The 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ)
Welcome to our series of short weekly or bi-weekly videocasts at a popular level, aimed at a lay audience, to celebrate the centenary of Quantum Mechanics #IYQ2025, and popularise the revolutionary ideas and most significant developments in the field over the last 100 years, right up to the latest quantum technologies, including:
- Origins of Quantization
- Commutators and Uncertainty – Matrix Mechanics
- The Schrödinger equation – Wave Mechanics
- Superposition and Complementarity – Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
- The Copenhagen Interpretation – Classical and Quantum Probability
- The 1927 Solvay Conference, the Bohr-Einstein debates and Schrödinger's cat
- Hidden variables versus “Shut Up and Calculate” – John von Neuman and David Bohm
- Exclusion, Spin, Statistics and all that
- The Dirac equation
- Successes of Molecular Quantum Mechanics
- Lasers and Quantum Optics
- Transistors, Semiconductors and Superconductors
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Quantum Electrodynamics, Symmetry and development of the Standard Model
- Electron Correlation and the rise of Density Functional Theory
- John Bell's theorem – All Interpretations are Not Created Equal
- Superluminal “spooky action-at-a-distance”
- Entanglement, Qubits and Quantum Gates
- Quantum Key Cryptography and Quantum Teleportation
- Quantum Computing
Link to YouTube Videos
Episode 1 : An Act of Desperation - Max Planck and Birth of the Quantum
Episode 2 : Annum Mirabilis - the photoelectric effect