominos---each corresponding to a gate in the circuit—on the playing board---subject to certain rules, which involve rotating and deforming polyominos. The player has to place polyominos on the playing board conforming to the rules. Any correct solution creates a valid realization of the quantum circuit in MBQC. A higher-scoring correct solution fills up less space on the board, resulting in a lower-overhead embedding of the circuit in MBQC, an open and challenging research problem. |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 1:54PM - 2:06PM |
AAA01.00008: Enhancing slideware for computational physics education Rohit Goswami The talk will focus on a novel approach taken towards teaching software engineering methods to students. For the most part there is a divide between "slideware" or things which fit on a slide, and actual code. By leveraging a combination of git based revision control and best practices of tracking provenance we believe providing links within each slide corresponding to a particular commit, students can follow along and also submit pull requests and branches, learning best practices while also collaboratively learning in the open. This approach has been piloted at a workshop aimed at teaching C++ to physics undergraduate and graduate students and covered modern project management, design and implemenation, along with technical content like the embedding of Python within C++ with PyBind11. The talk will focus on pedagogical challenges and mitigation strategems for the same. The GitHub repository for the concept is here: https://github.com/HaoZeke/2021_April_IOP_IntroductionToCpp_Part2 |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 2:06PM - 2:18PM |
AAA01.00009: Demonstration of the ensemble interpretation using quantum-like interference in pseudo random number generators Ramakrishna Podila The electron double slit experiment is often used as a prime example for introducing the so-called wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics. In statistical or ensemble interpretation (first introduced by Einstein and later championed by Ballentine [1]), a quantum state (pure or otherwise) represents an ensemble of similarly prepared systems. In case of a single electron, an ensemble will be the conceptual (infinite) set of all single electrons which have been subjected to some state preparation (e.g., filtering of electrons) technique by interaction with a suitable apparatus (e.g., Stern-Gerlach apparatus). A momentum (/position) eigenstate represents an ensemble whose members are single electrons each having the same momentum (/position) but distributed uniformly over all positions (/momenta). Previously, Tonomura et al. [2] experimentally demonstrated double slit interference pattern using electrons. Such experiments are expensive and hard to perform. Here, we will present a simple pseudo random number generator-based single-slit diffraction and double-slit interference experiments to demonstrate the ensemble interpretation. We will show that interference disappears upon measurement or upon not including definite particle trajectory history. |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 2:18PM - 2:30PM |
AAA01.00010: Survey research of trends of the number of new doctors in materials science: spread of new research methods such as computational materials science and materials informatics in materials science Yayoi Terada In recent years, it is expected to discover new materials, shorten the period of materials development, and reduce development costs by using computational materials science (CMS), materials informatics (MI). The necessity and importance of research and fostering researchers in these fields is increasing. However, there has been little quantitative analysis of trends in the number of fostering doctors in the CMS and MI fields in Japan. |
Follow Us |
Engage
Become an APS Member |
My APS
Renew Membership |
Information for |
About APSThe American Physical Society (APS) is a non-profit membership organization working to advance the knowledge of physics. |
© 2024 American Physical Society
| All rights reserved | Terms of Use
| Contact Us
Headquarters
1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3844
(301) 209-3200
Editorial Office
100 Motor Pkwy, Suite 110, Hauppauge, NY 11788
(631) 591-4000
Office of Public Affairs
529 14th St NW, Suite 1050, Washington, D.C. 20045-2001
(202) 662-8700