Physics 45200 Quantum Optics and Quantum Gases
Time: MW 09:00 -10:20 am
Office hour: TuTh 11am~12pm
Classroom: KPTC 105
Lecturer: Cheng Chin, cchin@uchicago.edu
Website: http://ultracold.uchicago.edu
Quantum Gases
Wk01 09/25 M 9:00~10:20 The holy grail – Bose-Einstein condensation
Wk01 09/27 W 9:00~10:20 Quantum gas vs. normal gas HW1
Wk02 10/02 M 9:00~10:20 Weaking interacting BEC: Gross-Pitaevskii equation
Wk02 10/04 W 9:00~10:20 S-wave scattering length HW2
Wk03 10/09 M 9:00~10:20 Bogoliubov transformation
Wk03 10/11 W 9:00~10:20 Second quantization HW3 Solution
Wk04 10/16 M 9:00~10:20 Cold collisions
Wk04 10/18 W 9:00~10:20 Lab Tour
Wk04 10/23 W 9:00~10:20 Feshbach resonance
Wk05 10/25 M 9:00~10:20 Optical lattices HW4 Solution
Wk06 10/30 M 9:00~10:20 Presentations 1 + Midterm
Quantum Optics
Wk06 11/01 W 9:00~10:20 Atom-photon interactions
Wk07 11/06 M 9:00~10:20 Optical Bloch equation and Rabi and Ramsey spectroscopy HW5 Solution
Wk07 11/08 W 9:00~10:20 Dressed atom picture
Wk07 11/10 F 9:00~10:20 Autler-Towns splitting and electromagnetically induced transparency HW6 Solution
Wk08 11/13 M 9:00~10:20 Entanglement
Wk08 11/15 W 9:00~10:20 No Class
Wk09 11/20 M 9:00~10:20 Quantum teleportation HW7 Solution
Wk09 11/22 W 9:00~10:20 No Class
Wk10 11/27 M 9:00~10:20 Cavity QED and spontaneous emission
Wk10 11/29 W 9:00~10:20 Class review and discussion
Wk10 12/01 F 9:00~10:20 Presentation 2 Final
Wk10 12/04 M 9:00~10:20 Presentation 3
Evaluation
Problem sets 40%
Midterm 20%
Final 20%
final paper/presentation 30%
Supporting texts
Quantum gases:
Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases by C. J. Pethick and H. Smith
Bose-Einstein Condensation by L. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari
G.-P. equation and Bogoliubov approximation, A.J. Leggett, New J. Phys. 5 103 (2003)
Review papers:
The cold atom Hubbard toolbox, D. Jakscha and P. Zoller, Annals of Physics 315 52 (2005)
Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases, F. Dalfovo, S. Giorgini, L.P. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari, RMP 71 463 (1999)
Theory of ultracold atomic Fermi gases, S. Giorgini, L.P. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari, RMP 80 1215 (2008)
Many-body physics with ultracold gases, I. Bloch, J. Dalibard, and W. Zwerger, RMP 80 885 (2008)
Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases, C. Chin, R. Grimm, P. Julienne, and E. Tiesinga, RMP 82 1225 (2010)
Quantum optics:
Mesoscopic Quantum Optics by Y. Yamamoto and A. Imamoglu
Quantum Optics by D. F. Walls and G. J. Milburn
Electromagnetic Noise and Quantum Optical Measurements by Hermann A. Haus
Quantum Optics by M. Scully and S. Zubairy
Review papers:
Modern approach to quantum optics: S.L. Braunstein and P. van Loock, RMP 77 513 (2005)
Photon echos: I.D. Abella, N.A. Kurnit, and S.R. Hartmann, Phys. Rev. 141 391 (1966)
Continuous-variable optical quantum-state tomography: RMP 81 299 (2009)
Linear optical quantum computing with photonic qubits: RMP 79 135 (2007)
Research papers:
Quantum gas
Quantum optics