Physics 45200 Quantum Optics and Quantum Gases
Day/Time: MW 10:30 am - 11:50 am
Location: KPTC 105
Lecturer: Cheng Chin, cchin@uchicago.edu
Office Hours: TuTh 1 - 2 pm
Grader: Lauren Weiss and Henry Ando
Class outline:
Quantum control of single particles
Wk 1 9/28 W Lecture 1: Two-level system (photon) HW1
Wk 2 10/3 M Lecture 2: Two-level system (atom) HW2
Wk 2 10/5 W Guest Lecture 1 by Peter Zoller (ERC161): Quantum Simulation and Quantum Metrology
Wk 3 10/10 M Lecture 3 : Atom-photon interactions
Entanglement of two and more particles
Wk 3 10/12 W Lecture 4 : Spontaneous emission HW3
Wk 4 10/17 M Lecture 5: Bell's inequality and experimental tests
Wk 4 10/19 W Guest Lecture 2 by Jorg Schmiedmayer: Entanglement of Bose-Einstein condensates HW4
Quantum dynamics of many-body system
Wk 5 10/24 M Lecture 6: Coherent state
Wk 5 10/26 W Lecture 7: Bose-Einstein condensation HW5 v2
Wk 6 10/31 M Guest Lecture 3 by Thomas Bourdel: Gross-Pitaevskii equation
Wk 6 11/2 W Guest Lecture 4 by Thomas Bourdel: Quasi-particles HW6
Wk 7 11/7 M Lecture 8: Lattice field theory
Wk 7 11/9 W Lecture 9: Quantum phase transition HW7
Research Projects
Wk 8 11/14 M Research Topic (I): Quantum Chemistry
Wk 8 11/16 W Midterm
Wk 10 11/28 M Research Topic (II): Low energy scattering of atoms HW 8
Wk 10 11/30 W Presentations (I): Daohong Xu, Shu Nagata
Wk 11 12/5 M Presentations (II): Evan Yamaguchi, Jay Jachinowski
Wk 11 12/7 W Presentations (III): Dahlia Ghoshal, Muskan Singh, Shraddha Anand
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 Late policy: -10% per day. Midterms contain 2~3 questions (1 hour, open book, no discussion).
References for Quantum optics:
Misha Lukin, https://lukin.physics.harvard.edu/files/lukin/files/physics_285b_lectur…
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. Zuberi
Modern approach to quantum optics: S.L. Braunstein and P. van Loock, RMP 77 513 (2005)
Continuous-variable optical quantum-state tomography: RMP 81 299 (2009)
Linear optical quantum computing with photonic qubits: RMP 79 135 (2007)
References for 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)
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)
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