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Course Materials:
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Week 0:
1/20-22
Intro to Atomic Physics
Physics 404
and Physics 690-03 syllabus
Monday (1/20) overheads --
Introductory lecture
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Week 1:
1/25-29
Interference & First Order Coherence
Problem Set #1 due
Friday, Jan. 29
Wednesday
(1/27) overheads -- First order coherence
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Week 2:
2/1-5 The
two-level atom
Problem Set #2 due
Friday, Feb. 5
Monday (2/1)
overheads -- 2nd Order Coherence
Wednesday (2/3)
overheads -- Applications of g(2)
Friday (2/5)
overheads -- 5-level Rabi Flopping
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Week 3:
2/8-12 Dressed
Atom Theory and the AC Stark Shift
Problem Set #3 due Friday,
Feb. 12
Friday (2/12) overheads
-- Mollow triplet and laser dipole traps
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Week 4:
2/15-19 Bloch
Sphere, Spontaneous Emission
Problem Set #4 due Friday,
Feb. 19
Monday (2/15) overheads
-- Atomic clock
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Week 5:
2/22-26
Density Matrix, Resonance Fluorescence, and Monte Carlo Wavefunctions
In-class
worksheet for classical Monte Carlo
Friday
(2/26) overheads -- Monte Carlo Wavefuntions / Quantum Trajectories
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Week 6:
3/1-5
Atomic Structure, Angular Momentum, and Selection Rules
Week 6 problem set due
Monday, March 15
Monday
(3/1) overheads -- Review of Atomic Structure
Wednesday
(3/3) overheads -- Hyperfine Structure and Zeeman Shifts
Monday
(3/5) overheads -- Zeeman Shifts and Selection Rules
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Week 7:
3/15-19
Laser Cooling
Monday (3/15)
overheads -- E1 transition selection rules
Wednesday (3/17)
overheads -- Doppler cooling
Midterm on Friday, March 19.
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Week 8:
3/22-26
Laser Cooling and Trapping (continued)
Monday (3/22)
overheads -- Magneto-Optical Trap (MOT)
Wednesday (3/24)
overheads -- Cooling below the Doppler Limit
Friday
(3/26) overheads -- Resolved Sideband Cooling of Ions
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Week 9:
3/29-4/2
3-Level Atoms
Saturation
Spectroscopy Assignment
Friday, April 2: Guest lecture by Prof. Irina Novikova on Dark States and Slow
Light with 3-Level Atoms.
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Week 10:
4/5-4/9
Photons: Quantizing of Light
Monday, April
5 overheads -- Magnetic Trapping (continued) and Evaporative Cooling
Problem set due
Monday, April 12, 2010
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Week 11:
4/12-4/16
Photons: Quantized light and Coherent States
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Week 12:
4/19-4/23
Undergraduate Oral Presentations
Problem set due Monday,
April 26, 2010
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Week 13:
4/26-4/30
Second Quantization and Bose-Einstein Condensation
Friday, April 30 overheads
-- Bose-Einstein Condensation
The final exam for graduate students (PHYS 690-03) will be held in Millington
123 on Monday, May 10, 2-5pm.
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