Physics 45200 Quantum Optics and Quantum Gases
Time: MW 09:00 -10:20 am
Office hour: TuTh 11am~12pm
Classroom: KPTC 103
Lecturer: Cheng Chin, cchin@uchicago.edu
Website: http://ultracold.uchicago.edu
Quantum Gases
Wk01 10/01 M 9:00~10:20 The holy grail – Bose-Einstein condensation
Wk01 10/03 W 9:00~10:20 Quantum gas vs. normal gas
Wk02 10/08 M 9:00~10:20 Atomic s-wave interactions
Wk02 10/10 W 9:00~10:20 Weakly interacting BEC: Gross-Pitaevski equation HW1
Wk03 10/15 M 9:00~10:20 Weakly interacting BEC: Bogoliubov transformation
Wk03 10/17 W 9:00~10:20 Cold collisions and Feshbach resonances
Wk04 10/22 M 9:00~10:20 Strongly interacting gas: Bosons vs. Fermions
Wk04 10/24 W 9:00~10:20 Ultracold molecules HW2
Wk05 10/29 M 9:00~10:20 Optical lattices HW1+Solution
Wk05 10/31 W 9:00~10:20 Bose-Hubbard model
Wk06 11/05 M 9:00~10:20 Superfluid-Mott insulator transition Midterm
Quantum Optics
Wk07 11/12 M 9:00~10:20 Inelastic and elastic (Rayleigh) scattering
Wk07 11/14 W 9:00~10:20 Light shifts and dressed atom picture
Wk07 11/16 F 9:00~10:20 Ramsey and Raman spectroscopy
Wk08 11/19 M 9:00~10:20 Coherent states and squeezed states
Wk08 11/21 W 9:00~10:20 Photon entanglement HW3 HW2+Solution Midterm+Solution
Wk09 11/26 M 9:00~10:20 Quantum teleportation
Wk09 11/30 F 9:00~10:20 Quantum computation based on linear optics HW4
Wk10 12/03 M 9:00~10:20 Final presentations
Wk10 12/05 W 9:00~10:20 Final presentations
Evaluation
Problem sets 50%
Midterm 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)
Related Colloquia:
Cheng Chin 10/18/2012: Physics Colloquium
Randy Hulet 11/29/2012: Physics Colloquium
Dan Stamper-Kurn 12/4/2012: JFI Colloquium