QNT SCI 420Satellite Quantum Networking
Quantum Science and Technology · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Introduction to elements of quantum networking and quantum key distribution (QKD), mathematics of free-space optical communications, and pertinent elements of orbital mechanics, establishing satellite-based quantum networking as a practice.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended requisite: Physics 245.
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QNT SCI 420
- PHYSICS 245Quantum Computation
- PHYSICS 115AQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 115BQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 105BAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 115CQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields2 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)2 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity1 more beneath
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