Physics 23800 Atomic Physics
Day/Time: TuTh 9:30 - 10:50 am
Location: KPTC 103
Lecturer: Cheng Chin, cchin@uchicago.edu
Office: GCIS 107
Office Hours: TuTh 11 am - 12:30 pm
Class outline:
Q1: Precision Measurements (Class note 1, note 2, P&A paper)
Wk 1 10/02 Tu How precise can a measurement be?
Wk 1 10/04 Th Lecture 1: Atom-photon interactions (Foot: 7.1, 7.2)
Wk 2 10/09 Tu Lecture 2: Ramsey spectroscopy (1989 Prize) (Foot: 7.3, 7.4) HW1
Wk 2 10/11 Th Lecture 3: Atom interferometry
Wk 3 10/16 Tu P&A (Principle and applications): Atomic clock
Q2: How do you control atoms remotely? (note 3)
Wk 3 10/18 Th Lecture 4 : Radiation force (2018 Prize) (Foot: 7.5, 7.6)
Wk 4 10/23 Tu Lecture 5: Dipole force (Foot: 7.7,7.8, 9.5, 9.6) HW1 due HW2
Wk 4 10/25 Th Lecture 6: Full QED treatment (1997 Prize) (Cohen-Tanouji)
Wk 5 10/30 Tu P&A (Principle and applications): Optical Tweezer
Q3: How do we reach T = 1 nano-Kelvin? (note 4)
Wk 5 11/01 Th Lecture 6: Doppler cooling (Foot: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3) HW2due HW3 HW2Sol#3
Wk 6 11/06 Tu Mid-Term Solution
Wk 6 11/08 Th Lecture 7: Magneto-optical trap (1997 Prize) (Foot: 9.4,9.7)
Wk 7 11/13 Tu Lecture 8: Bose-Einstein condensation (2001 Prize) (Foot: 10.3, 10.4) HW3 due HW4
Wk 7 11/15 Th Recent research on optical cooling and trapping (Ignacio, Lin and Carl)
Q4: Quantum simulation and quantum computation
Wk 8 11/20 Tu Discussion: Realization of a quantum bit (Jon Siimon)
Wk 9 11/27 Tu Lecture 9: Quantum logic gates HW4due HW5
Wk 9 11/29 Th Lecture 10: Quantum simulation
Wk10 12/04 Tu Experiments on quantum simulation and quantum information (Jeronimo, Connor, Marie): HW5due on 12/6/2018
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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