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Research Practice
CORE
12 units

Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers

Literature maps, paper reading, derivation reproduction, numerical experiments, reproducibility, lattice ideas, theory-experiment connection, scientific writing, ethics, preprints, and capstone design.

12 units18 hoursCORE
Open student course

Published syllabus

Course Units

Unit 1
90 min

Building a literature map

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

Course notes
3 objectives
Unit 2
90 min

Reading papers without getting lost

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

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3 objectives
Unit 3
90 min

Reproducing derivations

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

Course notes
3 objectives
Unit 4
90 min

Computational reproducibility

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

Course notes
3 objectives
Unit 5
90 min

Numerical simulation design

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

Course notes
3 objectives
Unit 6
90 min

Lattice simulations conceptually

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

Course notes
3 objectives
Unit 7
90 min

Connecting theory to experiment

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

Course notes
3 objectives
Unit 8
90 min

Research notebooks and Overleaf workflow

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

Course notes
3 objectives
Unit 9
90 min

Data, uncertainty, and honest plots

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

Course notes
3 objectives
Unit 10
90 min

Ethics and scientific claims

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

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3 objectives
Unit 11
90 min

Preprints, peer review, and revision

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

Course notes
3 objectives
Unit 12
90 min

Capstone proposal studio

Admin-authored unit for Quantum Research Methods & Frontiers.

Course notes
3 objectives