Physics 8.422
Atomic and optical Physics
(2007)
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Lecturers: |
Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle |
26-243 |
253-6815 |
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Prof. Isaac Chuang |
26-251 |
253-1692 |
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Assistants: |
Andrew Grier |
26-223 |
452-5092 |
agrier@mit.edu |
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David Leibrandt |
26-201 |
324-2367 |
dleibran@mit.edu |
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Patrick M Medley |
26-269 |
452-4431 |
medley@mit.edu |
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Gyu-Boong Jo |
26-253 |
253-7613 |
gyuboong@mit.edu |
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Andre Schirotzek |
26-255 |
253-2518 |
schiro@mit.edu |
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Secretary: |
Joanna Keseberg |
26-237 |
253-6830 |
j_k@mit.edu |
Lectures: Monday,
Wednesday, (sometimes Friday)
First day of classes: Wed, 2/7
Office hours: by appointment (just send an e-mail ….)
Main topics:
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Quantum states and dynamics of photons
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Photon-Atom interactions: basics and semiclassical approximations
· Photon-Atom
interactions: open system dynamics, optical Bloch equations
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Applications and limits of the optical Bloch equations: dressed atoms,
light force, decoherence
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Cold atoms, quantum states, and quantum dynamics: quantum algorithms and
protocols, ion traps, magnetic traps, evaporative cooling, Bose-Einstein
condensation
Recommended books Course requirements
Web site and course outline 2005
New: MIT Atomic Physics Wiki (certificates needed)
Assignments:
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due Friday 2/16 |
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due Wednesday 2/28 |
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due Wednesday 3/07 |
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due Wednesday 3/14 |
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due Friday 3/23 |
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due Wednesday 4/4 |
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due Wednesday 4/11 |
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due Wednesday 4/18 |
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due Wednesday 4/25 |
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due Wednesday 5/2 |
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Term paper |
due Wednesday 5/16 |
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Classes follow the
usual MIT Mon-Wed schedule with the following exceptions:
No class on Wed
2/14, Tue 2/20, Mon 4/23, Wed 5/9
Classes are
scheduled on the following Fridays:
2/16, 2/23, 3/2, 4/27, 5/11
Covered Topics
1. Introduction (L1-3)
1. Classical molasses and beam slowing notes
Handouts:
· Lecture Notes Download
· W.D. Phillips, Varenna notes Download
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S. Chu et al., Molasses Download
2. The basic Hamiltonian notes
Viewgraphs used in class: Download
Reading:
The discussion follows the appendix in Atom –Photon Interactions.
Please read pp. 621 – 643 Download
Further reading:
A 500-page derivation and discussion of the basic equations of QED can be found in
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Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude, Dupont-Roc,
Jaques, and Grynberg, Gilbert, Photons
& Atoms, Wiley-Interscience, 1997.
I would recommend consulting this book
whenever you want to know more about the “exact” formulation of the theory. I
am always amazed how easily you can open this book in the middle and still
understand the explanations.
2. Quantum light: states and dynamics (L4-8)
1. Photons and statistics notes
2. Non-classical light notes
3. Single photons notes
4. Entanglement notes
5. Interferometry and Metrology notes
6. Atom correlations and g(2) Lecture notes
Nature paper on 2007 experiment
Copies from Gordon Baym’s quantum mechanic
book on HBT experiment with atoms
3. Photon-atom interactions (L9-12)
1. Casimir force Lecture notes
Copies from Serge Haroche’s
summer school notes
Jaffe paper on Casimir force and zero-point
energy
2. Interaction processes between photons and atoms
This chapter is
based on the book Atom-Photon Interactions
1 Feynman diagrams
see pp. 15-21 and
Complement A_I
2 Absorption, emission, scattering
see pp. 67-93
3 Resonant scattering
see pp. 93-97 and pp. 226 ff.
3. Van der Waals Interaction
see pp. 121-126
: four pages course notes from Dan Kleppner
Physics Today paper by L.
Spruch (Nov. 1986, p. 37)
4. Single-photon single-atom: Cavity QED
4. Optical Bloch equations (L13-15)
1. Derivation notes
2. Solutions: transient and steady state notes
3. Absorbed energy API p. 369
4. Unraveling quantum open system dynamics notes
5. Light forces (L16-19)
1. Mean radiation forces API pp. 370 - 379
Further reading on friction force in a standing wave
C. Cohen-Tannoudji, Les Houches 1990, pp. 34-35
J.P. Gordon and A. Ashkin, PRA 21, 1606 (1980)
2. The dressed atom approach
3. Dipole forces within the dressed atom picture
Important paper:
J. Dalibard and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Opt. Soc. Am .B 2, 1707 (1985)
4. Spontaneous light force traps
Magneto-optical trap, Optical Earnshaw theorem
(Nice summary on both dipole traps and radiation pressure traps)
W.D. Phillips, Laser cooling and trapping of
neutral atoms, in Laser Manipulation of Atoms and Ions, edited by
Original papers:
Optical Earnshaw theorem (OET): Ashkin and Gordon
How to circumvent the OET: Pritchard et al.
Realization of the MOT: Raab et al.
6. Ion traps and quantum information (L20-23)
1. Laser cooling of trapped ions notes
2. Quantum control and trapped ions notes
3. Quantum computation and trapped ions notes
4. Quantum simulation and trapped ions
7. Techniques for ultralow temperatures (L24)
1. Sub-Doppler and Sub-Recoil cooling
2. Magnetic trapping
Further reading: W. K., D.S. Durfee, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, Varenna Lecture
Notes 1999, pp. 80-89
3. Evaporative cooling
Further reading:: W. Ketterle and N.J. van Druten,
Adv. At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37, 181-236 (1986). Relevant pages: pp. 181-193
Slides on magnetic trapping and evaporative cooling
8. Bose-Einstein condensation (L25-26)
Slides
Further reading: Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases, C.J. Pethick and H. Smith, selected pages
On Bogoliubov transformation and collective excitation: pp. 205-214
On nonlinear Schrödinger equation: pp. 146-156
On hydrodynamics: pp. 165-179
9. Mott insulator transition
10. Ultracold Fermi gases (L27)
Slides on MI
transition and BEC-BCS crossover in ultracold fermions
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