Physics 23800 Atomic Physics
Day/Time: TuTh 11:00am - 12:20pm
Location: KPTC 309
Lecturer: Cheng Chin, cchin@uchicago.edu
Office Hours: TuTh 1 - 2 pm on Zoom
Grader: Shu Nagata, nagatashu@uchicago.edu
Class outline:
Q1: Precision Measurements (Note 1, Note 2)
Wk 1 9/28 Tu Lecture 1: Classical and quantum measurement vide01
Wk 1 9/30 Th Lecture 2: Atom-photon interactions (Foot: 7.1, 7.2) video2
Wk 2 10/5 Tu Lecture 3: Ramsey spectroscopy (1989 Prize) (Foot: 7.3, 7.4) video3 HW1 HW1Sol
Wk 2 10/7 Th Lecture 4: Application: Atom interferometry video4
Q2: How do you control atoms remotely? (Note 3, Note 4)
Wk 3 10/12 Tu Lecture 5 : Radiation force (2018 Prize) (Foot: 7.5, 7.6) video5 HW1 due HW2
Wk 3 10/14 Th Lecture 6 : Dipole force (Foot: 7.7,7.8, 9.5, 9.6) video6
Wk 4 10/19 Tu Lecture 7: Full QED treatment video 7 HW3
Wk 4 10/21 Th Lecture 8: Spontaneous emission and QED video 8 HW2 due
Q3: How do we reach T = 1 nano-Kelvin? (Note 5, Note 6, Note 7)
Wk 5 10/26 Tu Lecture 9: Doppler cooling (Foot: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3) video 9
Wk 5 10/28 Th Lecture 10: Bose-Einstein condensation (2001 Prize) (Foot: 10.3, 10.4)
Wk 6 11/2 Tu Lecture 11: Gross-Pitaevskii equation 1 video 11 HW4
Wk 6 11/4 Th Mid-Term MTSol
Q4: New physics at nano-Kelvin temperatures (Note 8)
Wk 7 11/9 Tu Lecture 12: Gross-Pitaevskii equation 1
Wk 7 11/11 Th Lecture 13: Atomic scattering at low temperatures HW5
Wk 8 11/16 Tu Lecture 14: Modern research topic 1 Slides14 video 12
Wk 8 11/18 Th Lecture 15: Modern research topic 2 Slides15 video 13 HW6
Wk10 11/30 Tu Presentations (I)
Wk10 12/02 Th Presentations (II)
Textbook (Recommended) Atomic Physics by Christopher J. Foot, Oxford, 2005
Evaluation Problem sets: 1/3 Midterms: 1/3 Discussions+Presentations: 1/3
Homeworks and midterms Each homework contains 2~3 questions; late policy: -10% per day. Midterms contain 2~3 questions (1 hour, open book, no discussion).
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