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Physics 404 and 690-03
Spring 2012
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Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics
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Course Materials:
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Week 0:
1/18-20
Intro to Atomic Physics
Physics 404
and Physics 690-03 syllabus
Monday (1/18) overheads --
Introductory lecture
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Week 1:
1/23-27
Semi-Classical Model of Atom-Light Interactions
Problem Set #1 due
Friday, Feb. 3
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Week 2:
1/30-2/3
Classical Coherence Theory of Light
Problem Set #2 due
Friday, Feb. 17
Wednesday
(2/1) overheads -- Mode-locked lasers, 1st order coherence, and intensity
fluctuations
Friday (2/3)
overheads -- 2nd Order Coherence
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Week 3:
2/7-11
2-Level Atoms
Monday (2/6)
overheads -- 2nd order coherence applications
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Week 4:
2/13-17
Dressed Atom Theory
Problem Set #3 due
Friday, Feb. 24
Monday (2/13)
overheads -- 5-level Rabi-flopping
Friday (2/17) overheads
-- Mollow triplets and optical dipole laser traps
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Week 5:
2/20-24
Spontaneous Emission
Problem Set #4 due
Friday, Mar. 2
Wednesday (2/22)
overheads -- Atomic clocks
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Week 6:
2/27-3/2 Density
Matrix, Optical Bloch Equations, and Resonance Fluorescence
Problem Set #5 due
Friday, March 23
Friday (3/2)
overheads -- absorption imaging
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Week 7:
3/12-16
Quantum Monte Carlo Wavefunctions and Quantum Trajectories
Monday
(3/12) overheads -- Introduction to Classical Monte Carlo
Classical Monte
Carlo worksheet, Monday (3/12)
Wednesday
(3/14) overheads -- Quantum Monte Carlo (quantum trajectories)
Midterm on Friday, March 16.
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Week 8:
3/19-23 Multi-Level
Atoms and Selection Rules
Monday
(3/19) overheads -- Review of Atomic Structure
Wednesday
(3/21) overheads -- Hyperfine Structure and Zeeman Shifts
Friday (3/23)
overheads -- Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients and E1 Selection Rules
Problem Set #6 due
Friday, Apr. 6
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Week 9:
3/26-30 Laser
Cooling and Trapping I
Monday (3/26)
overheads -- E1 selection rules, optical pumping, effective 2-level atoms, and
Doppler cooling
Wednesday (3/28)
overheads -- The Magneto-Optical Trap (MOT)
Guidelines
for final paper and oral presentation
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Week 10:
4/2-6 Laser
Cooling and Trapping II
Monday (4/2)
overheads -- Sisyphus cooling
Friday (4/6)
overheads -- Evaporative cooling
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Week 11:
4/9-4/13 Photons
I: Quantized light and Fock States
Problem set #7 due
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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Week 12:
4/16-4/20 Photons
II: Quantized light, Coherent States, and Squeezing
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Week 13:
4/23-4/27 Second
Quantization and Bose-Einstein Condensation
Student presentations: Monday, April 23, 2012.
Final paper due date: Friday, April 27, 2012.
Friday, April 27
overheads -- Bose-Einstein Condensation
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