Physics 430 & 631
Fall 2025

Quantum Optics and Atomics 

Course Materials:

• Week 0: 8/28                     Intro to Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics
  Syllabus
  Thursday, August 28 Overheads -- Introductory lecture
  Lecture 1, Thursday, August 28 Review of basics, semi-classical atom, Dipole radiation.
  
  Problem Set 1, due date: September 4 (typo fixed)
  
  
  
• Week 1: 9/2-4                     Coherence
  Lecture 2, Tuesday, September 2 Semi-classical atom, radiative damping, Rayleigh scattering, coherence.
  Lecture 3, Tuesday, September 4 Michelson interferometer, coherence length & time, 1st order coherence.
  
  Problem Set 2, due date: September 11