PHYS 514 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Tentative Schedule. Potential topics for TBA lectures include: cavity QED, ion traps, Rydberg atoms, optical lattices, atom-like emitters/artificial atoms, quantum simulation, quantum memory, quantum networking

 

Week Date Lecture Assignments
1
Monday
8/25
    
Tuesday
8/26
 Intro; Hydrogen  
Wednesday
8/27
    
Thursday
8/28
 Brief intro to transitions; Fine Structure  
Friday
8/29
    
2
Monday
9/1
    
Tuesday
9/2
 Helium  
Wednesday
9/3
    
Thursday
9/4
 Alkalis  
Friday
9/5
    
3
Monday
9/8
    
Tuesday
9/9
 Hyperfine structure  
Wednesday
9/10
    
Thursday
9/11
 Magnetic fields; Zeeman effects  
Friday
9/12
   HW 1 due
4
Monday
9/15
    
Tuesday
9/16
 Start dynamics, Two-level systems  
Wednesday
9/17
    
Thursday
9/18
 Electric dipole transitions   
Friday
9/19
    
5
Monday
9/22
    
Tuesday
9/23
 Rabi dynamics  
Wednesday
9/24
    
Thursday
9/25
 Ramsey spectroscopy, dressed states, adiabatic processes  
Friday
9/26
   HW 2 due
6
Monday
9/29
    
Tuesday
9/30

Quantization of the EM field, fock basis

  
Wednesday
10/1
    
Thursday
10/2

spontaneous emission, density matrices

  
Friday
10/3
    
7
Monday
10/6
    
Tuesday
10/7

open quantum systems, master equation, optical bloch equation

 
Wednesday
10/8
    
Thursday
10/9
 open quantum systems, master equation, optical bloch equation continued  
Friday
10/10
   HW 3 due
8
Monday
10/13
    
Tuesday
10/14

saturation/radiative broadening, 3 level atoms

  
Wednesday
10/15
    
Thursday
10/16

doppler broadening (Max Gold lecturing)

  
Friday
10/17
    
9
Monday
10/20
    
Tuesday
10/21
 MOTs and light shifts  
Wednesday
10/22
    
Thursday
10/23

sub-Doppler cooling

  
Friday
10/24
  

HW 4 due

Paper approval due
10
Monday
10/27
    
Tuesday
10/28
 optical traps and evaporative cooling  
Wednesday
10/29
    
Thursday
10/30
 Finish laser cooling  
Friday
10/31
    
11
Monday
11/3
    
Tuesday
11/4
 TBA  
Wednesday
11/5
    
Thursday
11/6
 TBA  
Friday
11/7
   HW 5 due
12
Monday
11/10
    
Tuesday
11/11
 TBA  
Wednesday
11/12
    
Thursday
11/13
 TBA  
Friday
11/14
   Talk abstract due
13
Monday
11/17
    
Tuesday
11/18
 TBA  
Wednesday
11/19
    
Thursday
11/20
 TBA  
Friday
11/21
   HW 6 due
14
Monday
11/24
    
Tuesday
11/25
 NO CLASS  
Wednesday
11/26
    
Thursday
11/27
 NO CLASS  
Friday
11/28
    
15
Monday
12/1
    
Tuesday
12/2
 Presentations  
Wednesday
12/3
    
Thursday
12/4
 Presentations  
Friday
12/5
    
16
Monday
12/8
    
Tuesday
12/9
 Presentations  
Wednesday
12/10
    
Thursday
12/11
    
17 Final Information