Atomic and Optical Physics II
Offered By: Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MIT OpenCourseWare
Course Description
Overview
Syllabus
1. Introduction to Atomic Physics.
2. QED Hamiltonian.
3. Quantum description of light, Part 1.
3. Quantum description of light, Part 2.
4. Non-classical light, squeezing, Part 1.
4. Non-classical light, squeezing, Part 2.
5. Single photons, Part 1.
5. Single photons, Part 2.
6. Entangled states.
7. Metrology, shot noise and Heisenberg limit, Part 1.
7. Metrology, shot noise and Heisenberg limit, Part 2.
8. g(2) for atoms and light.
9. Diagrams for light-atom interactions.
10. van der Waals and Casimir interactions.
11. Casimir force.
12. Resonant interactions.
13. Derivation of optical Bloch equations.
14. Solutions of optical Bloch equations, Part 1.
14. Solutions of optical Bloch equations, Part 2.
15. Unraveling Open System Quantum Dynamics.
16. Light forces, Part 1.
16. Light forces, Part 2.
17. Dressed atom, Part 1.
17. Dressed atom, Part 2.
18. Techniques for ultralow temperatures.
19. Bose gases.
20. Fermi gases, BEC-BCS crossover.
21. Ion trapping and quantum gates.
Taught by
Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle
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