Physics 47100 Introduction to Atomic Physics
Day/Time: MW 9:00 - 10:20 am
Location: KPTC 105
Lecturer: Cheng Chin cchin@uchicago.edu
Graders: Jay Jachinowski jachinowski@uchicago.edu and Sarah McCusker smccusker@uchicago.edu
Office: GCIS 107
Office Hours: TuTh 11 am - noon
Discussion: Piazza
HW submission: Canvas
Class outline: 16 Lectures, 2 presentation sessions
Single Atom
Wk1 01/03 W 9:00~10:20 Atomic structure Budker 1.3 1.4 1.11
Wk2 01/08 M 9:00~10:20 Atom-field interaction HW1 Budker 2.1 2.4 3.1 3.2
Wk2 01/10 W 9:00~10:20 Application 1: Laser cooling and trapping Budker 6.1 6.2 6.3
Wk3 01/17 W 9:00~10:20 Application 2: Atomic interferometry HW2
Two Atoms
Wk4 01/21 M 9:00~10:20 Bloch sphere and Bloch vector
Wk4 01/23 W 9:00~10:20 Low energy scattering HW3
Wk5 01/29 M 9:00~10:20 Feshbach resonance
Wk5 01/31 W 9:00~10:20 Application 1: Ultracold molecules HW4 HW4_fig
Wk6 02/05 M 9:00~10:20 Application 2: Quantum logic gates
Many Atoms
Wk6 02/07 W 9:00~10:20 Second quantization HW5
Wk7 02/12 M 9:00~10:20 Bose-Einstein condensation: Gross-Pitaevskii equation
Wk7 02/14 W 9:00~10:20 Dynamics of BEC
Wk8 02/19 M 9:00~10:20 Spontaneous symmetry breaking HW6
Wk8 02/21 W 9:00~10:20 (Guest Lecture) Bose-Hubbard model
Special topics
Wk9 02/26 M 9:00~10:20 Student presentation by Claire
Wk9 02/28 W 9:00~10:20 Student presentation by Dana and Mona
Evaluation Problem sets and presentation/term paper
Recommended Textbooks
Atomic Physics, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball and D. P. DeMille
Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases, C.J. Pethick and H. Smith
Reading materials
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