Physics 8.421 Spring 2020
ATOMIC AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
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Lecturer: |
Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle |
26-243 |
253-6815 |
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Prof. Isaac Chuang |
26-251 |
253-1692 |
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Assistants: |
Michael Alan Cantara |
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Sergio Hiram Cantu |
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Zeyang Li |
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Yiqi Ni |
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Cedric Chinua Wilson |
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Secretary: |
Joanna Keseberg |
26-237 |
253-6830 |
j_k@mit.edu |
Lectures:
Mondays, Wednesdays1:00-2:30pm via Zoom
First day of classes: Mon, 2/3
WK office hours: Tue 1:30-2:30 or by appointment (just send an e-mail), starting 2/11
TA office hours:
Fridays 1:30 – 2:30 via Zoom
TAs for module 3: Michael and Cedric
TAs for module 4: Cedric and Zeyang
TAs for module 5: Zeyang and Sergio
Important links:
Residential MITx site for 8.421 with lecture videos and online problems
https://lms.mitx.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITx+8.421r+2020_Spring/
Atomic Physics Wiki (serves as online text book)
temporary access gate: username = bloch, password = theorem
Stellar Web Site (for grades and term paper submissions)
http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/8/sp20/8.421/
Course
info and calendar
Recommended
books
Course requirements (updated, no midterm quiz)
Web Site for 2016 Web Site for 8.422 (2017)
Current assignments: (old assignments are at the end of the page)
The due dates on this page are the valid ones. If the MITx page or other pages show different due dates, ignore those.
Assignements for Video Lectures: You should watch the video lectures before the disussion sessions where I assume that you are familiar with the material of the lectures.
Feedback questionnaire: https://forms.gle/W56sVGfXgzd3m1QRA
Mon, 5/11: last class, term paper due
Optional PSet on Superradiance in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (will receive extra credit if submitted by Fri, 5/15)
background material on the derivation of the four-wave mixing Hamiltonian pdf
Online version PSet M5.PS3
(both versions have the same questions)
Projected Lecture Write-ups (from 2014)
Module 1: Resonance
Module 2: Atoms External fields
Module 3: Atom-light
interaction
Module 4: Line
broadening Two-photon
processes
Module 5: Coherence
Papers for further reading
Module 1: Nuclear clock
Heisenberg limit: Beyond Heisenberg L. Universality of HL T^3 atom interferometer
Module 2: Dirac equation Zitterbewegung
Lamb shift review Bethe and Salpeter book
Lamb shift in two-level system Paper1 Paper2
Spherical tensors Wiki article on Wigner-Eckart theorem (worth reading)
write-up on electronic structure and magnetic moments of lanthanides
Module 3: Einstein 1917 paper pdf
Dan Kleppner’s Phys. Today column on Einstein’s paper pdf
Shift of center of light emission due to orbital angular momentum of the photon: paper
Module 4: Paper on Bragg spectroscopy (Doppler broadening in a BEC)
Paper on Standing Wave vs. Two Travelling Waves
Module 5: Lounis and Cohen-Tannoudj paper on Fano profile pdf
Dicke paper on Superradiance pdf
Superradiant Rayleigh Scattering from a Bose-Einstein Condensate pdf
Dicke: The Coherence Brightened Laser pdf
entanglement of many atoms by a single photon Reichel group Vuletic group
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Old
assignments:
Wed, 2/5:
get familiar with the interface, watch the following lectures and do the embedded
concept questions: Resonance and HO of M1.1
Before-class questions: https://forms.gle/VLRWYcHfmXdJnpHu6
Mon, 2/10:
Finish Videos on Classical Resonance, M1.1
Do PSet M1.PS1 (very little, mainly to try out the interface)
Before-class questions: https://forms.gle/z7NYBKQpL6qbR6uq5
Wed, 2/12
Videos M1.2
Before-class questions: https://forms.gle/hH4fWzTiqavxv4gf7
Tue, 2/18 (which is Monday schedule for MIT)
PSet due: M1.PS2
Videos M1.3
Before-class questions: https://forms.gle/sgLw19XJJpSwW67s5
Wed, 2/19
Videos M2.1
Before class questions: https://forms.gle/kF9fzDjjcPNzXF4XA
Mon, 2/24
PSet due: M1.PS3
Videos M2.2
Before class questions: https://forms.gle/k4nsT6P7GDND7VbNA
Wed, 2/26
None (TA led discussion)
Mon, 3/2
PSet due: M2.PS1, M2.PS2b
Videos: M2.3 Atoms in magnetic fields, Review (14 concept questions)
Before class questions: https://forms.gle/P6JJHDbbedG9E3My8
Wed, 3/4
Videos: M2.3 Atoms in electric fields
Before class questions: https://forms.gle/TzSHaF2jFQhZU47x7
Mon, 3/9
M2, PSet 3
Videos: M3.1 Part 1: Symmetry and Selection Rules
Before class questions: https://forms.gle/oUxSHcXEwU9BUHZw7
Wed, 3/11
Videos: M3.1 Part 2: Atom light interactions: Broadband versus narrowband excitation
Before class questions #10: https://forms.gle/dKjcDWHsJJkc8j1f7
Mon, 3/30
No new video assignment and before class questions: We will wrap up previous topics.
Paper Homework Module 2 NOW DUE MONDAY 3/30
Wed, 4/1 Videos M3.2 Quantized Field
Before class questions #11: https://forms.gle/ThVPPv4vzEyzLNzR8
Thu, 4/2: PSet M3.PS1
Mon, 4/6 Videos M3.3
Before class questions #12: https://forms.gle/xQquSEtJiEQNzXpw5
PSet M3.PS2
Wed, 4/8 Videos 4.1
Before class questions #13: https://forms.gle/5UX7W5cTtUbfHHnT8
Thu, 4/9: Pset M3.PS3
Mon, 4/13 TA led discussion, no video assignment, no pre-class questions
Paper Homework Module 3 due Solutions
Wed, 4/15 Videos 4.2
Before class questions #14: https://forms.gle/btpjffGoCVGmstqm9 Answers
PSet M4.PS1
Mon, 4/20 Patriot’s Day vacation
Tue, 4/21: Paper Homework Module 4 due
Wed, 4/22 Videos 4.3
Before class questions #15 https://forms.gle/dtLMHSmFditdcDuGA
Thu, 4/23: PSet M4.PS2
Mon, 4/27 Videos M5.1
Before class questions #16 https://forms.gle/xcxk6Nb1Y9kdBdNeA
PSet M4.PS3
Wed, 4/29 Videos M5.2 Part 1 (STIRAP, LWI)
Before class questions #17 (sorry for the late posting) https://forms.gle/1aQCPYzj1KNBqPnJ8
Fri, 5/1: PSet M5.PS1 (very short)
Mon, 5/4 Videos M5.2 Part 2 (EIT, slow light)
Before class questions #18 https://forms.gle/f8eB2ULKjxAiuJCcA
Wed, 5/6 Videos M5.3
Before class questions #19 https://forms.gle/HvExDr4aLCHeGo7EA
PSet M5.PS2